About the Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Lead – Workplace Relations to join our People & Culture team and lead critical, organisation-wide initiatives across workplace relations.This is a high-impact role focused on delivering key programs of work including workplace wage assurance and the overseeing of Enterprise Agreement negotiations. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring compliant, sustainable and contemporary workplace practices across a large, complex and nationally dispersed organisation.

Working closely with senior leaders and subject matter experts, you will translate strategy into practical outcomes—balancing technical excellence, stakeholder alignment, and business impact.

Your Impact

In this role, you will:

• Lead end-to-end delivery of major Workplace Relations projects, including:
  • Wage assurance, compliance and remediation programs
  • Enterprise agreement bargaining and implementation
• Drive the development and execution of project strategies, plans and governance frameworks
• Partner with Industrial Relations specialists, legal advisors, payroll and operational leaders to ensure robust and compliant outcomes
• Manage complex stakeholder environments, ensuring clear, timely and effective communication across all levels of the organisation
• Translate industrial and legislative requirements into practical, operationally viable solutions
• Anticipate, assess and manage risks, including regulatory, financial and reputational impacts
• Lead business engagement and change activities to support adoption of new agreements, frameworks and ways of working
• Ensure alignment between workplace relations initiatives and broader organisational strategy, systems and processes

About You

You are a commercially minded and outcomes-driven leader who thrives in complex environments and can confidently lead high-profile, high-risk Workplace Relations programs.

You will bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale Workplace Relations or Industrial Relations projects, ideally including wage compliance/remediation and enterprise bargaining
• Strong technical understanding of Australian employment legislation, Modern Awards and Enterprise Agreements
• Proven ability to draw on and coordinate specialist expertise (IR, legal, payroll, systems) to deliver integrated outcomes
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including experience working with executive leadership and unions
• Strong project leadership capability, with experience managing multiple workstreams, competing priorities and tight timeframes
• Ability to balance technical WR requirements with commercial, operational and people considerations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distil complex issues into clear and actionable insights
• Experience working in complex, multi-site or highly regulated environments (aged care, health, community services or similar highly regarded)

About Us

BaptistCare is a leading purpose-led care organisation, guided by our Christian identity and serving people and communities across Australia for more than 110 years. We support people to live better through aged care, home care, retirement living, community services, disability support and housing.

We know that life’s challenges can make our world feel smaller. With the right people alongside us, it can feel more connected, supported and hopeful again.

That’s what we work towards every day - enriching lives through communities of care. Today, more than 70,000 customers, 12,000 employees and close to 2,000 volunteers are part of our communities across Australia.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date. The closing date is subject to change without notice.

Successful candidates will be subject to a variety of background checks including a national criminal history check, reference checks and, if applicable, WWCC, NDIS worker screening check and a pre-employment medical.

BaptistCare – Inspired by Jesus to champion care for all

Recruitment agencies please note: This position is being managed directly by our internal Talent Acquisition team. We respectfully request that recruitment agencies refrain from contacting any employees directly as all communications must go through the Talent Acquisition. Unsolicited candidate profiles or CVs from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. Thank you.