Opera Australia is one of the most distinctive workplaces in the country. Our people design, build and perform work of extraordinary scale and ambition, and safety is central to making that possible. This is a rare opportunity to bring your WHS expertise to an organisation where the work genuinely matters and no two weeks look the same.
Reporting to the Head of Safety and Wellbeing, the WHS Business Partner is the hands-on WHS presence across our diverse teams. You’ll help deliver OA SAFE, our work health and safety program, by advising leaders, supporting risk, incident and injury management processes, and building safety capability across the business. You’ll also contribute to practical WHS improvement projects that strengthen the way safety is understood, managed and embedded across OA.
You're an experienced WHS professional who enjoys partnering with people to improve safety outcomes. You combine strong technical knowledge with a practical, collaborative approach and are confident influencing stakeholders across a diverse organisation.
You bring sound judgement and genuine initiative. You work well within direction, manage competing project and BAU priorities without dropping either, and know when to make the call yourself and when to escalate.
Opera Australia (OA) is Australia's national opera company and one of the country's leading performing arts organisations. With more than 500 performances each year, we bring world-class opera, musicals and concerts to audiences across Australia while nurturing Australian talent on and off the stage.
Guided by our values of Curious, Creative, Collaborative, Brave and Inclusive, we offer:
If this sounds like the opportunity you've been looking for, we'd love to hear from you.
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Applications close: 23 October 2026
For any enquiries about this role, please contact people@opera.org.au.
Opera Australia recognises and acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters across Australia on which we live, perform and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present. We recognise, celebrate and respect all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first storytellers who carry the cultural wisdom, traditions and Dreaming of this ancient land.
Opera Australia is committed to enabling and preserving a culture of inclusion and connectedness. Our team comes from all walks of life. We acknowledge that individual differences, life experiences, self-expression and talent strengthen our culture and reputation. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring in terms of education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression.
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.
