Director People Experience - Zoos Victoria

Davidson; Melbourne; Sur place; AUD 180 000 - 260 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Zoos Victoria invites a strategic HR leader to join as Director, People Experience in Melbourne. This role shapes and drives people, culture, safety, and organisational development across a major not-for-profit conservation organisation.

You will partner with the CEO and Executive Team to align HR strategy with the organisation's purpose and priorities, influencing enterprise bargaining, employee relations, and workforce planning while fostering a safe, inclusive, high-performing culture.

Responsabilités

• Lead the people, culture, safety and organisational development agenda.
• Shape a values-driven, people-first culture across a purpose-led organisation.
• Build capability and lead the People Experience function through its next stage of development.
• Advise the CEO, Board and Executive Team on people matters, including enterprise bargaining, employee relations, capability, remuneration and HR systems.
• Support organisational change and strengthen a safe, compassionate and high performing culture through the Safety Circle approach.
• Lead the People Experience function, building capability and delivering practical, creative solutions that support Zoos Victoria's purpose.
• Bring broad HR generalist experience across organisational development, change, employee relations, safety, workforce planning and enterprise bargaining.

Description du poste

• Lead the people, culture, safety and organisational development agenda
• Shape a values driven, people first culture across a purpose led organisation
• Build capability and lead the function through its next stage of development

Zoos Victoria is a not-for-profit Victorian Government statutory authority operating Melbourne Zoo, Werribee Open Range Zoo, Healesville Sanctuary and Kyabram Fauna Park. Caring for more than 5,500 animals, Zoos Victoria is committed to ensuring no Victorian terrestrial species goes extinct on its watch.

With a vision to be a world leading zoo-based conservation organisation, Zoos Victoria delivers conservation programs, breeding and recovery initiatives, emergency wildlife response and partnerships with communities, research institutions, conservation organisations and sister zoos nationally and internationally.

Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer and contributing as a member of the Executive Team, the Director People Experience will lead the organisation's people, culture, safety and organisational development agenda. This is a critical role to strengthen culture, capability and organisational effectiveness across Zoos Victoria. The Director People Experience will shape how People Experience operates into the future and ensure it is positioned to support the organisation's strategic priorities.

You will advise the CEO, Board and Executive Team on people matters, with strategic oversight of enterprise bargaining, employee relations, capability, remuneration and HR systems. You will support organisational change, manage people related risks and strengthen a safe, compassionate and high performing culture through the Safety Circle approach. Leading the People Experience function, you will build capability and develop practical, creative solutions that support Zoos Victoria's purpose.

The successful candidate will be a value driven, commercially astute people leader with broad generalist HR experience across organisational development, change, employee relations, safety, workforce planning and enterprise bargaining. Experience in government, a statutory authority or another complex, regulated environment will be highly regarded. You will bring strong strategic understanding of industrial relations and the confidence to manage complex union matters with both sensitivity and firmness. You will be a trusted, people first leader who can build relationships, navigate challenging issues and provide clear, practical advice in support of Zoos Victoria's purpose and future direction. A relevant tertiary qualification in Human Resources or Business is required, with postgraduate qualifications and AHRI certification highly regarded.

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