Human Resources Manager

As HR Manager, you'll own the full HR remit for LEAP, from workforce planning and recruitment through to employee relations, performance, culture, and compliance. You'll be a core member of our Senior Leadership Team, translating our growth plans into the workforce structures, capability, and culture we need to deliver on them.

Day to day, you'll:

Design and execute LEAP's HR strategy in direct alignment with our growth plans

Lead workforce planning and recruitment strategy to keep pace with service demand

Own employee relations, industrial relations, and award interpretation -including complex investigations and disciplinary matters

Build performance management, engagement, and retention frameworks that scale

Own the Support Worker Learning Journey and broader capability-building strategy

Lead HR policy, compliance, and employment lifecycle governance

Build and lead the HR function itself, including future direct reports

Provide strategic advice to Directors and the SLT on workforce trends, risks, and opportunities

You're a seasoned HR generalist or HR Manager with genuine strategic range -comfortable equally with SLT-level conversations about workforce planning and the hands-on realities of employee relations, IR, and compliance. You'll bring:

Substantial HR management experience, ideally including scaling a workforce through growth

Strong working knowledge of employment legislation, award interpretation, and IR/ER practice in an Australian context

Experience building HR frameworks, policies, and processes - not just administering existing ones

Confidence advising senior leaders and holding your ground on workforce strategy

Experience in the disability, health, or community services sector highly regarded, but not essential - what matters most is your ability to build and lead

An attractive salary package, negotiable based on experience

A genuine seat at the leadership table, this role reports to the Director of Operations and sits on our SLT

The opportunity to shape a growing HR function your way, backed by leadership that wants HR at the table

The chance to make a tangible difference to the people who support our Participants every day

A full-time, on-site role based in Ulverstone, in Tasmania's beautiful North-West