1d ago , from Department of Communities and Justice NSW

- Full-time, Salary: $195,114 to $218,910 p.a. plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and leave loading
- Ongoing role
- Close to Wynyard station & hybrid work arrangements available
- Contact for enquiries: Emma Cuell via **@nesa.nsw.edu.au

About us

At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we are dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.

We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).

NESA is aunique organisation in NSW (of around740FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact, visit ourwebsiteto learn more about the important work we do.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to lead NESA's People & Culture function and play a key role in supporting our people, leaders and workforce priorities.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Corporate Services, you will lead the People & Culture team to provide expert advice, strategies and services acrosspeople partnering, employee and industrial relations, workforce planning, recruitment, work health and safety, wellbeing, performance, learning and capability development.

As a trusted advisor to senior leaders,



you will help shape practical workforce solutions and drive continuous improvement that supports NESA's objectives while ensuring compliance with legislative, industrial and policy requirements.

On a day-to-day basis you will be responsible for:

- Leading the delivery of end-to-end People & Culture services.
- Developing a high-performing People & Culture team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, service excellence and continuous improvement.
- Building trusted relationships with leaders across the organisation and supporting them to effectively lead, develop and manage their teams.
- Providing high-quality strategic and operational advice to executives and people leaders on complex workforce matters, organisational risk and people management practices.
- Identifying opportunities to improve people processes, systems and services while maintaining compliance with legislative and policy requirements.
- Monitoring emerging workforce trends, risks and sector developments and translating insights into practical people solutions.
- Working closely with internal stakeholders, NSW government central agencies and external partners to deliver positive workforce outcomes for NESA.

Our ideal candidate has:





- Extensive experience leading multidisciplinary People & Culture functions within a complex public sector or heavily regulated environment.
- Demonstrated success building trusted relationships at all organisational levels providing influential advice on complex and sensitive workforce matters that balances pragmatic business outcomes and innovative solutions.
- Solid knowledge of contemporary people management, employment and industrial relations, workforce governance and best-practice People & Culture service delivery.
- Experience coaching, supporting and developing leaders to build capability, strengthen people management practices and achieve positive workforce outcomes.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the NSW education sector, including the operating environment, workforce context and stakeholder landscape across government and nongovernment school sectors.
- A strong values-based leadership approach, with a focus on building capable teams, fostering collaboration and delivering high-quality customer-focused services.
- Tertiary qualifications in human resources, employment relations, organisational psychology, business or a related discipline, and/or equivalent substantial professional experience.
- A current NSW Working with Children Check (WWCC) clearance for paid employment is required before commencing in this role. It is not required at the application stage. The cost of the WWCC clearance is the responsibility of the successful applicant.

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📌 Senior Manager, People and Culture (Sydney)
🏢 Department/Agency: NESA
📍 Sydney