Health & Safety Partner

The Opportunity

• Continuing Opportunity 2 X roles available
• 127K to 157K + 17% superannuation

As an Health & Safety Partner you will be responsible for the end-to-end Health & Safety customer support to your assigned portfolio, ensuring a tailored, consistent, high-quality stakeholder experience. As the primary Health & Safety contact for their portfolio, the role delivers both reactive and planned operational services, including risk assessments, mitigation planning, incident response, assurance activities, and coaching.

Working closely with Advisor team and the Estates & Contractors team, the Partner role ensures that the assigned portfolio receives tailored service delivery through continual enhancement of products, services, and ways of working. The role contributes significantly to the continuous improvement of Health & Safety tools, systems, and frameworks by collaborating with the Health & Safety Performance and Improvement team, advocating for the portfolio's requirements, leading and participating in transformational projects, and supporting risk visibility through analytics and reporting.

Acting as a trusted advisor, the position provides technical guidance to portfolio leaders, supports compliance with legislative and internal requirements, and contributes to university-wide safety outcomes through emergency response, strategic initiatives, and operational risk reduction.

The Organisation

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. But what makes us different isn't only what we do, it's how we do it. 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 Australia's number one university for impact and among the nation's Top 20 employers. And it's why we come to campus each day.

Benefits and Culture: 

UNSW offer a competitive salary and access to UNSW benefits including:

• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements
• Additional 3 days of leave over the Christmas Period
• Access to lifelong learning and career development
• Progressive HR practices
• Discounts and entitlements 
• On-site parking available

Who you are

Level 8:

• Strong experience as a Health & Safety Advisor or Partner within complex high-risk environments, preferably across multiple industries.
• Relevant tertiary qualification with substantial relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education, training and experience.
• Proven capability in front-line Health & Safety Advisor service provision including complex risk assessment methodology, incident management and investigation, assurance activities, consultation, and the design and implementation of risk mitigation solutions.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and coaching skills; ability to tailor advice and influence senior leaders.
• Experience in contractor management and high-risk activities and risk profiles such as construction, mining, aviation, utilities, occupational hygiene etc.
• Track record of continuous improvement and service delivery, with demonstrated success achieving safe outcomes on initiatives through a collaborative approach.
• Strong training and coaching skills to enable capability uplift within business areas.
• Data literacy and ability to interpret insights to drive improvements.
• Ability to act as technical expert for the design and delivery of training programs relating to health and safety.
• 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.
• Knowledge and understanding of a systems approach to problem-solving and its implementation.
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, with a high level of attention to detail for deliverables produced

Level 9 (in addition to the above):

• Deep technical expertise across multiple risk disciplines with exposure to multiple high-risk environments.
• Extensive experience influencing organisational safety strategy and governance.
• Expert knowledge of ISO 45001 and 45003 frameworks, and ability to integrate into organisational systems.
• Advanced stakeholder engagement and influencing skills at senior/executive level.
• Proven ability to mentor and uplift capability across multidisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-level initiatives and assurance programs and advanced project management skills.
• Analytical capability to directly influence safety improvements and safer outcomes

To apply: Please submit your CV and Cover Letter outlining your suitability via the APPLY button.  

Contact: Kim Symons - Talent Acquisition Manager e: 

Applications close: 11.55pm, Sunday 15th February 2026.

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.

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.