Senior Manager People Partners

Do you want your work to make a difference for NSW

Working to protect the states environment and heritage.

• Help shape the workforce that shapes NSW
• Permanent full-time opportunity
• Office location Parramatta hybrid working supported
• Salary relative to experience and ranges from $173121 to $191993 super

The Department of Climate Change Energy the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) is seeking an experienced Senior Manager People Partners to provide strategic people leadership to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) one of the most complex and operationally unique workforces in the NSW public sector.

NPWS manages more than 890 parks and reserves across NSW delivering essential frontline services including conservation biodiversity protection tourism fire and emergency response and engagement with local and Aboriginal communities. The workforce spans park rangers fire management and fieldbased staff alongside professional technical and corporate roles across remote regional and metropolitan locations.

Operating at the intersection of strategic workforce leadership and operational delivery this role partners closely with the NPWS Senior Leadership Team to design and deliver people strategies that enable organisational performance both now and into the future. The environment is highrisk unionised and closely scrutinised requiring a senior leader with strong judgement credibility and pragmatism.

As a senior leader within People and Culture you will lead a team of People Partners set practice standards lift capability and ensure consistent highquality advice across complex employee relations workforce change and organisational transformation.

The impact youll have

Our workforce spans operational and bluecollar teams through to technical specialists and senior executives. The industrial landscape is complex the scrutiny is high and the work we do matters.

You will be the strategic people advisor to senior executives navigating:

• major organisational change and MoG transitions
• contested people matters and strong union environments
• excess management executive mobility and defensible role matching
• highrisk workforce decisions with wholeofagency impact

Youll lead a team that partners proactively a leader who can translate complexity into practical defensible people solutions enabling NPWS to remain resilient futurefocused and fit for purpose.

What youll lead

• A senior People Partnering team setting practice standards and lifting capability
• Strategic partnering with executives on complex workforce issues
• Organisational design people change and workforce planning initiatives
• Enterprisefocused riskaware partnering (not reactive or transactional work)
• Trusted relationships with executives unions and key stakeholders
• Compliance and defensible decisionmaking aligned with public sector legislation and industrial instruments

About You

You are a seasoned people leader with a strong track record as a trusted advisor to senior executives in complex operational and highrisk environments.

You bring credibility with frontline and fieldbased leaders where workforce decisions have realworld impacts on safety service delivery and community outcomes. You are confident operating in unionised environments and navigating contested people matters with judgement fairness and clarity.

You have proven experience across:

• Complex employee relations performance and conduct matters
• Organisational change restructures and workforce reform
• Excess management executive mobility and defensible role matching
• Public sector employment legislation senior executive frameworks and industrial instruments

With strong strategic capability you excel at translating organisational priorities into practical people strategies spanning workforce planning culture leadership development and engagement. You are an influential communicator a skilled negotiator and known for lifting the quality and judgement of senior People Partners.

Essential Requirements

• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• Extensive knowledge of human resources management issues and relevant legislation regulations policies and systems.

For more information read the full Role Description: Senior Manager People Partners

Who we are

The Department of Climate Change Energy the Environment and Water(DCCEEW) works to protect the states environment and heritage. It leads the way on climate change driving the sustainable transition to a net zero economy powered by affordable reliable and clean energy.

DCCEEW conserves and protects the states natural environment. It manages the NSW national park estate including its rich and diverse biodiversity and Aboriginal cultural heritage for future generations.

DCCEEW also ensures sustainable management of water resources across the state to support the environment communities and industry.

We acknowledge the ongoing custodial responsibilities of the Aboriginal peoples of NSW to care for Country and water and are committed to establishing meaningful partnerships with Aboriginal peoples in the management of the environment.

To Apply

If excited by the information above we look forward to receiving your application including a copy of your resume and cover letter expressing your interest and suitability for the role.

Please note to be eligible to apply for this position you must be an Australian or New Zealand citizen or permanent resident or hold a valid Australian working Visa for the duration of the appointment.

Applications close Wednesday 29 April at 11:55PM.

Should you require further information about the role please contact Alison Bruchhauser via

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

Our goal is to build a workforce that not only represents but also understands and serves the diverse communities of New South Wales. We are committed to making our state a vibrant and inclusive place to live work and thrive for everyone. Our workforce represents people of all ages and genders Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people people with disabilities the LGBTQI community and people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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