Head of People and Culture

**About us**

The NSW Institute of Sport [NSWIS] is a high performance sporting organisation that supports Australian athletes to become world’s best. We reach all regions of NSW with an Olympic and Paralympic training facility based at Sydney Olympic Park and high performance hubs across NSW that provide world class daily training environments for our athletes and coaches. Our experts work in collaboration with partners within the national sporting system to create and deliver high performance support services and environments to prepare athletes and coaches for international competition.

**About the role**

The Head of People & Culture works with the Director, Corporate and Communications (DCC) to design, develop and implement workforce strategies that will attract, engage, and retain high quality staff. This position will provide strategic HR & IR advice, improve business practices, lead complex projects, and ensure strict compliance with relevant legislative and regulatory frameworks.

This position will also lead people and culture professionals to support the DCC, CEO and Executive team in the delivery of modern workplace practices that are inclusive for all, in which people belong, a positive culture is fostered, and productivity is enhanced. This will include ensuring a child safe and ethical environment, aligned with the principles of the national sport integrity framework and NSW Children’s Guardian, and overseeing Health and Safety requirements across the business, ensuring a safe workplace for all athletes and staff.

**Experience Required for the role**
- Extensive experience in Human Resource Management and/or senior level experience in a complex human resources environment (government desirable)
- Extensive experience in providing strategic and operational expertise, coaching and consultancy services across a broad range of human resource functions to management, staff and boards
- Demonstrated experience influencing and leveraging relationships at a senior level to gain commitment to action that support business objectives
- Demonstrated experience in workforce planning, developing best-practice HR systems and driving organisational change projects to a successful completion
- Experience in overseeing end to end recruitment, induction and on-boarding, and learning and development processes
- Experience with change management in an organisational setting
- Highly developed communication skills with experience in the preparation of reports, plans and other business documents at the executive level

This is a full time position, attracting a salary range of $132,993 - $145,461 plus superannuation. The contract period for this role is up to 31 December 2028 in line with the Olympic cycle.

This is an identified position requiring a Working with Children Check.

For further information about the role and the key accountabilities please see the job description.

**Essential Requirements**
- Proven understanding of what it takes to deliver a Diversity & Inclusion strategy
- Track record of implementing employee engagement action plans with stakeholders
- Experience in implementing wellbeing initiatives that have impact and can be measured for their success
- Demonstrated experience working collaboratively with a range of internal stakeholders to implement large-scale workforce initiatives
- Awareness of contemporary issues relating to athletes in high performance sport (mental health, wellbeing, social issues)
- First Aid and CPR certificate
- Working with Children Check
- Sport Integrity Australia - Anti-Doping Fundamentals & Annual update
- A cover letter outlining how you meet the requirements and focus capabilities in the job description for the role (maximum 1 page)
- An up to date CV outlining experience, qualifications and achievements (please include at least two referees)

This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles that may arise over the next 18 months.

NSWIS is committed to protecting Children from harm. We require all applicants that will work with Children to undergo an extensive screening process prior to appointment

Commitment to Diversity