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About the Role
This is an exciting opportunity to lead NESA's People & Culture function and play a key role in supporting our people, leaders and workforce priorities. Reporting to the Executive Director, Corporate Services, you will lead the People & Culture team to provide expert advice, strategies and services across people partnering, employee and industrial relations, workforce planning, recruitment, work health and safety, wellbeing, performance, learning and capability development. As a trusted advisor to senior leaders, you will help shape practical workforce solutions and drive continuous improvement that supports NESA's objectives while ensuring compliance with legislative, industrial and policy requirements.
Responsibilities
- Leading the delivery of end-to-end People & Culture services.
- Developing a high-performing People & Culture team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, service excellence and continuous improvement.
- Building trusted relationships with leaders across the organisation and supporting them to effectively lead, develop and manage their teams.
- Providing high-quality strategic and operational advice to executives and people leaders on complex workforce matters, organisational risk and people management practices.
- Identifying opportunities to improve people processes, systems and services while maintaining compliance with legislative and policy requirements.
- Monitoring emerging workforce trends, risks and sector developments and translating insights into practical people solutions.
- Working closely with internal stakeholders, NSW government central agencies and external partners to deliver positive workforce outcomes for NESA.
Requirements
- Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary People & Culture functions within a complex public sector or heavily regulated environment.
- Demonstrated success building trusted relationships at all organisational levels providing influential advice on complex and sensitive workforce matters that balances pragmatic business outcomes and innovative solutions.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary people management, employment and industrial relations, workforce governance and best-practice People & Culture service delivery.
- Experience coaching, supporting and developing leaders to build capability, strengthen people management practices and achieve positive workforce outcomes.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the NSW education sector, including the operating environment, workforce context and stakeholder landscape across government and nongovernment school sectors.
- A strong values-based leadership approach, with a focus on building capable teams, fostering collaboration and delivering high-quality customer-focused services.
- Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employment relations, organisational psychology, business or a related discipline, and/or equivalent substantial professional experience.
- A current NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) clearance for paid employment is required before commencing in this role.
Location
- Hybrid work arrangements available
Work Type
- Full-time
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employment relations, organisational psychology, business or a related discipline, and/or equivalent substantial professional experience.
Salary/Compensations
- $195,114 to $218,910 p.a.
Benefits
- An organisation where your contribution has a big impact.
- An enviable CBD location (all modes of transport nearby, and excellent coffee and eateries) with refurbished offices.
- Flexible working arrangements and generous leave entitlements.
- Access to discounted health and fitness memberships via Fitness Passport, an employee assistance program and annual flu vaccinations.
- Salary packaging options.
- Working in a purpose driven and ethical organisation with committed colleagues.
About the Company
- At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we are dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.
- We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).
- NESA is a unique organisation in NSW (of around 740FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact.
Equal Opportunity
- All children and young people have the right to be respected, feel safe, be safe, and protected from harm. NESA is committed to child safety and child safe practices underpinning our purpose of helping children and young people leave school, ready to take advantage of life’s opportunities and rise to its inevitable challenges.
- We particularly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people of all ages, genders, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and the LGBTQIA+ community.