What This Role Is Really About
Parkerville has done the hard work - restructured, strategy set, frameworks built. We need an executive leader to bring it all to life across a trauma-informed workforce of 240+ people. This is not a transactional HR role. It's a role for someone who understands that how an organisation treats its people is inseparable from how those people treat the children and families they serve.
The Work
You'll lead our people strategy pillar, sit as a peer on our Executive Team, providing timely and accurate advice to the Corporate Executive team, and lead a team of 4.8 FTE across workforce capability, wellbeing, DEI, HR systems, remuneration, WHS, and industrial relations.
What You'll Bring
What We're Really Looking For
A wildly curious mind, a deeply engaged heart, and the courage to think beyond where HR has been toward where it needs to go. If you're energised by that prospect rather than unsettled by it, we should talk.
You'll Thrive Here If
You're as comfortable challenging the executive team as supporting them, you bring cultural humility to everything you do, and you understand that building an anti-racist organisation is active, ongoing work - not a framework to be filed.
What We Offer
Read to Apply?
Applications close 14 April 2026 - we're reviewing as they arrive. For a conversation first, contact Narelle Bonjour at narelle.bonjour@parkerville.org.au.
Parkerville CYC is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where all staff are welcomed and feel safe to be their authentic selves.
We are committed to child safety above all else. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply.
All appointments are subject to a Working With Children Check, National Police Clearance, Department of Communities 395 Check, and proof of working rights.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
