About the Organisation

Redland City Council is a progressive local government organisation, situated on the naturally wonderful Redlands Coast near Brisbane, home to the crystal blue waters of Southern Moreton Bay with 335km of coastline, beautiful hinterland, and coastal villages. The region enjoys a strong heritage, connections to the oldest living culture on Earth, with island gems just a short hop from Brisbane.

With a current population of almost 160,000 and strong population growth forecasts, the Council is forward thinking, engaged and focussed on enriching community lifestyles operating under the four principles of sustainability of balancing decisions through consideration of environmental, community, economic and governance impacts. For an overview of Council’s Vision, Mission, and Values, please click the below link:

https://www.redland.qld.gov.au/info/20193/our_organisation/339/our_vision_mission_and_values   

About the Position

The Chief Executive Officer will be primarily responsible for leading and driving the future success of Redland City Council (Council) through visionary, inspiring and strategic leadership with a focus on safety, performance, and continuous improvement. Specifically, this will involve development of short and long-term strategies, policies, plans as set out in Council’s Corporate Plan and includes leading more than 1,000 employees across diverse departments and a geographically dispersed workforce.

Critical to your success will be delivering exceptional customer experience and cost-effective services to the Redland’s community in a manner that is transparent, accountable, and compliant with relevant legislation, laws, regulations, and policies. In addition, the CEO will collaborate and provide advice to the Mayor and Councillors to achieve organisational objectives by communicating a clear vision in a compelling and meaningful way.

Furthermore, as CEO you will review, develop, and implement strategic initiatives focused on financial sustainability, essential services to the community, delivery of critical and legacy infrastructure projects and stakeholder management with key government, business, and community groups.

About the Person

We are seeking a highly experienced CEO (or equivalent) who has overseen a large and complex organisation delivering a diverse range of services. You will possess transformational experience reviewing and implementing operating models to deliver bespoke services to the community and have a strong understanding of contemporary workplace dynamics to maximise employee productivity and satisfaction levels.

It is essential you have demonstrated high levels of commercial thinking across revenue generation opportunities and cost management practices to achieve financial sustainability objectives and excellent stakeholder management and networking skills across three levels of government, council investment corporation, community and business groups. You will be a highly resilient, focused, visionary and performance orientated leader with a track record of exceeding financial and operational metrics.

To request a comprehensive candidate pack, please email tturner@sharpandcarter.com.au quoting reference number: 1558573, or to arrange a confidential phone briefing, please contact Tim Turner on 0414 548 052.

Applications close Friday 10th January 2025.