Strategic People Partner

About Us    

At Development Victoria, we’re passionate about making Victoria a great place to be. We create vibrant places across our state, through diverse and strategic property development and urban renewal projects.    

As the Victorian Government’s development arm, we revitalise iconic public buildings, create important community, creative and sporting facilities and repurpose public land, for all Victorians. We also build great homes and communities where people and businesses can thrive, catering for different budgets, lifestyles, and people - designed to be sustainable and affordable.    

Your New Role

As a Strategic People Partner, you will align people strategies with business priorities to improve organisational performance, strengthen workforce capability and manage people-related risk. Using workforce data, analytics and insights, you will influence decision-making, support organisational change and help build high-performing, engaged and future-ready teams.

Working with senior leaders as a trusted advisor, you will provide strategic guidance on workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, talent, leadership capability, culture, employee experience and complex people matters.  You will play a key role orchestrating the design and delivery of people solutions, leveraging the combined capability of the broader People, Culture and Communications team to address business challenges and opportunities.

Your manager is an accomplished HR executive with a strong track record in leading people strategies, developing talent, navigating complex employee relations matters, and building high-performing teams. As a transparent, authentic and empowering leader, she offers the successful candidate the opportunity to learn from a breadth of experience, build strong stakeholder management skills and gain valuable exposure to navigating complex organisational environments.

This is an ongoing, hybrid opportunity with the flexibility to work from our head office in Melbourne CBD and working from home.

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Core Accountabilities: 

• Advise executives and people leaders on workforce, organisational capability and people-related matters.
• Influence business decisions through evidence-based insights, constructive challenge and practical recommendations.
• Lead and support organisational change and business transformation initiatives, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement and adoption.
• Identify and manage people-related risks while balancing organisational performance, employee experience and operational needs.
• Work with leaders to understand strategic priorities and translate them into current and future workforce requirements.
• Develop workforce strategies that address capability gaps, succession needs, talent risks and organisational growth.
• Support career development, talent mobility and leadership development initiatives.
• Translate employee listening insights into practical actions that improve engagement and performance.
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive and high-performing workplace culture.
• Partner with the Employee Relations team to support leaders to manage employee matters fairly, effectively and in line with organisational values.
• Provide advice on performance, employee relations and complex workplace matters.
• Ensure people decisions comply with employment legislation, policies and enterprise agreements.

About You

You’re an experienced Strategic People Partner with a demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships, influence senior leaders and provide advice on complex people matters. You enjoy the variety that this role brings, where no two days are ever the same.

The key qualifications, skills and experience we are looking for are:

• Degree qualification in Human Resources, Business, Organisational Psychology, or a related discipline.
• AHRI certification or postgraduate qualifications in Human Resources, Organisational Development or a related field are desirable.
• Experience developing workforce strategies aligned to business priorities, including workforce planning, organisational design and transformation.
• Proven capability in talent management, succession planning, leadership development and coaching.
• Employee relations expertise, including management of complex workplace matters, employment risk and compliance obligations.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using workforce data, metrics and insights to inform strategic decisions.
• Well-developed coaching, facilitation, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance organisational performance, employee experience, operational needs and risk management.

Employee Benefits    

• We drive strong collaboration and support our teams to work virtually and flexibly.    
• Professional development opportunities available including;     
  • Study support    
  • Mentoring programs    
  • Opportunity to participate in cross functional working groups that drive diversity and inclusion and sustainability initiatives.    
• Novated leasing    
• Purchase leave    
• Paid parental leave    
• Technology salary sacrifice    
• Employee referral bonuses     
• Health & Wellbeing initiatives such as EAP and mental health and wellbeing leave    
• Access to group life & group salary continuance insurance    
• Modern onsite facilities    

What next?    

• Please apply via our careers page linked to this advertisement, applications will not be accepted via email.     
• Advert may close prior to the closure date if a high volume of applications is received, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
• Please note: The preferred candidate will be required to complete a national police record check prior to an offer of employment being made.    
• At Development Victoria, we work flexibly and value diversity, and we invite you to talk to us about any preferences or adjustments you may value or require to either our recruitment process or the role itself. If you identify as a person with disability, please let us know how we can provide additional support to your application.    

Please submit your application by 11:59pm Thursday 10th September 2026. Applications received after this date may not be considered.    

If you have any questions about the role, please get in touch with our Recruitment Team via email - recruitment.enquiries@development.vic.gov.au

We respectfully request no agency approaches. We will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes being sent to anyone here in our business.