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
- 7+ years’ senior HR leadership across workforce planning, culture, change, and industrial relations
- Tertiary qualifications in HR, Industrial Relations, or Organisational Development
- Executive-level strategic contribution – you shape organisational direction, not just support it
- Genuine commitment to cultural safety, DEI, and anti-racist practice
- An understanding of trauma and its impact on workforce – this isn’t background knowledge here, it’s central to the work
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
- Above award salary with salary packaging benefits of up to $15,900 per year
- Flexible working conditions
- Modern facilities across all sites, including an onsite gym at Midland
- PD Allowance – a committed investment in your professional development
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
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.
