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Strategic People Leader

2 months ago


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia McArthur Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Chief People Officer

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Chief People Officer to lead our People and Safety business unit, champion operational excellence, and play a key role in our workplace transformation program.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Lead and Develop a High-Achieving Team: Lead, inspire, and develop a high-achieving people and safety business unit to optimise service delivery and performance, and to embrace and engage with the Council vision and Team Melton transformation agenda.
  • Champion Operational Excellence: Champion operational excellence working collaboratively with leaders and influencing key stakeholders.
  • Co-Design and Implement Process Frameworks: Co-design and implement process frameworks, business improvements, and ways of working, to ensure high-impact initiatives are identified, prioritised, and delivered, and best practice behaviours are embedded.
  • Monitor and Report Key Metrics: Identify and monitor key metrics of success and provide timely, accurate, and data-driven advice and written reports on progress, financial impacts, risks, dependencies, and performance against success indicators.
  • Develop Technological Innovations: Working in conjunction with transformation and technology teams, develop and implement technological innovations to deliver an improved employee experience.
  • Communicate Effectively: Prepare reports, briefings, and presentations for Councillors, Executive, staff, and committees to convey complex information in a clear and concise manner.
  • Develop Leaders: Develop the leaders of the People and Safety business unit, providing authority and autonomy for them to drive improvement and agreed objectives.
Requirements:
  • Extensive Experience: Demonstrated extensive experience in leading people and safety functions in large and complex organisations.
  • Engagement with Diverse Communities: Experience in engaging with diverse communities with varying customer and employee needs.
  • Strategic and Problem-Solving Skills: Highly developed strategic and problem-solving skills with the ability to achieve results.
  • Improvement and Change: Demonstrated experience driving improvement and change in people and safety functions, and reporting on this to Executives, Council, Boards, or Committees.
  • Industrial Relations: Extensive experience in industrial relations, working in unionised environments.
  • Communication Skills: Excellent verbal, presentation, and written communication skills to enable effective communication with all levels of the organisation, including internal and external stakeholders.
  • Leadership and Development: Ability to lead, motivate, and develop employees; inspire and lead through change.
  • Qualifications: A tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Business Administration, Occupational Health & Safety (OHS), Organisational Development, or a related field, or alternatively extensive aligned experience.