Careers at TAFE NSW

TAFE NSW Life-Changing Careers

Strategy Lead

Location negotiable across NSW (subject to campus availability) 

Permanent Full-time

$230,530 salary package - includes base salary ($203,530), plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

At TAFE NSW, we are dedicated to life-changing impact.

That’s why we offer world-class training and education that delivers the skills needed for the jobs of today and tomorrow.

Life-changing impact starts with an incredible team that sees their career as an opportunity to transform someone’s world. Whether that’s inspiring students, supporting each other, or helping our communities and industries flourish. 

We live by TAFE NSW values: Customer Focus, Integrity, Collaboration, and Excellence. They define who we are, how we work and inspire our performance.   

About the role

As the Strategy Lead within TAFE NSW’s Digital Solutions Group, you will shape and drive an enterprise‑wide strategic planning capability that ensures our technology ecosystem remains contemporary, future‑focused and aligned to organisational priorities. You’ll lead the development and continual enhancement of digital strategies and roadmaps, provide high‑quality insights to guide technology decision‑making, and monitor emerging innovations to inform TAFE’s direction in a rapidly evolving environment.

A key part of your remit will be partnering with leaders across Digital Solutions and the wider business to ensure strategies are clearly communicated, effectively implemented and measured against meaningful performance indicators. You’ll influence decision‑makers, steward governance forums, and bring together diverse stakeholders around a unified strategic vision that supports exceptional outcomes for students, staff and the NSW community.

About You 

You are a strategic thinker with the ability to turn complexity into clarity and bring people on the journey with you. You understand the challenges shaping today’s technology landscape and can confidently advise on how emerging innovations can drive value within a large, dynamic organisation like TAFE NSW. Your communication and influencing skills are exceptional—you build strong relationships, create alignment across diverse groups, and inspire others to work collaboratively toward common goals.

You are proactive in ensuring strategies remain current, outcomes‑focused and evidence‑based, and you’re skilled at evaluating whether objectives are being met. Highly regarded will be your experience within education, government agencies such as NSW Treasury, or similarly complex public sector environments, along with your ability to navigate ambiguity with resilience, professionalism and a customer‑centred mindset.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Degree qualification in related field OR equivalent skills, knowledge and experience.
• Understanding of business architecture principles and methods and experience in the use of capability models and developing roadmaps.
• Experience working in multiple Digital Solutions Group competencies – PMO, Operations (Run), Application Development (Build), Enterprise Architecture, Security Architecture and/or design.
• Experience in large, geographically disparate Digital Solutions Group environments at scale.

Highly Regarded:

• Demonstrated experience within the education or government agency environment.
• Experience working with on Business Cases and Policy proposals to seek government fundings.

To find out more about the role, click to view the  Position Description.

Our commitment to Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion

We are committed to creating a culturally safe and accessible workplace where dignity, trust, respect, and the promotion of diversity and inclusion are valued, so you can safely bring your whole self to work and connect with your community through our many diverse employee networks.

If you require an adjustment in the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor listed below.

A career of life-changing impact awaits you. Apply now!

Applications close 11.55pm AEDT Thursday 29 January 2026

To apply for this role, click on 'apply now' and provide:

• Your current resume
• Copies of your qualifications, where applicable, (upload as one PDF file). Certified copies preferred; these will be required if successful for the role.
• Response to one targeted question when prompted in the application form (max 300 words)

TARGETED QUESTION:   Please describe your experience in developing policy proposals and business cases to secure funding for strategic initiatives. In your response, include an example of a proposal or business case you led — outlining your approach, key stakeholders involved, strategic alignment and the measurable impact or outcome achieved.

General recruitment and adjustment enquiries: contact Ravinder Mansfield, Talent Acquisition Advisor, via email: Ravinder.mansfield1@tafensw.edu.au or tel: (02) 7921 2973.

Role-specific enquiries: contact name, Muhammad Azam, Director Strategy Enterprise & Architect via email: muhammad.azam2@tafensw.edu.au

For helpful insights into preparing your application, TAFE NSW’s recruitment process, and getting interview ready, read through our Application Process and the interactive Capability Application Tool.  

This is a child-related position. A Working with Children Check is a prerequisite for anyone in child-related work. It involves a national criminal history check and review of findings of workplace misconduct. 

To be eligible for positions at TAFE NSW, you need to be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident of Australia or a New Zealand citizen with a current New Zealand passport.

A talent pool, valid for 18 months, may be created for this position, and position(s) of the same classification that subsequently becomes vacant, may be filled via this recruitment. 

Location is negotiable across our TAFE NSW campuses. Please note your preferred campus location is not guaranteed and is subject to campus availability at the time of offer. 

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