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Executive Director: People &

- Culture

Applications must be received before: 13/09/2026 11:59 pm

Type: Full Time

Hours per week: 38

Location: Coffs Harbour For More Information About The Role

Contact Ruth Thompson (Chief Executive Officer) on 02 6651 1788.

Position Overview

At Blue Sky Community Services, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As a trusted community organisation delivering services that strengthen individuals, families and communities, we are committed to creating a thriving workplace where our people feel valued, supported and empowered to make a difference.

We are seeking an experienced and values-driven Executive Director: People &

- Culture to join our Executive Leadership Team and lead the strategic direction of our people, culture, workforce, and safety functions across the organisation. This is a new position which we are excited to introduce as we grow our organisation.

This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly experienced People &
- Culture leader who is passionate about building organisational capability, fostering a positive workplace culture, and ensuring best-practice workforce and WHS outcomes.

We are currently offering a full-time position (38 hours per week) based in our ‘HQ’ office at Peterson Road, Coffs Harbour. This position is classified at level 8 of the SCHADS Award.

The Executive Director: People &

- Culture will:

- Set strategic direction for workforce, culture, leadership capability, employee experience and workforce safety.
- Develop and own overarching People and Culture strategies, frameworks and workforce plans aligned with organisational strategy and risk appetite.
- Provide executive stewardship of employment frameworks, workforce systems, leadership capability, learning and development, culture, psychosocial and workforce WHS, wellbeing, injury management and return to work.
- Ensure the organisation has contemporary, lawful and effective workforce policies, frameworks and systems, and lead their ongoing development, optimisation and improvement.
- Use workforce data and organisational insight to identify capability, capacity, culture, succession and workforce risks and opportunities.
- Advise the CEO and Executive Stewardship Team on complex workforce, cultural and people-risk matters.
- Ensure leaders are equipped and accountable to manage people effectively within organisational frameworks.
- Work across portfolios to ensure organisational change, service design and corporate decisions consider workforce impacts and psychosocial risk.

Risk, Governance and Assurance

- Provide strategic stewardship of workforce, employment, culture, leadership capability, psychosocial, workforce WHS, injury management and workforce sustainability risks.
- Ensure emerging and systemic workforce risks are identified, analysed, treated and escalated where material.
- Oversee effectiveness of workforce controls, systems, consultation and assurance mechanisms.




- Ensure significant workplace matters and trends inform broader organisational learning and strategic workforce responses.

Leadership And People Responsibilities

- Lead and hold the Manager: People &
- Culture and other portfolio roles accountable for functional delivery and professional standards, while working alongside the team when practical contribution is required.
- Model values-aligned, kind and accountable leadership and strengthen leadership capability across the organisation.
- Promote effective workforce consultation, employee voice and psychologically safe work practices.
- Support leaders to fulfil their people-management accountabilities rather than transferring routine management responsibility to the People and Culture function.

Work Health and Safety

- Provide executive stewardship of workforce and psychosocial WHS, worker consultation, wellbeing, injury management and return to work systems.
- Ensure the Safety Officer provides specialist support, advice, coordination and monitoring without displacing managers’
- WHS accountabilities.
- Collaborate with Corporate Services on physical workplace and operational WHS and with Community Services on service-related safety risks.
- Support the CEO and other officers to exercise WHS due diligence through effective information, systems and assurance.

Who We Are Looking For The successful applicant will have:

- Significant senior leadership experience in People and Culture, human resources, organisational development or a comparable workforce function.
- Strong contemporary knowledge of Australian employment law, workplace relations, WHS and psychosocial risk obligations.
- Demonstrated capability in workforce strategy, culture, organisational change, leadership development and workforce risk.
- Robust judgement and ability to balance legal, organisational, cultural and human considerations in complex matters.
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in human resources, employment relations, organisational psychology, business or a related discipline, or substantial equivalent experience.

About The People And Culture Team The People and Culture team supports the end-to-end employment journey of our staff; supporting our staff to thrive and, ensuring our workplace community and culture are reflective of our workplace values. How to apply To Apply For This Position, Applicants Must

- complete the application form (downloadable from our website); applications that are received without a completed application form will not be considered




- email the completed application form and a current resume to [email protected]

In responding to the criteria, applicants need to demonstrate how they fulfil the criteria of the position. Please note that applications that are received after the closing time will not be considered. If you need assistance with the application process, please contact [email protected]. We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you feel you may require an adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Inclusive Communities Manager on [email protected] or (02) 6651 1788 to discuss.

Completed hard copies can be delivered to any Blue Sky office before the closing date.

- Please note that applications received after the closing date and time will not be considered.

We are an inclusive employer

We believe that the makeup of our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we work within. We therefore strongly encourage people with diverse backgrounds and cultures, and people who have lived experience of disability, to apply to work with us.

We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you feel you may require an adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Inclusive Communities Manager at [email protected] or (02) 6651 1788 to discuss.

The Recruitment Process

Stage One: Application Assessment Stage

- All applications are assessed against the criteria.
- Applications that are not complete, or that do not satisfactorily address the criteria, will not be considered for interview.
- Shortlisted applicants will be asked to proceed to the interview stage of the recruitment process.
- Applicants who are not selected to progress to the interview stage will be advised by email.

Stage Two: Interview Stage

- Applicants who are selected to progress to the interview stage will be contacted to arrange an interview date, time and location.
- At the interview, applicants will be asked questions to determine whether they are able to perform to a high standard within the role and to determine whether they are a good fit for the position, the organisation and our values.

Stage Three: Further Information Gathering Stage

- Following the interview, applicants may be asked to complete online psychometric testing to further determine suitability for the position.
- Following the interview, the organisation may contact the applicant’s referees to further determine suitability for the position.
- Applicants may also be requested to attend a second interview.

Stage Four: Employment Stage

- Successful applicants will be contacted by the organisation to discuss employment possibilities.
- Unsuccessful applicants will be advised via email.
- Unfortunately, due to the volume of people who apply for our positions and want to work with us, we are unable to provide individual feedback to our applicants.

Supporting Materials Application Form (DOCX, 62 KB)

📌 EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: PEOPLE & CULTURE (Coffs Harbour)
🏢 Blue Sky Community Services
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