Council’s new organisational restructure

In beginning an executive search to fill three new directorships, Kiama Council has made public significant changes to its organisational structure.

“This is about right sizing the organisation and getting ready to divest aged care,” says CEO Jane Stroud.

“Right sizing means delivering an organisation that is the right shape and size for our community and focuses on the work that we need to do.

“We need to set ourselves up through the divestment process for the bigger question of what is Kiama Council if it is not Blue Haven? Who are we? What’s important to our customers? And how do we organise ourselves to give the best value to our ratepayers and community?”

Applications close 5 March for the new directorships (being recruited through McArthurs) – which need to be advertised given the significant changes to the existing roles:

• Director Infrastructure and Liveability

• Director Planning, Environment and Communities

• Chief Operating Officer (created last year, currently filled by an interim appointment).

Ms Stroud says the new roles are great jobs, “It is a fantastic time to come and join our organisation. We know what our issues are and we know what we need to do to fix them.”

Beneath the directorships are consolidated management roles which give a greater breadth of responsibility, which Ms Stroud