Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) will provide strategic leadership, guide organisational culture, and oversee operation at South East Leisure. The CEO is responsible for ensuring the continued alignment of the Company’s delivery model with its established business objectives and community outcomes. These outcomes include maximising participation and enhancing health and wellbeing across the Greater Dandenong community.

A key focus of the CEO is to lead a capable executive team to ensure excellence in the management the organisation’s venues, ensuring operational continuity, service quality, and stakeholder confidence. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence outcomes in a recreation, health, and leisure environment. It requires a commercially astute and visionary leader who can leverage existing infrastructure and resources to sustain and enhance community wellbeing.

With significant leadership capability, the CEO will be expected to uphold and strengthen the organisation’s culture, values, and operating principles, while engaging with a broad and complex range of stakeholders including patrons, members, internal staff, Board Directors, City of Greater Dandenong, and senior Council Executives.

Active engagement and leadership through the capital works phase of the Dandenong Wellbeing Centre (DWC), ensuring strategic oversight, long-term planning, and alignment with South East Leisure’s future direction is an important priority for the CEO.