Business Adoption Taskforce Lead

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About The Role

As our Business Adoption Lead, you’ll play a key role in helping Engineers Australia bring meaningful transformation to life. Working across the Transformation Program and broader change agenda, you’ll lead the planning and delivery of business adoption activities that support people to confidently embrace new systems, processes and ways of working. This includes shaping change, communications, learning, workforce readiness and stakeholder engagement to ensure our teams are informed, prepared and supported. Acting as a trusted advisor to executives and leaders, you’ll help build ownership across the business, drive readiness and embed sustainable behaviour change that delivers real outcomes and benefits for our members, people and organisation. This is an 18-month fixed term opportunity.

Location

Flexible with a preference for Melbourne, Brisbane or Canberra

In This Role You Will

• Establish and lead Engineers Australia’s Business Adoption capability, supporting the MCX Program and broader transformation initiatives.
• Build organisational change and adoption capability, while leading and developing Business Adoption team members and seconded resources.
• Shape the enterprise change and adoption approach, including the transformation narrative, change story and coordinated adoption activities across workstreams.
• Partner with executives and senior leaders to build stakeholder commitment, sponsor visibility, leadership alignment and ownership of adoption outcomes.
• Lead business readiness, change impact assessments and adoption planning across the transformation program.
• Provide adoption reporting, insights and recommendations, while tracking readiness, engagement, adoption and benefits metrics to support benefits realisation.

Here’s What We’re Looking For

• Extensive experience leading enterprise-wide business adoption, transformation and organisational programs.
• Strong ability to place people at the centre of change, translating strategy into practical actions that build readiness, commitment and adoption.
• Proven experience establishing adoption capabilities, frameworks, change narratives and business readiness approaches.
• Strong background supporting enterprise transformation including technology implementations.
• Exceptional executive stakeholder management, influencing and coaching skills, with experience enabling senior leaders as change sponsors.
• Demonstrated capability leading multidisciplinary teams, stakeholder engagement, communications, workshops and adoption risk management.
• Please refer to the supporting documents to review the full success profile and measures of success in this role.

Why work for Engineers Australia?

• People are at the heart of what we do and why we do it.
• Enjoy competitive remuneration and salary packaging that recognises your expertise and contributions
• Generous paid leave options including 15 days of Personal Leave and 3 days of Life Leave
• Achieve a healthy work-life balance with hybrid working model, ensuring your personal well-being complements your professional fulfillment
• Unlock career growth prospects, as we invest in you and provide avenues for advancement in EA.
• A diverse, inclusive, and supportive team culture that supports you to lead and achieve
• Proud AWEI Bronze Employer Award winner (2023–2029), championing a safe and inclusive workplace for LGBTQ employees.

Ready to apply?

Ready to make your pitch? Click ‘Apply Now’ to submit your resume and a cover letter by COB 07 August 2026.

For this role, your cover letter matters — we want to hear why this opportunity excites you, the transformation experience you’ll bring, and how you’ll help shape successful business adoption at Engineers Australia. This position is subject to both a National Police Check and Reference Check.

Diversity, Inclusion And Your Privacy

Engineers Australia embraces diversity, inclusion and belonging and are committed to building a team that represents the communities that we live in and creating a safe inclusive environment for our people. We are a flexible workplace, please talk to us about your flexible working needs during our recruitment process. Our commitment to inclusivity means that we will work with you to ensure that your experience with us is accessible and welcoming. If you need any reasonable accommodation to fully participate in the job application, interview process, or to perform essential functions of the role, please know that we are here to support you. Please feel free to reach out to our Talent Team at [email protected] , our dedicated point of contact for all accommodation-related matters. At Engineers Australia, we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential for our success. We welcome applications from everyone, including people with disabilities, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTI community, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other culturally diverse backgrounds. We look forward to welcoming candidates from all backgrounds and providing necessary support where needed to ensure a level playing field for all applicants. Please visit Engineers Australia’s website to view our Privacy Policy in relation to the collection of candidate information: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/privacy-policy

Thank you for considering a career with us.