2024 & 2026 | People and Culture Business Partner | Melbourne
The Role
Partnered with managers across Melbourne Theatre Company to strengthen workplace culture, systems, and compliance. Focused on health and safety, policy and procedure development, recruitment, and the design and implementation of the company’s SharePoint platforms to improve communication and accessibility across departments.
The Work
- Supported leaders in employee relations, performance management, and compliance
- Managed end-to-end recruitment processes, supporting leaders with position scoping, advertising, candidate management, and onboarding
- Led the Health and Safety Committee, fostering a culture of accountability and wellbeing across all departments
- Reviewed and maintained policies and procedures
- Designed and implemented SharePoint sites to streamline internal communication and access to HR systems and resources
- Collaborated with stakeholders to maintain accurate documentation for policy, health, and compliance reporting
- Contributed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives through committee involvement
- Partnered with internal teams to drive process improvements and embed safe, inclusive workplace practices
The Outcome
Strengthened Melbourne Theatre Company’s people systems and culture by leading safety, recruitment, and digital transformation initiatives — helping build a more connected, transparent, and supportive workplace.
Returned to Melbourne Theatre Company in 2026 on a short-term contract to help steady the People and Culture function through a leadership transition, after both the Director of People and Culture and the resident Business Partner departed.
About This Project
At Melbourne Theatre Company, we’re for stories. The stories less told, the stories told before and the stories yet to be told.
As Victoria’s state theatre company and a department of the University of Melbourne, we deliver an irresistible annual program of live performance and related activity at our Southbank Theatre home and as resident theatre company at Arts Centre Melbourne. With MTC Digital Theatre our productions can be streamed at home, around Australia.
Over 70 years we have presented more than 850 productions and been at the forefront of ground-breaking new work that has shaped artists, audiences and the country.
