Strategic Workforce Planning Lead

Lead, Strategic Workforce Planning (Health Manager Level 4)

• Permanent Full-Time
• Opportunity to work from our modern offices in Chatswood and St Leonards
• In-office presence with hybrid flexibility for work-life balance
• Attractive salary from $147, $175, % Super + 17.5% annual leave loading
• Join the team enriching health in millions of ways every day through digital innovation

Applications Close: 11:59pm, Sunday 30 November 2025

About Us – eHealth NSW

At eHealth NSW, we're leading the digital transformation of Australia's largest health system. As NSW Health's digital centre of excellence, we design, build and support world-class ICT solutions that improve patient care across the state.

Guided by a Cloud First Strategy, we're harnessing digital technology to better patient care and deliver scalable, quality, patient-centred, digital healthcare. With your skills and experience, you can help enrich the lives of millions while developing your career within Australia's largest health organisation—alongside passionate tech professionals, health partners and industry leaders building solutions that truly make a difference.

About the Opportunity

As Lead, Strategic Workforce Planning in our People and Culture team at eHealth NSW, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping a future-ready workforce. You'll lead and manage both enterprise-level and business unit-level workforce planning initiatives that align with organisational goals now and into the future.

In this role, you will:

• Advise the Head of People Strategy and Organisational Change with expert insights to shape the Strategic Workforce Plan and broader People Strategy FY25-FY30 and related initiatives.
• Lead the design and delivery of strategic and tactical workforce planning across eHealth NSW, partnering with leaders and enabling teams to ensure alignment with organisational goals.
• Analyse workforce data from diverse sources to uncover trends, translate insights, and inform actionable initiatives.
• Champion best-practice workforce planning and organisational design, while proactively uplifting strategic workforce planning maturity across eHealth NSW.
• Drive project activities linked to strategic and tactical workforce plans and prepare monthly executive reports for senior stakeholders and governance forums.

About You

We are looking for someone with:

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in strategic workforce planning, HR management, project management, organisational change management, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering strategic and tactical workforce planning across the full lifecycle, with strong practical application in change and project management within a complex, results-driven and customer-centric ICT/ digital environment.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and provide expert advice across all levels of the organisation.
• Strong research and analytical capabilities, with the ability to turn data into actionable insights that support strategy and planning.

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Working at eHealth

Our people are at the heart of who we are. We support our people with great benefits so they can enrich health in millions of ways every day:

• Flexible work options
• Professional growth and career development
• Allocated day off per month
• Salary packaging
• Various health and wellbeing programs to support our team

How to apply

Share with us your cover letter and most up to date resume (up to 5 pages), highlighting your relevant skills and experience as well as a response to the following targeted question:

Can you describe a time when you led and managed the design and delivery of both strategic (enterprise level) and tactical (business unit level) workforce planning initiatives within an ICT/ digital organisation? How did you ensure alignment with organisational objectives and future workforce needs, and what measurable outcomes did your approach achieve?

We recognise that AI tools are increasingly being used to assist with resumes and applications. While we accept their use, we're eager to see your personality and get to know the person behind the application

For further discussions around the role or recruitment process, including adjustments, please contact our Talent Advisor at or Hiring Manager, Jessica Tsai on

Additional information

• This recruitment may be used to create a Talent Pool for similar future roles (ongoing or temporary) that may arise over the next 18 months.
• To be eligible for this role you must have current Australian work rights (Australian citizen, permanent resident, New Zealand citizen with a current passport, or hold a valid visa with permission to work in Australia).

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