People Partner

Tracking Code

4975-689

**Job Description**:
**Melbourne preferred | Full-time | Permanent**

Are you a strategic People/HR professional who believes people are the driving force behind meaningful change? Join Save the Children Australia as a People Partner and help build the organisational capability that creates lasting impact for children.

**Your Mission**

Support our international programs team

Partner directly with our Executive and senior leaders to translate ambitious strategies into people-powered solutions. You'll drive talent management, culture transformation, and organizational effectiveness initiatives that directly enable our teams to reach more children in need.

**What you’ll drive**:

- Strategic Impact: Turn business strategy into actionable people plans that amplify our reach and effectiveness
- Talent Excellence: Design succession planning, leadership development, mobilisation and retention strategies for our most critical roles
- Culture Transformation: Lead change initiatives that strengthen our mission-driven culture and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Data-Driven Insights: Use people analytics to identify opportunities and measure the human impact of our organizational decisions

**What You Bring**
- Proven HR Business Partner experience in complex, multi-location organizations
- Multi-country HR operations management experience
- Experience in international development / humanitarian context, including experience supporting complex multi-lateral programs
- Demonstrated understanding of development programming, donor requirements, and cross-cultural program implementation
- Strong business acumen with expertise in organizational psychology and change management
- Advanced coaching skills and passion for developing leadership capabilities
- Experience with people analytics and evidence-based decision making

**Why This Role Matters**

Every strategy you shape, every leader you develop, and every culture initiative you drive creates ripple effects that reach vulnerable children and communities. You'll be part of an organization that's fearless in pursuit of lasting change, working alongside bright and big-hearted people who share your commitment to making a difference.

In addition, we also offer:

- Opportunity to work on additional projects to enable you to stretch and feel connected to programs in a different way
- Individual learning plans to help map and deliver on your career development.
- Internal employment and development opportunities
- Support for workplace wellness, including access to our free, confidential Employee Wellbeing Program
- $135k - $140k circa, plus full salary packaging benefits (please
- Extra leave to use in a range of ways to ensure you’re able to perform at your optimum

Follow this link for the full list of our employee benefits.

**Ready to use your strategic people expertise where it matters most?**

now and join a team that's changing the world for children.

Applications close **COB Friday 5**th** September 2025.**

**Position Description** - People Partner - International Programs
- Save the Children Australia is a child-safe organisation. All employees are required to undergo a National Police Check, a Working with Children Check, and sign our Child Safeguarding Policy and Code of Conduct. We also support the _Inter-Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme_._
- Save the Children is committed to providing and maintaining a safe working environment for its employees and client groups, consistent with our obligations under OH&S legislation. _

Job Location

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Position Type

Full-time Permanent

Close Date

9/5/2025