Group Organisational Development Consultant

Employment Type: Permanent, full time
Salary: Dependent on experience, up to $170,000 base salary (not including Super)
Location: Hybrid (3 days a week in the office)
Upload with Application: Resume and cover letter
Contact: For a copy of the position description - Nicole Anastasio [email protected]

Where there's life, there's Mercy.
Where there's care, there's You.

Through the battles and the breakthroughs, we're there. Where will you be?

For over a century, our incredible teams have provided care for people at every stage of life. Across our aged care homes, hospitals and research facilities, and across numerous cities and towns, we're on a journey to keep growing our impact for the next hundred years.

As a for-purpose organisation with over 10,000 dedicated, compassionate people, we continue to offer more services and deeper care than ever before. With Mercy, you'll have the chance to make an impact and gain experience that's hard to find elsewhere.

At Mercy Health, it's all about taking what we have and making it better.

To do that, we need you.

Join us as at Mercy Health, and help our teams deliver even greater outcomes.


About the opportunity

At Mercy Health, you'll become part of a proud history built on over 100 years of expertise, skill and care. As Group Organisational Development Consultant, you'll use your experience and insight to help achieve even more for all who need us. Key responsibilities will include:

• Culture Transformation: Lead and manage the culture transformation program, ensuring alignment with the Culture Transformation Roadmap, including pulse and regular culture surveys
• Leadership & Capability Development: Design and implement a leadership capability framework and associated development programs
• Leadership Engagement: Manage the Monthly Health Services' Leaders' Forum and support leadership engagement events (e.g., summit, leadership conference, annual townhall).
• Succession and talent development: support the Group OD&D Manager to deliver a Talent Development Program, including succession plans, retention risk assessments, talent profiles, aimed at improving our leadership pipeline and internal career mobility over time
• Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with senior leaders to embed cultural transformation, aligning with strategic business goals.
• Continuous Improvement: Evaluate and refine OD programs based on data and employee feedback.
• Deliver high-quality resources (e.g. Exec and Board papers, briefings, presentations, guides) to support organisational development initiatives.
• Provide pro-active support to the wider OD&D team as required.

What you'll bring

It takes a special kind of person to work in healthcare or community services. If you are genuinely interested in helping others, then you'll find you can build something here and find your place in a team of 10,000 hearts.

To thrive in this role, you will have:

• A positive, solutions-focused attitude with a strong sense of initiative.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading large streams of work, including culture change, organisational development, and talent development initiatives.
• Proven ability to navigate and deliver outcomes in complex, ambiguous, and evolving environments.
• Strong project and change management capability, with a track record of successful implementation, including leadership forums and events
• Proactive and engaging communication skills, adept in developing impactful resources, content, and presentations.
• A track record of strong stakeholder relationships and ability to maintain open, effective communication to resolve issues and remove barriers to success.
• A tertiary qualification in Human Resources, Organisational Psychology, or a related field.

You will also be required to provide evidence of, or in the process of obtaining:

• A current Police Record Check
• Working Rights

Ready to help us shape the future of healthcare?

Join us and make a meaningful difference in people's lives - and your career.

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Please contact us if you would like to find out more or communicate any requirements to ensure we provide you with a fair and equitable interview and selection process.

We acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples, traditional Custodians of the Land in which our Head Office is based, on traditional lands of the Kulin Nation and recognise their deep connections to the land, sea, and culture.

We extend this acknowledgment to the many Traditional Lands that we operate across Australia and pay our respects to Elders past and present.

The team at Mercy Health is as wonderfully diverse as the patients, residents, clients and communities we support. We're proud to be recognised as an Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). Mercy Health strongly encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, sexualities, genders, abilities and cultural backgrounds.