Senior Consultant

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• Full Time, permanent position
• Flexible & hybrid working, from our office at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital or your home

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Department

The HR Shared Services (HRSS) Department is part of the broader People and Culture Directorate. It is a well-regarded operations function, consisting of teams that provide accurate and efficient HR services across the organisation. With a focus on service excellence and customer-centricity, the HRSS teams work collaboratively together and with the broader People and Culture function to support employees and managers through the employee life cycle. HRSS includes payroll, salary packaging, HR services and HR systems.

About the role

Reporting to the HR Services & Salary Packaging Manager, the Senior Consultant, Workforce Architecture is a central role responsible for managing the design, establishment, and maintenance of all positions across Austin Health. You will implement systems and processes that ensure position data integrity, support organisational design, and enable strategic workforce planning.

A regular day will see you:

• Developing and maintaining frameworks and tools that support consistent and compliant position management practices.
• Leading ongoing data cleansing and validation efforts to maintain the accuracy and strategic alignment of position and job data.
• Overseeing the position approval process, ensuring all documentation aligns with governance standards.
• Acting as a subject matter expert for Position Management, supporting strategic P&C projects and initiatives like job architecture

About you

To be successful in this role, you'll bring with you:

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in position management and the governance of HR processes.
• Professional experience in business systems, including well-developed business and needs analysis skills, ideally within a People and Culture environment.
• An ability to combine analytical, technical, and strategic expertise to design and manage effective Position Management processes.
• Proven experience and high-level capability with an ERP application (such as SAP, Workday or Oracle).

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

• Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
• A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
• Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
• Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working with Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Tom Booth, Salary Packaging & HR Services Manager at

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Monday 6 October 2025