Manager, Employee Engagement

About the role
- Strong, influential union advocating on behalf of nurses and midwives
- Develop, shape and champion best practice people and culture
- Senior level remuneration with generous leave entitlements

The Organisation

The New South Wales Nurses and Midwives’ Association (NSWNMA) is the registered union for all nurses, midwives, and assistants in nursing (carers) and midwifery in NSW. The NSWNMA represents the industrial interests of its members employed in NSW public, private, aged care and primary health care settings, protecting the interests of their professions as well as advocating for the community in advancing a world-class, well-funded, integrated health system.

The NSWNMA also represents and provides for the professional, educational, and industrial welfare of nurses and midwives in government and non-government forums at state, national and international levels.

The NSWNMA has over 80,000 members and is affiliated to Unions NSW and the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU). The NSWNMA works in association with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.

Benefits & Culture
- Report to the Chief Operating Officer and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team
- Respectful, safe culture embracing collectivism, advocacy, innovation, integrity & courage
- Hybrid work from home and Waterloo Sydney office location

The Role

You will drive the development and delivery of strategic workforce planning and programs to move the NSWNMA forward on critical aspects of industrial relations compliance and people & culture, ensuring its workforce have the appropriate culture and capability to meet the Association’s strategic objectives and deliver outcomes for members and stakeholders.

The Association is undergoing a transformation journey to uplift digital capabilities and embrace new ways of working. Our values of Advocacy, Collectivism, Courage, Innovation and Integrity will underpin our ambitious transformation program.

Leading an employee relations team of 6 direct reports, and with end-to-end responsibility for the employee lifecycle encompassing; recruitment, onboarding, learning and development, performance management frameworks, employee relations, day-to-day HR support, and WHS and wellbeing. This role also oversees the payroll function.

Additionally, you will:

- Develop and implement effective people and culture policies, processes and infrastructure ensuring best practice and regulatory compliance
- Work collaboratively across the Association to drive business partnering, realignment and change
- Champion and drive a culture of diversity and inclusion and high performance
- Ensure best practice industrial relations processes to support our workforce

Skills Required

You are a highly collaborative and empathetic industrial relations leader who inspires others to embrace best practice and organisational transformation, and you thrive on developing and implementing human-centred solutions that deliver outstanding outcomes for employees and organisations. With proven ability to translate strategy into action as well as manage the detail of day-to-day operations, you’re skilled in engaging others in your vision.

Your background may be from the union, not for profit, or public sector. You understand the role unions play and have demonstrated social justice values.

Together with relevant tertiary qualifications, you bring a track record in:

- Leading best practice HR initiatives and projects
- Delivery of change management and organisational transformation
- Building strong employee and stakeholder engagement
- Ensuring high quality, legislatively compliant processes and reporting at executive level
- Championing diversity, inclusion and well-being
- Understanding of the regulatory contexts for the trade union movement

If you’re a skilled HR leader committed to the protection of workers’ rights, please submit a cover letter responding to the skills required and your resume quoting ref # 1252430. Alternatively, for a confidential discussion, please contact Hayley Martin on 02 8243 0570.
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