Fractional CPO & Senior HR Consultant – HR Flex (Sydney / Hybrid)

About Civitas Talent & HR Flex

Civitas Talent is a specialist HR, People & Culture, Talent Acquisition and HSE recruitment and advisory firm. Through our HR Flex offering, we partner with organisations to provide on-demand, senior HR capability across periods of growth, change, and complexity.

Our HR Flex clients range from SME and mid-market technology businesses through to established manufacturing and operational organisations , including ANZ and APAC-based businesses with offshore headquarters. Engagements are confidential, high-impact, and typically sponsor-led at executive level.

About the Role

Due to increasing demand, we are seeking experienced HR practitioners interested in fractional, interim or project-based consulting work .

You will work directly with business owners, Managing Directors and executive teams, providing hands-on, pragmatic HR leadership and advice.

- Provide fractional or interim senior HR leadership
- Lead organisational health, culture and capability diagnostics
- Design and implement skills and capability frameworks
- Support organisation design, workforce planning and succession
- Coach and partner with senior leaders
- Uplift leadership capability and ways of working
- Provide practical HR advisory across employee relations, governance and change
- Facilitate leadership or strategy sessions where required

About You

You will be a senior, commercially minded HR professional who enjoys working closely with leaders and navigating complexity.

You will ideally bring:

- Senior HR leadership experience (CPO, Head of HR,



Senior HR Consultant or equivalent)
- Strong capability in:
- Organisational design and operating models
- Skills and capability frameworks
- Culture, engagement and leadership alignment
- Experience across one or more of the following environments:
- Technology / SaaS / digital
- Manufacturing or operational businesses
- SME or founder-led organisations
- Confidence operating in fractional or consulting engagements
- Availability for part-time, interim or project-based work
- Sydney based with hybrid working
- Competitive day rates depending on scope and seniority
- Prospect to work on high-impact, executive-led initiatives
- Backed by Civitas Talent’s brand, network and client relationships

What We Pay, And What Comes With It

$95,000 to $110,000 base plus 12% superannuation, with variable earnings of up to $30,000 on meetings and pipeline, giving on-target earnings of $125,000 to $140,000.

Who We Are

We are the Australian arm of a consultancy founded in Poland that has been implementing IFS for more than twenty years, from nine offices across nearly twenty countries. IFS named us their Channel Partner of the Year and we hold Elite Partner status with them.

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Ideal knowledge

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