Executive Manager People, Culture

**Executive Manager People, Culture & Capability**
- **Strategically focussed and innovative leadership position. Leverage transformation culture**
- **Exciting full-time role to use your sophisticated people and transformation skills**
- **An organisation that empowers and authentically values its staff**

The Executive Manager, People, Culture & Capability reports to the Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Executive Leadership Team and will be responsible for all aspects of the Human Resources, Safety and Learning & Development functions within AQA.

The incumbent will bring best practices across the full spectrum of human resources and advise the Executive Management team and Board on various industrial relations matters, employee engagement & relations, workforce issues, employee development, health, safety and wellbeing. The position will also provide oversight of a new approach to organisational continuous improvement and internal reporting against the organisational capability and performance framework.

**Key responsibilities of the role include**:

- Drive an organisation-wide understanding of the common benefits derived by the business and its employees from a positive and inclusive workplace environment, active employee contribution and an ethical, values based organisational culture
- Provide day-to-day performance management guidance (coaching, counselling, career development, disciplinary actions) driving positive changes in the management of people and performance improvement. Coach, influence and provide high level strategic advice on Conflict Resolution, ER/IR, Organisational development and Change
- Lead the development of workforce strategy to enable growth and service delivery with strong focus on quality, sustainability, and agility
- Developing frameworks, policies and a culture that ensures every phase of the employment life cycle is positive, productive and rewarding.
- Foster individual and collective creativity through the partnership, design and creation of processes and procedures to support and enable the operational teams of AQA
- Contribute strategic and expert advice on change management strategies to support effective organisational transition to new business priorities or models.
- Commission evidence-based evaluations of the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation’s workforce strategies in achieving business outcomes to confirm direction and determine necessary adjustments.
- Manage OHS and well-being to ensure a safe working environment
- Represent AQA in key sector initiatives, forums, working groups across the sector and at State and Federal Government
- Direct leadership and mentoring of the members of the People & Culture team.

**About you**

You are an experienced, senior Human Resources professional who brings expert and contemporary knowledge of generalist human resources policies and practices and significant capability in business partnering.

A strategic leader who can lead by example. You are a creative, original thinker, not constrained by the status quo and continuously striving to improve the way we work.

With exceptional people leadership, stakeholder engagement and communication skills you will be able to drive innovation by partnering with the business through initiatives to solve business challenges and when targeting opportunities.

Ensure a robust talent pipeline is in place, and contribute to the organisational capabilities to meet strategic business targets

You are a natural influencer and possess strong Organisational Development expertise with specific experience designing and delivering a broad range of initiatives and programs including Leadership Development, Succession Planning, Talent Management, Competency Frameworks and Performance Management
- Tertiary qualifications in a related field and/or equivalent experience as designated by AQA.
- Understanding of the impacts of contemporary human resource management issues and how they relate to operational services
- Understanding of and ability to lead a diverse team in a complex and competitive environment
- Expertise in providing advice to organisational leaders in relation to performance management, disciplinary processes, disputes and grievances.
- Demonstrable experience with Human Resources policies, compliance, systems and metrics
- Proven track record in delivering best practice recruitment and selection, induction, training and development, performance management, industrial relations, workforce planning and staff engagement
- Proven ability to develop policy and procedures to provide a strong framework to comply with funding bodies, response to Governance issues and resolve complex workforce issues
- High level of external and internal stakeholder engagement with exceptional skills around communication and influencing.

**Essential**
- Sound understanding of social policy, disability/NDIS and/or community/NFP/Charity sector and/or related areas of work.
- NDIS Wo