Manager People, Safety & Customer Experience - City of Wodonga

• Influence organisational performance in a key leadership role
• Lead workforce strategy, enterprise bargaining and HR transformation
• Join a high performing and future focused Council

The City of Wodonga is a progressive and community-focused regional Council, recognised for its commitment to innovation, service excellence and sustainable growth. Located in north-east Victoria on the Murray River and forming part of the dynamic Albury-Wodonga region, Wodonga combines the lifestyle and connectivity of a major regional centre with easy access to Victoria’s High Country, renowned food and wine regions and outstanding natural environments. With a strong focus on accountability, continuous improvement and delivering value for its community, Council offers a collaborative and forward-thinking environment where leaders can make a meaningful contribution to both the organisation and the wider community.

Reporting to the Director Corporate, the Manager People, Safety and Customer Experience is a key leadership position responsible for shaping and delivering contemporary people, safety and customer strategies across Council. You will provide trusted, commercially focused advice to the Executive Leadership Team while leading key priorities including enterprise bargaining, strengthening workforce planning, evolving the HR business partnering model and continuing to mature Council’s approach to health, safety and wellbeing. With a strong focus on organisational performance, you will use data and insights to inform decision-making, strengthen capability and lead change and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

To be considered for this role, you will be a contemporary and commercially minded people leader with strong experience across employee and industrial relations, workforce strategy and organisational change. Your background could come from local government, the broader public sector or a complex service-based organisation, with a proven ability to navigate sophisticated stakeholder, governance and industrial environments. An influential communicator with strong judgement, you will be comfortable advising senior executives and balancing workforce considerations with broader organisational priorities. Data-oriented and outcomes focused, you will bring the strategic capability to modernise the People function alongside the leadership breadth to oversee safety and customer experience within a complex and politically nuanced environment.

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