Vacancy title:
Associate Director, HR Business Partners

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Health Care, Category: Human Resources,Management,Business Operations,Civil & Government]

Jobs at:
Hunter New England Local Health District

Deadline of this Job:
Sunday, June 14 2026

Duty Station:
Waratah | Newcastle NSW

Summary
Date Posted: Monday, June 1 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Looking for a role that goes beyond the ordinary in HR Business Partnering and Customer Service? This is your chance to take on a unique challenge, elevate your career, and reach new heights!

Impactful Leadership: Take on a high-level management role reporting to the Executive Director of People and Culture, where you’ll lead, motivate, and oversee the HR Business Partnering function. In this critical position, you’ll drive a transformation of proactive policies and actions to ensure the District meets its core responsibilities. This is your opportunity to shape strategic initiatives, foster a culture of best practices, uplift customer engagement and advocacy and deliver measurable improvement outcomes.

Diverse and Exciting Work: Enjoy a role where no two days are the same! You’ll collaborate with a team of experienced subject matter experts and engage in a wide variety of clinical and corporate areas. From making an impact on rural and regional health, to supporting excellence every patient, every time, the opportunities to work with a community of committed colleagues is inspiring.

Strategic Initiatives and Capability Building: As a leader, you will build team capability through coaching and mentoring, fostering a high-performing culture, and leading strategic and operational projects aimed at achieving organisational objectives, raising employee engagement and cultural transformation.

Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: This is a rare opportunity to influence key organisational outcomes. Within this role, you will collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to drive effective change, lead the development, implementation, and review of relevant policies and programs, and ensure ongoing strengthening of relationships across departments to support continuous improvement.

For more information on the role, click here for a copy of the Position Description

We are seeking a motivated leader and experienced people and culture manager to step into a high-profile role within a large, complex organisation. This role is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact while leading teams across diverse and fascinating areas within one of the largest local health districts within NSW Health.

Proven Expertise: Extensive experience in a similar role with a strong track record in people management, HR business partnering, industrial relations, workforce planning, and change management.

Relevant Background: Tertiary qualifications in Human Resources Management, Employee Relations, Business or other relevant field, or equivalent extensive experience in a senior HR, Industrial Relations position in a large and complex organisation.

Leadership Excellence: A passion for coaching, mentoring and fostering growth and development within your team, along with high-level leadership skills and experience in developing HR, workforce planning, and employee relations capability within a large and complex organisation.

Exceptional Skills: Outstanding stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to consult, negotiate, and influence at all levels, as well as strong analytical and reporting skills, enabling you to interpret complex data and deliver actionable insights.

Dedication and Commitment: You are someone who routinely goes above and beyond for your team and organisation. Your dedication, energy, and drive make you an invaluable asset, ready to take on this exciting challenge and add value to the organisation.

The Hunter New England Local Health District landscape spanning over 131,785 square kilometres is distinct, unique, and impressive, incorporating stunning coastlines, magnificent mountain ranges, and rich agricultural plains. We are the only district in New South Wales with a major metropolitan centre, several large regional centres, and many smaller rural centres and remote communities within its borders.

Our team culture is built on equality, respect, and compassionate leadership, creating a supportive and future-focused environment. This new invigorating role will boost the leadership within the HR Business Partnering team and enable a comprehensive review of how this service can be improved for the whole of the organisation.

Step into a transformative role where you’ll have the autonomy, innovation, and challenge you’ve been seeking to put your mark on best practices within the HR space. As part of our team, you’ll drive high-level change and make a lasting impact on workforce strategy, employee relations, and organisational culture. We offer the opportunity to take on an autonomous role driving a district-wide team based anywhere within the picturesque Hunter or Lower Mid-North Coast region of NSW.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: postgraduate degree

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