Job Description

• Drive meaningful organisation-wide capability and culture programs.
• Flexible hybrid working with most of your week spent working from home.
• 12-month contract opportunity available full-time or 0.8 FTE.

About the role:
Reporting to the Head of Organisational Culture & Capability, you will lead the design and delivery of impactful enterprise-wide culture, leadership and talent initiatives that create measurable business and people outcomes.

You’ll blend strategic thinking, practical hands-on delivery and stakeholder influence to drive multiple initiatives that strengthen culture, engagement, leadership capability and organisational effectiveness. Operating with end-to-end accountability, you will lead assigned initiatives from concept through to implementation, adoption and continuous improvement, ensuring solutions are practical, engaging and aligned to business priorities.

Specifically, this will include:
• Designing and delivering impactful organisational culture and capability programs that strengthens our desired culture and peoples’ capability.
• Developing and embedding leadership frameworks and programs that strengthen leadership capability and shape future leadership pipelines
• Translating engagement, workforce and culture insights into meaningful actions and interventions
• Partnering with senior leaders, P&C teams and business stakeholders to deliver integrated people solutions, informed by data and insights and best practice
• Working with the D&I Specialist to deliver on D&I Strategy, Reconciliation Action Plan and Gender Equality priorities.
• Delivering employee engagement and listening programs, including survey design and insights analysis, reporting and recommending organisational activity to uplift employee engagement.
• Evolving and embedding our Employee Value Proposition (EVP) and employee experience
• Contributing to strategic workforce and organisational planning.
Managing external partners and vendors to deliver high-quality outcomes

To be considered:
You are a strategic and outcome minded professional who thrives in complex, evolving environments. You’re equally comfortable influencing senior stakeholders and rolling up your sleeves to deliver practical outcomes and driving continuous improvement.

We also seek:
• Deep experience designing, developing and delivering culture, leadership and capability programs, frameworks and initiatives
• Proven ability to lead initiatives from concept through to execution and embedment on time and in budget.
• Strong project and stakeholder management capability
• Strong consulting, influencing and communication skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret people data to inform decision-making
• Experience working across multiple stakeholders and priorities in a complex environment
• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking capability
• Self-starter with the ability to thrive in a fast paced and transforming organisation.

Qualifications or accreditations such as Prosci, Hogan or HBDI and Tertiary qualifications in HR, Organisational Psychology, Business, Learning & Development or a related discipline are preferred and highly regarded.
Why you’ll love working with us:

People First Bank – our new brand – says exactly what we’re all about: people. We're committed to supporting and growing our team and creating an outstanding work environment.

You’ll have access to financial and lifestyle benefits to support your success and individuality:

• Flexibility and hybrid working arrangements.
• Extend your salary with discounts on banking, health insurance, and shopping across Australia.
• Advance your career with training, study support, and project opportunities.
• Competitive leave benefits that empower employees to take time for themselves and loved ones.
• Wellbeing support with our Employee Assistance Program, wellbeing leave, mental health app, and mental health ambassadors’ program.
• Make a difference with paid volunteering, Workplace Giving, and diverse community initiatives.
• Be recognised for your contributions through our peer-driven recognition program.
A bit about People First Bank:

In March 2023, People’s Choice and Heritage Bank merged to form Heritage and People’s Choice Limited - Australia's leading mutual bank. We are now on an exciting journey to bring together our products, services, and technology under a single brand - People First Bank.

We have over 700,000 members and 1,900 employees, with dual head offices in Adelaide and Toowoomba, an Australian-based contact centre and branches across five states.

With a vision ‘To deliver positive change through banking’, People First Bank serves members and contributes to the community, while offering an inclusive, flexible work environment. We’re big enough to make an impact; but agile enough to influence and do interesting work.
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We are committed to diversity and inclusion and support candidate requests for adjustments to enable everyone to equitably participate in our selection process.