Full Time Principal Manager, Data Capability Planning, Change and Adoption (DSAD) Jobs, in Skills & Workforce Development Agency (SWDA) - Maukerja

What The Role Is

This role reports to the Deputy Director (Data Strategy and Capabilities Building) and leads organisation-wide Data & AI capability planning, with a strong focus on driving adoption and sustained use across the organisation. The role is accountable for translating Data & AI strategy into tangible adoption outcomes, by designing and executing approaches that embed Data & AI into day-to-day work.

What You Will Be Working On

Key responsibilities include:

Adoption Strategy & Delivery

• Lead organisation-wide Data & AI capability planning and adoption efforts aligned to enterprise priorities
• Translate strategy into clear adoption approaches that drive usage and behavioural change
• Identify barriers to adoption and implement targeted interventions (e.g. pilots, campaigns, initiatives) to improve uptake
• Track adoption outcomes (e.g. participation, usage, impact) and refine approaches based on results
  
  

Adoption Design

• Develop clear and compelling adoption propositions for different stakeholder groups, articulating relevance and value
• Design approaches that build momentum and participation (e.g. champions networks, communities of practice, targeted engagement efforts)
• Shape how Data & AI is positioned and communicated across the organisation to drive understanding and interest
  
  

Portfolio & Stakeholder Management

• Oversee a portfolio of capability and adoption initiatives, ensuring alignment and scalability across the organisation
• Work across technical, strategy, and programme teams to bridge capability development and actual adoption outcomes
• Engage senior stakeholders to drive ownership, prioritisation, and sustained participation Support transition of initiatives from exploration into operational use
  
  

Planning & Reporting

• Provide planning and coordination across capability and adoption workstreams
• Track progress, risks, dependencies, and adoption outcomes for management reporting
• Support prioritisation and resource alignment across initiatives
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• At least 9 years of experience in transformation, change, adoption, or digital/data roles
• Demonstrated experience driving adoption or behaviour change initiatives at organisational level
• Experience designing and implementing engagement or capability-building initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to operate across technical and non-technical contexts
• Comfortable working in ambiguous environments and iterating based on outcomes
• Able to translate strategy into actionable initiatives that drive real adoption
• Strong instinct for what makes people engage and participate, and ability to execute on it
• Hands-on and proactive, with a bias towards action and experimentation
• Able to balance structure and execution in a complex environment
• Strong ownership mindset, focused on delivering impact rather than managing processes
  
  

Successful candidates will be offered a contract in the first instance and may be considered for an extension or be placed on a permanent tenure.

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All applicants will be notified on whether they are shortlisted or not within 4 weeks of the closing date of this job posting.