An opportunity is available to join World Vision Australia as the Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HS&W) Manager. Reporting to the Head of People Partnerships, this role enables our people to be their best through the provision of contemporary HS&W leadership, governance, and support. This position is key in advancing and enabling a unified culture of safety, wellbeing, and operational excellence to ensure World Vision is providing quality staff care.
Key elements of success are:
Prevention, early intervention, and business wide implementation of plans to improve WHS outcomes.
Proactive management of all aspects relating to incidents, injury management and workers compensation.
Review and design employee experiences that provide contemporary care and support environment, in partnership with relevant health and wellbeing providers to promote a responsive culture requiring all our people to take reasonable care of self and others to support good health and wellbeing as well as the physical environment.
Safety, assurance and compliance and support for work related travel for World Vision Australia (WVA).
Manage internal relationships to influence effective Safety and Security outcomes and culture.
Drive a high-performance culture with team member(s) through coaching and development.
Who we're looking for:
As the successful applicant, you will have a breadth of capabilities including enthusiasm, creativity and outstanding interpersonal skills.
In addition, you will have:
Strong knowledge of Australian health and safety legislation and experience managing projects and change in systems and organisational culture.
Extensive experience in conducting investigations into work, health, and safety matters and strong technical knowledge of safety and security management principles and practices.
Proven experience in developing effective Workplace Health, Safety & Wellbeing policies and procedures.
Ability to work collaboratively with all key stakeholders.
Relevant tertiary qualification in work, health, and safety (or a related discipline) and equivalent industry experience (i.e., diploma of work health and safety) and industry experience.
Effective training, coaching and capability building.
If you have a growth mindset, a can-do attitude, and strong situational leadership capabilities, we want to hear from you!
Working for World Vision means you are making the world better. It's not every day that a job comes along that lets you change the world. Working for World Vision means looking forward to turning up at work because you know you are about to do something meaningful.
It means working with 35,000 staff and 3.3 million supporters in 100 countries who will stop at nothing to help children live better lives. Join a team that is bold and courageous, and where job satisfaction goes beyond financial reward.
The selection process:
We embrace diversity, employing people from a variety of cultural and religious backgrounds. We take our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we are committed to providing an environment that is safe for children. Our stringent recruitment procedures make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. All successful candidates will undergo all required pre-employment checks which is inclusive of a criminal record check. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support, and training in their work with vulnerable children and their families.
World Vision Australia participates in the Inter-Agency Scheme for the Disclosure of Safeguarding-related Misconduct in Recruitment Process within the Humanitarian and Development Sector.
Who we are:
World Vision is a Christian organisation that empowers everyday Australians to create meaningful change for children through relief, development and advocacy work.
We offer great benefits such as salary packaging, leave loading, flexible working arrangements, free on-site secure parking, an onsite gym and café for our employees.
For more information on World Vision and the work we do, please visit our website: https://www.worldvision.com.au/about-us
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