CenITex replaces $493k COO
Victorian shared services provider CenITex has gone to market for a new chief operating officer to fill Thana Velummylum's former role.
Velummylum finished up his position as COO earlier this year and moved to be the program director for CenITex's efficient technology services program (ETS), which aims to create the common desktop, trusted network and hosting service for CenITex to implement in all departments.
His role change came after controversy over his holding the chief operating officer position as a contractor — his payment was $493,680 for the year. Victoria's Shadow Minister for Information and Communications Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips had said at the time that he didn't think that an ongoing position such as the COO should be filled by a contractor.
The advertisement to fill the COO position once more is looking for someone to work in Melbourne on a fixed-term full-time basis, but didn't specify a salary.
As COO, the successful applicant will be in charge of around 500 direct and indirect reports, according to the advertisement, but to obtain the role they will have to have proved financial management of profitable budgets of over $40 million.
The operations division was the "engine room of the organisation" the advertisement said, taking care of service desks, workplace services, hosting services, vendor management and process improvement.
According to the position description, the role works closely with the clients' director Neil Smart and the chief information officer; however, no chief information officer has appeared on the senior management site since former CIO Bruce Carlos left and the position was dissolved.
Although ZDNet.com.au understands CenITex hoped to fill the position from within government, the advertisement says that the applicant should ideally have both government and commercial experience.
In a presentation given in June this year, Velummylum said that CenITex had 320 full-time staff and took in $57 million per annum in revenues. The shared services agency was supporting 12,775 desktops and 1200 servers.
CenITex has yet to respond to requests for comment on the role.