The role 

Join our team to play a pivotal role in managing a variety of workplace relations matters, initiatives, and projects, including enterprise bargaining negotiations, dispute resolution, and emergent issues. You will be instrumental in developing, implementing, and maintaining policies, processes, and internal controls for certified agreement review projects, ensuring efficient delivery. Coordinating project timelines, budgets, finances, and technical aspects will be key to achieving milestones within approved criteria and deadlines.

Your expertise will be crucial in providing strategic advice, preparing reports, submissions, briefing notes, ministerial correspondence, and policy documentation to support project decision-making. Additionally, you will oversee, monitor, and report on project progress, analyzing performance trends and offering advice on potential mitigation strategies.

The successful person

You will have demonstrated:

• Proven track record in managing competing priorities to deliver high-quality work promptly and accurately for diverse stakeholders.
• Experience in problem identification, analysis, and implementation of remedial strategies with initiative and accountability.
• Proficiency in preparing, monitoring, and reporting on program/project budgets, with a clear understanding of pressures affecting the HPDO3 certified agreement review projects timetable.
• Active participation in a work environment that upholds core values and promotes quality human resource management practices, including employment equity, anti-discrimination, workplace health and safety, and ethical behavior.

About us

The Department of Health is responsible for the overall management of the public health system in Queensland.  We are an organisation that strongly believes in the need to work with people who value the goals of our organisation and who will thrive in our workplace.  Working at the Department of Health is about making a difference.

The Human Resources Branch collaborates with stakeholders throughout Queensland Health to implement human resource strategies and support the development of our workforce in delivering high-quality healthcare to Queenslanders. The branch offers diverse human resource services aimed at attracting and retaining staff, fostering workforce culture and capability, establishing and maintaining employment arrangements, overseeing workforce performance, and ensuring compliance with statutory obligations of the department. 

Benefits

• A fast-paced, challenging and supportive environment
• Competitive salary + generous superannuation and leave loading
• Flexible working arrangements
• Diverse work culture
• Career training and development

How to apply

To apply for this opportunity:

• Please submit your resume (maximum 6 pages including the details of two referees), and
• A short-written response (maximum 1-2 pages, dot points acceptable) on how your experience, abilities, knowledge and personal qualities would enable you to achieve the role fit and meet the key responsibilities of the role.