Senior Manager Wellbeing

Build a Culture Where Everyone Thrives

Create Psychological Safety. Drive Engagement. Transform Wellbeing.

Lead wellbeing and engagement strategy for one of NSW's largest employers. As Senior Manager Wellbeing & Engagement, you'll design and deliver evidence-based programs that make psychological safety real, not just rhetoric – building a workplace where 30,000+ employees feel safe to speak up, collaborate, and perform at their best.

Your Impact

Strategic Leadership

• Drive Transport's psychological safety, wellbeing, and engagement strategies and ensure alignment and integration with organisational culture priorities
• Design evidence-based frameworks that create genuinely supportive work environments
• Lead mental health, wellbeing, and psychosocial hazard prevention programs
• Build comprehensive reporting systems that track wellbeing indicators and deliver insights to leadership

Culture & Capability

• Equip leaders to foster psychologically safe teams through targeted training and coaching
• Conduct needs analysis to identify culture and engagement gaps
• Deliver pilot initiatives that embed cultural aspirations across Transport
• Partner with executives, P&C, and safety teams to integrate wellbeing into operations

Prevention & Support

• Collaborate with safety teams to develop controls that proactively manage psychosocial hazards
• Provide expert advice on psychological safety, workplace conflicts, and wellbeing matters
• Create tools and resources that help employees manage stress, resilience, and mental health
• Monitor control effectiveness and adapt approaches based on data to inform and improve program initiatives

Engagement Excellence

• Lead organisation-wide employee engagement strategy and initiatives including engagement monitoring and improvement programs.
• Leverage data insights across the organisation to develop tailored engagement initiatives that integrate as appropriate across a very diverse organisation by increasing the focus on engagement and culture.
• Support agencies in developing and executing effective engagement action plans
• Foster open conversations around mental health and psychological safety
• Drive meaningful behavioural change across leadership and team dynamics

What You Bring

Essential

• Proven experience leading wellbeing, psychological safety, and engagement initiatives at organisational scale
• Deep knowledge of psychosocial hazards, mental health frameworks, and evidence-based wellbeing practices
• Track record designing strategies that drive cultural and behavioural change and leading engagement monitoring and improvement programs.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and partnering across complex organisations

Your Strengths

• Strategic Impact – You translate wellbeing concepts into actionable programs with measurable outcomes across the whole of the organisation through strategic thinking, integration, and effectiveness.
• Change Leadership – You embed psychological safety into daily operations, not just policy
• Expertise & Credibility – You're the trusted advisor on wellbeing, mental health, and engagement
• Collaboration – You build partnerships across P&C, safety, and business functions
• Courage & Empathy – You navigate sensitive conversations and drive difficult cultural shifts

The Reality

The challenges are real:

• Driving behavioural change at scale across diverse workforces
• Overcoming stigma and misconceptions around mental health and psychological safety
• Balancing compliance with genuine cultural transformation

But so is the opportunity. You'll have executive support, resources, and mandate to create lasting impact in an organisation genuinely committed to employee wellbeing.

Why This Role Matters

• Shape wellbeing strategy for 30,000+ employees across Transport for NSW
• Lead high-profile psychological safety, wellbeing and engagement initiatives
• Partner with executive leadership to transform workplace culture
• Make tangible difference in people's daily work experience
• Position Transport as an employer of choice for wellbeing

Ready to Transform Workplace Wellbeing and Engagement?

If you're a wellbeing and engagement leader who combines strategic thinking with practical implementation, and you're passionate about creating workplaces where people truly thrive, this is your opportunity.

You can find out more in the role description or our information pack.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you'd like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team's home base location with remote days. 

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us.  Apply now

Applications close: 11:59 pm Sunday 30 November 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact GARY..NSW.GOV.AU.

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