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About the Role
This role offers an opportunity to influence organisational culture, strengthen integrity frameworks, and lead a specialist function supporting fairness, accountability, and high standards of professional conduct across a diverse workforce.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Professional Standards function and provide strategic leadership across workplace conduct, misconduct, complaints, integrity matters, public interest disclosures, and significant performance issues.
- Oversee complex and sensitive matters, ensuring decisions are timely, procedurally fair, evidence-based, and aligned with legislative, policy, and governance requirements.
- Identify organisational risks and implement proactive strategies that promote ethical behaviour, accountability, and respectful workplaces.
- Combine strategic leadership, operational oversight, and trusted executive advisory responsibilities.
Requirements
- Significant experience leading teams responsible for investigations, misconduct, complaints, or workplace integrity matters.
- Deep knowledge of procedural fairness, governance, employment frameworks, and contemporary professional standards practices.
- Strong executive advisory skills and the ability to navigate highly sensitive and complex matters with confidence and discretion.
- Demonstrated success in developing prevention, education, and cultural improvement initiatives.
- Outstanding judgement, resilience, and credibility when managing competing priorities and organisational risk.
- Highly developed communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- A collaborative leadership style that builds trust, capability, and accountability.
- Resume (maximum 5 pages) and cover letter (maximum 2 pages) expressing interest and suitability for the role.
Skills
- Strategic thinking
- Navigating sensitive issues
- Fostering a culture of accountability, professionalism, and continuous improvement
- Executive advisory
- Communication
- Negotiation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Collaborative leadership
Location
- Greenacre
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior Executive Band 1
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources, Employment Relations, Investigations, Law or a related discipline/or equivalent demonstrated experience.
Salary/Compensations
- Total Remuneration Package: $232,190 pa
About the Company
- FRNSW is one of the world’s largest urban fire and rescue services and is the busiest in Australia.
- Our overriding purpose is to enhance community safety, quality of life, and confidence by minimising the impact of hazards and emergency incidents on the people, property, environment and economy of NSW.
- We are prepared for anything – helping anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Equal Opportunity
- Great people come from all walks of life and at Fire and Rescue NSW we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible workforce which reflects the community we serve.
- We welcome people with diverse experience, skills and backgrounds, and encourage applications from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander peoples, individuals who identify as LGBTIQ, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people of all ages.
- If you are a person with disability and require reasonable to participate in the recruitment process, please contact Mary-Anne Springall, Talent Acquisition Advisor, via email to Mary-Anne.Springall@fire.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 9265 2801.