Manager, Human Resources

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As Our Manager Human Resources, You Will

• Provide key leadership and strategy to support the Executive Program Director, Directors, and the leadership team to deliver contemporary human resource strategy and operations across a broad range of areas including, industrial and employee relations, organisational design, workforce planning and reporting, recruitment and selection, work health and safety and learning and development.
  
  
  

Just imagine what you could achieve with us.

The Opportunity As Our Manager Human Resources, You Will

• Provide key leadership and strategy to support the Executive Program Director, Directors, and the leadership team to deliver contemporary human resource strategy and operations across a broad range of areas including, industrial and employee relations, organisational design, workforce planning and reporting, recruitment and selection, work health and safety and learning and development.
• Analyse human resource risk and/or opportunity, interrogate data, and undertake research to generate options and solutions consistent with contemporary human resource best practice.
• Advise on awards, industrial instruments, directives and entitlements in order to provide high level strategic and tactical direction to resolve complex workforce and employee matters with the Executive Program Director, Directors and leadership team members.
• Ensure the efficient organisation and operation of the Human Resources, Work Health and Safety and Learning and Development teams in the delivery of services for the Program.
• Actively build executive and leadership team member skills and capabilities through effective training, development and coaching activities and opportunities.
• Strengthen relationships and create working partnerships and a high level of understanding of client needs to facilitate quality human resource management, work health and safety and learning and development practices that support the workforce.
• Prepare high level reports, submissions, briefing notes and other correspondence of a substantial and complex nature in relation to a range of human resources, work health and safety and learning and development issues.
• Present and facilitate briefings and workshops for management and staff where required.
• Contribute to the evaluation of human resources, work health and safety services and learning and development and initiatives to ensure these are prioritised and directed to support Program outcomes.
• Build stakeholder relationships to ensure human resource, work health and safety and learning and development activities and outcomes are aligned to program and government priorities and initiatives.
• Maintain good knowledge of contemporary human resource management, work health and safety and learning and development practices to ensure currency of knowledge and skills and service outcomes for clients.
  
  
  

Licences And Registrations

• A current unrestricted ‘C' class drivers' licence.
  
  
  

Why join the department? (benefits):

The work we do is widespread and varied, but our people are united by an innate sense of purpose, and a passion to serve their fellow Queenslanders. Our people are talented, down-to-earth and resilient, and the work they do every day fills them with gratification and pride. This is what keeps them coming back.

Here are some other reasons why our people choose us:

• Have visible impact in your community, and directly contribute to making Queensland a better place to live.
• Flexible working options that encourage a healthy work-life balance.
• Salary sacrificing options and competitive superannuation.
• A variety of fantastic leave benefits, supported across the broader Queensland public sector.
• Access to confidential and free counselling for you and your immediate family members through our Employee Assistance Program.
• We are committed to preventing violence against women and are proud to be a White Ribbon accredited workplace.
  
  
  

Join us and help preserve and protect Queensland's biosecurity.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/622143/25

Closing Date: Monday, 10 March 2025

Occupational group Management