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About the Role
Lead the strategic direction and delivery of the Safety & Wellbeing function, establishing priorities, frameworks, and programs to promote physical and psychological safety and wellbeing at the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Provide authoritative advice to senior leaders on work health, safety, wellbeing, workers compensation, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic direction and delivery of the Safety & Wellbeing function.
- Establish priorities, strategies, and programs that support organizational objectives and strengthen physical and psychological safety and wellbeing.
- Provide authoritative, pragmatic, and risk-based advice to senior and executive leaders on WHS, workplace wellbeing, significant incidents, emerging risks, and organizational responsibilities.
- Lead the organization’s WHS governance and assurance framework, including policy, systems, controls, and reporting.
- Ensure alignment of the safety management system with ISO 45001.
- Provide strategic oversight of physical and psychosocial risk management and workplace wellbeing.
- Promote preventative approaches and use data to identify systemic issues and opportunities for improvement.
- Build organizational capability and accountability for safety and wellbeing through consultation and collaboration.
- Lead, develop, and motivate the Safety & Wellbeing team, establishing clear priorities and fostering a collaborative culture.
- Maintain operational accountability for the Safety & Wellbeing function, including people, budget, resources, systems, and external providers.
- Ensure resources and priorities focus on the organization’s most significant safety and wellbeing risks and objectives.
Requirements
- Deep technical expertise in work health and safety, including physical and psychosocial risk management, workplace wellbeing, incident management, governance, and assurance.
- Detailed knowledge of WHS legislative and regulatory requirements and the ability to translate these into practical organizational frameworks, systems, and advice.
- Demonstrated experience developing and continuously improving WHS management systems, including alignment with ISO 45001.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, analyze, and manage complex Safety & Wellbeing risks and issues, using data and evidence to inform priorities and senior-level decision-making.
- Ability to effectively advise and influence senior and executive leaders, communicate complex or sensitive matters, and build effective stakeholder relationships.
- Effectively lead a professional Safety & Wellbeing function, translate strategy into operational outcomes, and build team and organizational capability.
- Deliver meaningful leading and lagging Safety & Wellbeing metrics that demonstrate trends, effectiveness of controls, and sustained improvement over time.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in work health and safety, risk management, or a related discipline, or equivalent significant professional experience.
- Substantial senior-level experience leading Safety & Wellbeing within a large or complex organisation, including experience operating in a self-insurance environment.
- Strong knowledge and practical application of WHS legislation, regulatory requirements, and contemporary physical and psychosocial risk management practices.
- Demonstrated experience developing and improving WHS management systems, including alignment with ISO 45001.
- Demonstrated experience leading professional teams and providing authoritative advice to senior and executive leaders on complex Safety & Wellbeing risks, issues, and organizational responsibilities.
Skills
- Work health and safety
- Physical risk management
- Psychosocial risk management
- Workplace wellbeing
- Incident management
- Governance
- Assurance
- WHS legislative and regulatory requirements
- WHS management systems
- ISO 45001 alignment
- Risk analysis
- Data analysis
- Stakeholder relationship building
- Team leadership
- Strategic planning
- Operational execution
- Team capability building
- Performance metrics delivery
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Senior-level
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in work health and safety, risk management, or a related discipline, or equivalent significant professional experience.
Benefits
- Development and career opportunities
- Collaborative environment
- Support for growth
- Wellbeing support
- Flexibility
About the Company
- The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking.
- We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people.
- Our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives.
- We strive to be Open & Dynamic, considering and incorporating different perspectives, working across teams, and being transparent.
- We deliver quality together effectively and focus on outcomes by prioritizing, testing, learning, and refining.
- Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, striving for excellence.
- We encourage intelligent inquiry and treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest.
Equal Opportunity
- The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives.
- We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community.
- We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.