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Manager: People & Culture
Applications must be received before: 02/11/2026 11:59 pm
Type: Full Time
Hours per week: 38
Location: Mid North Coast (any of our Blue Sky offices)
For More Information About The Role
Contact Nicola McEwan (People & Culture Manager) 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 Manager: People & Culture to join our Leadership Team on a maximum-term basis and lead our People and Culture team across the organisation.
This is a great prospect for a People & Culture leader who is passionate about fostering a positive workplace culture and working collaboratively with the People and Culture team to ensure best-practice workforce and WHS outcomes.
We are currently offering a full-time (38 hours per week), parental leave cover position until December 2027. The successful applicant can be based at any of our office locations. This position is classified at level 6 of the SCHADS Award. The successful applicant will commence mid to end of November 2026.

The Manager: People & Culture will:

- Manage day-to-day People and Culture service delivery across recruitment, onboarding, employment changes, performance processes, employee support, learning and development coordination and separation activities.
- Implement organisational workforce strategies, policies, frameworks, procedures and systems consistently,



lawfully and in line with organisational priorities.
- Provide practical advice and hands‑on support to managers on routine and moderately complex employment, performance, conduct, leave and workplace matters within delegated authority.
- Ensure employment documentation, records, clearances, contracts, personnel files and workforce systems are accurate, current, secure and effectively maintained.
- Coordinate recruitment and onboarding and support equitable, inclusive and accessible employment practices.
- Support implementation of performance development, leadership capability, learning, culture, engagement, wellbeing and workforce initiatives.
- Support the effective use and ongoing improvement of People and Culture systems, workflows, data quality, reporting and employee/manager processes, identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and effectiveness.
- Monitor operational workforce trends, recurring issues and process gaps, recommend improvements and elevate strategic or systemic matters to the Executive Director: People and Culture.
- Manage and support the People and Culture Officer, allocating work appropriately and building role capability.

Risk, Governance and Assurance

- Manage operational People and Culture risks and ensure established workforce controls, systems and processes are implemented effectively.
- Identify employment, privacy, workforce,



psychosocial, compliance and process risks and elevate complex, systemic or material matters to the Executive Director: People and Culture.
- Ensure sensitive employee information is handled confidentially, lawfully and only by authorised people.
- Support grievance, workplace-matter and employment processes within role scope, maintaining appropriate documentation, procedural fairness and organisational controls.
- Use operational workforce information and trends to support assurance, continuous improvement and organisational learning.

Leadership and People Responsibilities

- Lead, supervise and develop the People and Culture Officer and other designated support roles, ensuring clear priorities, accountability and professional standards.
- Model values‑aligned, kind and accountable leadership and provide practical, respectful and timely People and Culture support.
- Support managers to fulfil their people‑management accountabilities and build their confidence and capability rather than routinely transferring management responsibility to the People and Culture function.
- Work collaboratively with the Executive Director: People and Culture and other portfolio roles, contributing hands‑on support where team capacity, complexity or priorities require it.

Work Health and Safety

- Implement and support workforce and psychosocial WHS processes, consultation, wellbeing, injury management and return to work activities within established organisational frameworks and delegated authority.
- Work collaboratively with the Safety Officer and managers on workforce WHS and psychosocial matters while preserving manager

📌 MANAGER: PEOPLE (New South Wales)
🏢 Blue Sky Community Services
📍 New South Wales