About CERES

CERES is an environmental education centre, urban farm and social enterprise hub spread across four locations, linked by the Merri and Darebin Creeks on Wurundjeri Country, Melbourne. Our vision is for people to fall in love with the Earth again.

We receive around half a million visits per year to our original park in Brunswick East, and reach nearly another million through our other locations, school outreach programs and online services.

The CERES School of Nature and Climate is the evolution of our education programs into a focused response to the climate and ecological crisis we are facing.

Position Purpose

The People & Culture Manager provides HR expertise and guidance to managers in relation to people management matters and leads the implementation and administration of HR policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide accurate and timely expertise and guidance to managers in relation to a broad range of people and culture related queries, including complex industrial relations matters.
• Advise managers on ways to develop their people management knowledge and
• Manage all employee experience processes including recruitment, onboarding and induction, learning and development, employee feedback and offboarding.
• Lead the implementation and administration of HR policies and procedures to ensure people and culture related functions and issues are effectively managed.
• Maintain current knowledge of best practice people and culture strategies and legislative changes.
• Manage all Workcover claims and return to work processes.

Apply now!

Please click the button below to view the full position description. Applications must be submitted via our website and should include the following as one document:

1. A brief cover letter addressed to Nicolas Porter, CFO, to introduce yourself and outline your interest in the role
2. A statement addressing the key selection criteria from the position description
3. A current CV

For queries regarding this role and to have a confidential chat, please contact Nicolas Porter at [email protected], using the subject line: People and Culture Manager enquiry via EthicalJobs.

CERES is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. We actively encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from CALD backgrounds, LGBTIQA+ people, people with disability and others who have diverse experiences of our world to apply for this opportunity. CERES believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.