Are you an accomplished People and Culture leader with a passion for driving operational excellence, cultural regeneration and delivering on strategic outcomes?

The Y Ballarat is seeking an experienced HR leader to become our Executive Manager – People and Culture. The role will oversee and lead our organisation’s people and culture operations across our substantial portfolio that includes over 100 service locations including kindergartens, long day care centre’s, outside school hours care venues, swimming lessons and youth education and engagement.

As the Executive Manager – People and Culture, you will work collaboratively with the Executive Leadership team to implement our vision and mission, ensuring the delivery of strategic goals and objectives. Your ability to understand people and business challenges, combined with a workforce development knowledge that empowers others and allows our people to thrive will inform your contribution to our future growth.

If this resonates with you, we would love for you to come and join our organisation and play a pivotal role in driving our long-term success, contributing positively to our people and the community. We have a competitive remuneration package that appropriately values the role’s significance, skill level and required experience on offer.

About You

You are an accomplished senior human resource professional, with a proven track record in providing expert and contemporary knowledge of generalist human resources policies and practices with 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. 

As a values-based leader, you will inspire and empower our people, with a drive for problem-solving and results. You will have the experience of balancing strategic and operational drivers, combined with exceptional relationship building and communication skills that will empower you to navigate complex business environments and make strategy a reality.

Your values-based leadership will be supplemented by appreciating the commercial reality of our diverse business units in a large and complex not-for-profit organisation. You will be confident, inquisitive and analytical, identifying new improvements and initiatives whilst utilising your creative problem-solving capabilities. 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.

What we are looking for:

• Tertiary qualification in a related field and/or equivalent experience
• Substantial People and Culture experience in large-scale organisation, with experience of leading in a complex, impactful and far-reaching organisation.
• A deep understanding of the impacts of contemporary human resource management issues and how they relate to operational services
• Expertise in providing advice to organizational leaders in relation to performance management, disciplinary processes, disputes and grievances.
• A Proven communicator, with the ability to write reports, present data, solutions and deep-dive analysis
• Excellent verbal communication skills that connect teams and people.
• A proven collaborator, with the ability to influence, work and empower a range of stakeholders to achieve financial and strategic outcomes.
• Has the ability to make appropriate, timely decisions; being accountable to the outcome and responsibility to getting things done