Chief People Officer

About This Role

This executive role is responsible for shaping the workforce, leadership, and structures that drive organizational performance for Marist180. The Chief People Officer will act as a trusted advisor to the CEO, working with the Executive and Board to build the people foundations for the organization's next stage of growth.

Responsibilities

• Use workforce data to expose risk, focus investment, and improve organizational performance
• Assess organizational design, layers, spans, and capability, then help leaders make and sustain the changes
• Build psychologically safe, compliant environments across a dispersed, award-based workforce
• Give managers the frameworks, confidence, and accountability to lead people well
• Balance purpose, performance, and finite resources without exhausting the people delivering the mission

Requirements

• Think like an operator, understanding how people decisions influence service quality, margin, risk, and growth
• Comfortable reading a P&L, challenging assumptions, and translating strategy into practical systems, structures, and behaviors
• Led through change and can point to what shifted
• High EQ
• Executive-level People & Culture experience, ideally from a complex service organization where people capability is central to success
• Familiar with organizational design, leadership development, industrial relations, safety, reward, and culture transformation
• Relevant tertiary qualifications preferred
• Align strongly with Marist values and can lead authentically within a Catholic, mission-led organization
• Listen before prescribing, candid and discreet
• Build trust across an organization, stay close to the work, and do not avoid difficult conversations
• Can be a CEO's sounding board while bringing an independent view

Benefits

• Opportunity to strengthen the workforce, leadership, and culture behind a growing organization
• Genuine influence alongside the CEO, Executive, and Board

Application Process

• Apply through SEEK

About the Company

Marist180 supports young people facing disadvantage through care, accommodation, education, and employment pathways. Across more than 50 homes in NSW and the ACT, with services in Queensland, its 620 employees support approximately 1,300 people each year.