• Employment Type: Full time
• Duration: Continuing
• Remuneration: $148K - $157K + 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading
• Location: Kensington (Hybrid Flexible Working)

About UNSW:

UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. It’s the reason we’re one of the top 20 universities in the world (QS top 20) and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight. If you want a career where you can thrive, be challenged and do meaningful work, you’re in the right place.

Why Your Role Matters:

The Senior Health & Safety Advisor Estates & Contractors delivers and facilitates high-level frontline Health & Safety products and services across Estates & Contractors, ensuring visibility and availability of Advisors and responding dynamically to changing business needs.

The role plans operational activities and resource provision and supports both BAU reactive work and planned risk management activities, ensuring a tailored, consistent stakeholder experience and high-quality Health & Safety customer support across the Estates & Contractors portfolio. Working closely with the Head of Health & Safety Estates & Contractors and H&S Partners, the role ensures that front line services are delivered as required across key risk portfolios, including hazard & incident support, risk assessments, assurance activities (inspections, audits, control verification), consultation, coaching, training, and expert technical advice.

The position liaises with the H&S Performance and Improvement team to ensure Advisors lead and participate in transformational projects and initiatives, and ensures appropriate provision of analytics and reporting that improves risk visibility and enables good decision making.

The Senior Advisor ensures that Advisors provide expert advice and support across the portfolio to enable leaders to meet their H&S accountabilities and guarantees robust support enabling the achievement of safe and sustainable outcomes. Functioning as a key service delivery leader, the role enables delivery of integrated, best-in-class health and safety solutions

Who You Are:

• Extensive experience as a senior Health & Safety Advisor or Partners in in multisite operations, facilities/estates or contractor heavy environments.
• Relevant tertiary qualification with significant and sustained relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
• Proven capability in front-line H&S Advisor service provision including complex risk assessment methodology, incident management and investigation, assurance activities, consultation, and the design and implementation of risk mitigation solutions.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and coaching skills, with a track record of building strategic relationships and influencing at all levels.
• Advanced expertise in contractor management and oversight of high-risk work in an estates and contractor management context.
• Track record of continuous improvement and service delivery, with demonstrated success achieving safe outcomes on initiatives through a collaborative approach.
• Ability to act as technical expert for the design and delivery of training programs relating to health and safety. Data literacy, quality control understanding, and ability to interpret insights to drive improvements.
• Ability to support front-line leadership in planning for and responding to physical and psychological health risks including facilitation of cross functional case management response relating to injuries.
• Knowledge of workers compensation and injury management to enable front-line triage and response for potential psychological injury.
• Knowledge of psychosocial risk and integration of Health & Wellbeing considerations into operational practice.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, with a high level of attention to detail for deliverables produced.

Benefits and Culture: People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world. Our benefits include: 

• Salary packaging options, including novated leasing.
• Generous leave entitlements, including an additional 3 paid days off over end of year holiday period.
• Access to Fitness Passport, giving you and your family discounted access to hundreds of gyms, pools and fitness facilities.
• Career development opportunities, including access to leadership and professional learning programs.
• Discounts and perks across retail, travel, education and health services.
• A supportive, flexible, and inclusive culture that values wellbeing and diversity.

Find out more about staff benefits at UNSW.

How to Apply: 

Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your application online before Wednesday 4th Feb at 11:55pm. A copy of the Position Description can be found on jobs@UNSW.   

Get in Touch: 

For questions regarding the recruitment process - Please contact Kim Symons (Talent Acquisition Manager) E: k.symons@unsw.edu.au

Please apply through the application portal and not via the contacts above.

Pre-Employment Checks
 Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.

These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:- 

• National and International Criminal history checks
• Entitlement to work and ID checks
• Working With Children Checks
• Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
• Verification of relevant qualifications
• Verification of relevant professional membership
• Employment history and reference checks
• Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
• Medical Checks and Assessments

Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.