Head Of People And Culture

Turning Stones Recruitment Pty Ltd; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Turning Stones Recruitment Pty Ltd presents an executive People & Culture leadership role with CHC Australia in Canberra. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll drive the people agenda during a period of growth and organisational evolution, translating strategy into workforce priorities, culture, and capability.

You’ll advise the CEO, Board and Executive Team, lead transformation, and balance commercial pace with governance in a lean, asset-intensive environment. A flexible hybrid model is available.

Qualifications

• Extensive generalist HR leadership experience, ideally through growth or transformation.
• Commercial acumen, executive credibility and the confidence to constructively challenge.
• Strong operational HR capability and a pragmatic, sleeves-rolled-up approach.
• Ability to build trust at every level while balancing pace, risk and organisational values.

Responsibilities

• Lead a broad People & Culture function translating strategy into workforce priorities.
• Provide trusted strategic advice to the CEO, Board and Executive Team.
• Oversee culture, engagement, talent acquisition, succession and leadership development.
• Manage employee relations, performance and remuneration.
• Governance, systems, reporting, compliance and people risk.
• Coach leaders and drive change across the business.

Skills

HR leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Commercial acumen

Education

AHRI membership or HR qualification

Job description

Executive influence. Commercial pace. Genuine purpose.

Help shape the next chapter of Canberra’s leading community housing providers. Reporting directly to the CEO and working as part of the Executive Team, you’ll lead CHC’s people agenda through a significant period of growth and organisational evolution.

This is a senior organisational leadership position with genuine strategic influence and direct accountability for practical, hands-on delivery. You’ll be a trusted adviser at the executive table while remaining closely connected to leaders, teams and the realities of the business.

What you’ll do

Lead a broad People & Culture function, translating organisational strategy into workforce priorities that are commercially grounded, compliant and deliverable. Your remit includes:

• Organisational design, workforce planning and capability development
• Trusted strategic advice to the CEO, Board and Executive Team
• Culture, engagement, talent acquisition, succession and leadership development
• Employee and industrial relations, performance and remuneration
• HR governance, systems, workforce reporting, compliance and people risk
• Coaching leaders, resolving complex people matters and delivering change across the business

You’ll move confidently from executive decisions on structure and capability to supporting managers with day-to-day people challenges. In a lean, regulated and asset-intensive environment, sound judgement, responsiveness and follow-through matter.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive generalist HR leadership experience, ideally through growth or transformation
• Commercial acumen, executive credibility and the confidence to constructively challenge
• Strong operational HR capability and a pragmatic, sleeves-rolled-up approach
• The ability to build trust at every level while balancing pace, risk and organisational values

Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or professional membership of AHRI will be highly regarded.

Why CHC?

CHC Australia is Canberra’s largest provider of affordable and social housing. A Tier 1 registered Community Housing Provider with more than 25 years’ experience, CHC houses more than 2,160 Canberrans across over 800 tenancies. Its commercial model supports its social purpose, with revenue reinvested in affordable housing and a substantial development pipeline supporting continued growth.

You’ll work alongside a values-aligned leadership team, at commercial pace, with the opportunity to influence both organisational performance and tangible community outcomes. A flexible hybrid working model is available, balanced with the needs of the business.