Executive Director - North West Region

• Executive Leadership Team role reporting directly to the CEO
• Lead an integrated portfolio of aged care and community services
• Deliver care excellence, sustainable growth and regional transformation
• Strong clinical background and clinical governance experience.

The Opportunity:

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Executive Director North West Region will provide both strategic vision and operational leadership. You will be responsible for delivering an integrated service model underpinned by a strong model of care across our residential aged care, home care, retirement living, Allied Health, and Disability services. As a values-driven leader and change-maker, you will play a pivotal role in balancing financial and workforce sustainability with exceptional client outcomes and ensuring our communities continue to thrive.

What you will bring:

• Extensive senior leadership experience in aged care, health or another complex, regulated service organisation.
• Strong clinical background and clinical governance experience.
• Experience leading multi-site operations and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience in inspiring and leading high-performing teams with the rights and experience of the older person front and centre of all they do.
• Demonstrated commercial and financial acumen, including responsibility for budgets, service performance excellence and sustainable growth.
• Experience in successfully leading through change and fully embedding operating model requirements and service and digital transformation.
• A resilient, commercially astute values-driven leader who is adaptable, people-centred, and thrives in high-pressure and complex environments.
• A strong communicator who is known for challenging the status quo and is able to confidently deliver innovative, business-aligned workforce strategies.

Key Accountabilities:

• Clinical Governance, Compliance and Risk Management: Deep understanding of aged care funding models, regulatory frameworks, and quality standards, with the capability to ensure robust clinical governance, risk management, and audit readiness.
• Lead Person-Centred Care Excellence: Fully embed mecwacare’s Model of Care as the foundation for high-quality, person-centred services that prioritise safety, dignity, wellbeing, and quality of life fostering a culture of compassion and service excellence.
• Strategic Direction & Sector Leadership: Proven success in developing and executing long-term workforce strategies that drive growth and impact, innovation, service quality, and financial and workforce sustainability.
• Stakeholder Engagement, Board and Governance Reporting: Highly developed interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships across the Board, regulators, government, and our sector and community partners. Strong experience in preparing high-quality Board reporting and insights for effective decision making.  
• Leadership and People Development: A demonstrated ability to lead high-performing teams, embed values-based leadership, support effective succession planning, and foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Change Management and Transformation: Strong track record of leading through organisational change, policy reform, delivering complex transformation programs, and positioning the organisation for future success in a dynamic and complex environment.

To learn more about the role, please find a copy of the Position Description here: https://www.mecwacare.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/PD-Executive-Director-North-West.pdf

Why work for us?
Be part of work that truly makes a meaningful difference.
  
mecwacare is a leading not-for-profit organisation that has been supporting Victorians for more than 65+ years. We are a rapidly growing organisation with a diverse workforce of more than 4200 employees and 500 volunteers, representing 89 nationalities. We strongly encourage applications from individuals of all ages, genders, abilities, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
  
Find out more about what makes mecwacare “a great place to work” by visiting our website www.mecwacare.org.au

What do we offer?

• Not for profit Salary Packaging benefit up to $15,900 and Meals Card up to $2,700.
• Work Life Balance and Hybrid Flexible Working.
• Professional development opportunities and a range of employee benefits and discounts.

How to Apply

Click apply and submit your CV and a two-page cover letter addressing the "Key Selection Criteria in the Position Description." The successful candidate must have appropriate Australian working rights and complete satisfactory criminal and background checks.  A multi-staged interview process will be required for successful short-listed applicants.   
  
Applications close on Tuesday 8 September.
  
Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage you to apply early. This role may close before the advertised date.
  
If you have any other questions, please contact: ***********@mecwacare.org.au