Culture, Capability & Employee Engagement Lead

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region -Connected. Liveable. Thriving, our region is a model of sustainability, where caring for our environment, creating vibrant communities and growing our local economy is a way of life.

About the Role

The People & Culture branch partners with the organisation to inspire an environment for great leadership and people capability to build on our outstanding organisation for today and the future.

As the Culture, Capability and Employee Engagement Lead, you will oversee Council’s organisational development and employee engagement initiatives that drive high level leadership capability, talent retention and positive culture outcomes.

You will build workforce capability and readiness to support Council’s role in Brisbane 2032 preparations.

You will partner with Council leaders and HR Business Partners to lead workforce planning processes, providing strategic insight and advice to anticipate future capability needs, identify critical roles and skills, and support sustainable workforce, succession and talent strategies aligned to Council’s Corporate Plan and evolving service delivery requirements.

You will lead and drive the development, implementation and evaluation of key People and Culture projects with a focus on using evidence based decision making to foster a positive employee experience, inclusive workplace culture and contributing to the shaping of the organisation for the future and demonstrating return on investment.

You will foster a workplace culture that values people, engages and empowers employees to be innovative and make decisions, maximise productivity, performance and capability, and ensure workplace behaviours are consistent with the Council’s values.

About you

As a requirement of this role, you will possess formal relevant qualifications (Degree) in Organisational Psychology, Human Resource Management, Change Management, Psychology or another relevant discipline.

You will have demonstrated facilitation, coaching and influencing skills with a range of stakeholders across large organisations.

You bring extensive relevant experience with demonstrated team leadership skills to develop team plans, systems and projects achieve team objectives and aspirations.

You have strong experience in change management projects that ensure successful adoption through sustained behaviour change.

Essential to your success you will have strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills with emphasis in the areas of public speaking, consultation, building effective relationships and teams, conflict resolution and assertiveness in order to resolve issues, meet changing organisational needs and build the Branch profile.

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2025-2030.

For specific enquiries contact Steve Eltis during business hours on 0467 450 305.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.