Home – Senior Business Partner, People & Culture Senior Business Partner, People & Culture We’re looking for a Senior Business Partner, People & Culture to join our team to keep our people practices focused and connected!

- Plan International Australia
- Permanent, Full-Time
- Flexible Hybrid Working Who are we? We are the world’s leading organisation dedicated to girls’ equality. Andwe’reevolving.

At Plan International

Australia, we believe that when you invest in girls, everything changes–their families, communities and entire nations rise. For decades,we’veworked to tackle the root causes of inequality, support communities through crisis, and shift money, power and influence toward girls and the local organisations closest to them. Now,we’restepping into a bold new chapter.

OurGirls Risestrategy is transforming Plan International Australia from a place-based program implementer into abridge builder–mobilising evidence,influenceand investment solocally-ledorganisations can drive change for girls at scale.We’rebuilding a strategic flywheel where thought leadership, advocacy and resource mobilisation reinforce each other, creating compounding impact for girls worldwide. A bridgedoesn’tcarry itself–it carries others.And the people who build that bridge matter enormously. That’swhere you come in.

The Opportunity

We’relooking for aSenior Business Partner, People & Cultureto join our team, reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer. This is a senior people leadership role at the heart of our transformation. Youwon’tsit on the sidelines of our strategy–you’llbe the person who ensures our people practices,capabilityand connected ways of workingactually makeit real.

Our new structure is built aroundfour portfolios, not departments–Engagement, Impact, Fundraising and Operations–designed to keep our work facing outward, toward the girls and communities we exist to serve. Every join in our flywheel depends on people working across boundaries, sharing power, and holding each other accountable to shared goals.

Your role is to make that way of working stick. You’llbe the senior partner to the COO and Executive on organisational development–designing and embedding the coaching, performance and collaboration practices that turn strategy into how weactually work,



day to day.You’llown our people policy framework,provideexpert advice on employment matters, and coach managers across the organisation to lead with confidence,clarityand care. By strengthening how our teams connect, how our people grow, and how we hold each other accountable,you’llfree colleagues across Plan International Australia to focus on the influence,investmentand impact that changes girls’ lives.

What You’ll Do Coach and build manager capability - Provide expert coaching to people managers across the organisation — building their confidence to lead teams, hold accountability, have courageous conversations, and develop their people.

- Partner with the COO and Executive on senior leadership matters, offering trusted, discreet advice on team dynamics,capabilityand people risk.
- Coordinate external consultants engaged for leadership development and culture programs, ensuring they connect meaningfully with our context and reinforce our ways of working.
- Support managers to applyfeminist leadership principlesin practice — shared power, care,clarityand accountability. Own performance and development - Design, implement and continuously improve our performance review process — ensuring it is fair, useful, aligned to strategy and free of bias.
- Drive an uplift in the quality of performance conversations across the organisation, including goal setting,feedbackand development planning.
- Partner with managers to embed a clear, shared performance management system aligned with our strategic goals. Design connected ways of working - Shape and embed the collaboration practices, team rhythms and cross-portfolio connections that make our flywheel turn.
- Hold and strengthen the key organisational joins — ensuring handoffs are clean, contributions aretimely, and colleagues experience you as a solid and generous connector.



Steward people policy and employee relations - Own Plan International Australia’s people policy framework, including drafting,consultationand implementation.
- Provide sound, considered advice on complex employee relations matters with judgment and discretion.
- Interpret people data and translate it into insight for decision-makers. Champion safeguarding, genderequalityand inclusion - Ensure safeguarding requirements are embedded in recruitment, onboarding and people policies.
- Apply gender-responsive,inclusiveand anti-racist practice across all people processes.
- Model and hold others accountable for safeguarding and GEDSI standards in leadership behaviour.

What It Feels

Like to Work Here - You will get up each day knowing your work helps create justice and equality for girls.

- Hybrid working: We do some of our work in the office and some at home – and honour true flexibility.
- You’llfind strength in our diversity,inclusivenessand mutual respect.
- Salary packaging: up to $15,900 in pre-tax salary packaging plus $2,650 meals and entertainment packaging, increasing your take-home pay
- You’llbe part of a bold strategic shift – helping build an organisation that is smarter and more impactful.
- Access to wellbeingsupportand EAP.
- Connection: regular team events, offsites, and active staff-led communities including our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Working Group, Reconciliation Action Plan Group, Pride Network Committee and Social Committee Plan International Australia is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and LGBTIQ+ individuals are encouraged to apply. Safeguarding, Gender Equality & Inclusion Plan International believes that in a world where children and program participants face so many threats of harm, it is our duty to ensure that we do everything we can to keep children and program participants safe. As part of our efforts to create safe environments for children and program participants, candidates willbe requiredto complete a satisfactory National police Check, sign our Safeguarding policies and code of conduct, and where necessary complete a Working with Children Check.

📌 Senior Business Partner, People & Culture (Melbourne)
🏢 Plan International Australia
📍 Melbourne