Senior Manager People, Culture and Transformation

International Women's Development Agency

Employment Type Full time 1.0 FTE

Location Hybrid ·Melbourne, Australia Melbourne CBD (hybrid work from home and two days in the office)

Team P&C;

Seniority Senior

Job Description

As Senior Manager People, Culture & Transformation, you’ll connect strategy, P&C; operations and organisational development to embed our new structure, strengthen organisational capability and sustain a culture grounded in feminist, anti-racist and decolonial principles across our systems, policies and ways of working.

About IWDA

International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) is an Australian-based organisation, resourcing diverse women’s rights organisations (WROs) primarily in the Asia and the Pacific. We provide support that goes beyond money and contribute to global feminist movements to advance our vision of gender equality for all.

Our Vision: Gender equality for all

Our Purpose: To defend and advance the rights of women, girls and gender diverse people

We are committed to building a resilient and relevant feminist and decolonial organisation, and to becoming an explicitly anti-racist organisation. Anchored by lessons from our 40-year history and guided by fiercely held feminist and decolonial values, our Strategic Plan 2025 - 2035 lays out IWDA’s path towards realising our vision of gender equality for all.

Our strategic goals are to shift resources to women’s rights organisations, strengthen feminist movements, advance feminist and decolonial knowledge, and model a different way of being as a feminist organisation.

At IWDA, how we work is as important as what we do.



Our 4S Framework guides us to step up and use our power to create change, stand with feminist movements in solidarity, step back when others are better placed to lead, and sit with uncertainty through deep listening and collective learning.

As a key leadership role at IWDA, you’ll sustain and strengthen our culture through collective effort, ensuring we continue to support our people and foster an organisation where everyone feels valued, respected and able to contribute meaningfully to our feminist mission. You’ll lead the P&C; function, with the P&C; Manager reporting to you, ensuring our people practices and services meet the needs of the organisation and our staff.

This is an opportunity to build on the strong cultural foundations thoughtfully established at IWDA and strengthen how we work together and support our people through change. You’ll help challenge any power imbalances and put our feminist, anti-racist and decolonial commitments into practice, building a workplace grounded in equity, dignity, inclusion and accountability.

Key Responsibilities

Align P&C; strategy with IWDA’s strategic priorities, embedding feminist, anti-racist and decolonial principles.

Provide strategic advice on workforce planning, organisational design, employee and industrial relations, remuneration and organisational change.





Ensure effective, compliant and consistent delivery of P&C; services across the employee lifecycle.

Lead workforce and succession planning, remuneration frameworks and equitable, transparent employment practices.

Oversee people policies and complex employee matters, addressing systemic bias and promoting fair, respectful and trauma-informed practices.

Lead employee listening, analyse workforce data and report insights to inform organisational decisions and action.

Drive IWDA's progress towards becoming an anti-racist organisations.

Desired Skills and Experience

Significant experience leading People & Culture strategy, operations and services across the employee lifecycle.

Demonstrated success leading organisational culture transformation, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, or systemic change.

Strong experience in organisational development, workforce planning, change management and leadership capability development.

Sound knowledge of Australian employment legislation, including the Fair Work Act, NES and SCHADS Award.

Experience developing and implementing people policies, remuneration frameworks and practices that promote fairness, transparency and organisational effectiveness.

A Little About You

You are a strategic and relational leader who understands how power, privilege and systemic inequities shape organisational culture, decisions and people's experiences at work. You bring the qualified expertise, lived experience and reflective practice needed to lead meaningful change in a feminist organisation.

You will bring:

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