About the Organisation

Redland City Council is a progressive local government organisation, situated on the naturally wonderful Redlands Coast near Brisbane, home to the crystal blue waters of Southern Moreton Bay with 335km of coastline, beautiful hinterland and coastal villages. The region enjoys a strong heritage, connections to the oldest living culture on Earth, with island gems just a short hop from Brisbane.

With a current population of almost 160,000 and strong population growth forecasts, the Council is forward thinking, engaged and focused on enriching community lifestyles operating under the four principles of sustainability of balancing decisions through consideration of environmental, community, economic and governance impacts.

For an overview of Council’s Vision, Mission and Values, please click the below link: https://www.redland.qld.gov.au/info/20193/our_organisation/339/our_vision_mission_and_values   

About the Position

Reporting directly to Chief Executive Officer, the Executive Group Manager People, Culture and Organisational Performance will support the overall stewardship of Council by working in partnership and collaboration across the organisation to deliver strategies, quality operational services, projects and initiatives.  This will include overseeing corporate strategy and business transformation, health, safety and wellbeing and the human resources functions of Council.

You will be an integral member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and be instrumental in the future success of Council through visionary leadership and focusing on safety, performance, financial sustainability and continuous improvement. This will be achieved through promoting a values-based culture and delivery of targeted human resource policy, strategy and advice to enable employee growth and capability.

In addition, you will oversee projects relating to cultural change, attraction and retention of talent, enterprise bargaining, psychosocial safety and corporate planning. This role will provide expert advice, reporting and service to the Mayor, CEO and Councillors in a complex legislative system and sensitive environment.

About the Person

We are seeking a highly experienced human resources executive with extensive knowledge of contemporary HR and WH&S concepts, business transformation, strategies and legislation who can integrate into corporate strategies which balances employee needs with organisational outcomes.  In addition, you will have previously led a large and diverse HR team in a complex organisational setting and have a broad understanding of emerging trends across WH&S, IR, organisational development, performance management, strategy and transformation, attraction and retention and HR information systems and technology.

Key to your success will be exceptional communication and negotiation skills, high levels of resilience and an ability to effectively build positive relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders including executives, operational staff and elected officials.  In addition, you will possess demonstrated success in leading and building organisational capability and change management experience across restructures and cultural change programs.
  
To request a comprehensive candidate pack, please email tturner@sharpandcarter.com.au quoting reference number: 1559242, or to arrange a confidential phone briefing, please contact Tim Turner on 0414 548 052.