Vacancy Details

Position: Staff Safety & Wellbeing Consultant

Organisation Unit: Safety & Wellbeing

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Tenure: Full time, fixed term 12 months

Closing: 05-JUL-2026 at 11:59pm AUS Eastern Standard Time

Synopsis:

• Exceptional new opportunity for an experienced WHS practitioner to play a key role building a safe and inclusive workplace
• Work alongside a supportive team implementing strategies to prevent GBV, psychosocial hazards and psychological injury
• ACU offers 17% employer superannuation, salary packaging and generous leave provisions
• Full time, fixed term 12 month opportunity with some hybrid flexibility working at Melbourne campus

Campus Location: Melbourne, Australia

Job No: APTAV132330#007

About the role:

Operating within Safety & Wellbeing, the Staff Safety & Wellbeing Consultant plays a key role in building a psychologically safe, inclusive and respectful working environment at ACU. Reporting to the National Manager - Safety & Wellbeing, the position is responsible for implementing and monitoring frameworks, policies and initiatives that prevent and respond to workplace gender based violence (GBV), psychosocial hazards and psychological injury. The Staff Safety & Wellbeing Consultant will require strong counselling and case management skills to support staff disclosures of gender based violence or sexual harm, harassment, bullying or other forms of psychological harm. The position will ensure that the university meets its obligations under the Work Health and Safety Acts, OHS Act 2004 (Vic), Fair Work Act 2009 (Respect@Work reforms) and the National Code to Prevent & Respond to Gender Based Violence in Higher Education. The role also leads prevention and early intervention initiatives, supports cultural change programs and provides expert guidance to People & Capability stakeholders and university leadership to manage psychosocial risk and promote wellbeing.

For full position details, refer to the position description

Contact:

General enquiries can be sent to Adrian Taylor, National Manager - Safety & Wellbeing at: Adrian.Taylor@acu.edu.au

What we offer:

• The University pursues an excellence agenda and offers an environment where staff are welcomed and safe, and valued through development, participation and involvement.
• Total remuneration valued to $138,111 - $154,409 total rem (pro rata) pa, including salary component $116,706 - $130,478 (pro rata) pa (HEW 8), employer contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading.
• 17% employer superannuation contributions to eligible continuing and fixed-term staff.
• Annual leave loading of an equivalent to 17.5% of four weeks' salary pro rata payable, dependent on your commencement date.
• As an ACU staff member, you will have access to generous benefits which include but not limited to: flexible work, study leave, a variety of leave provisions and salary packaging. Find out more information about the benefits or working at ACU here.

How to Apply:

Step 1: Review the Position Description and become familiar with Our Mission and the Application process

Step 2: Click the 'View Position Description and Apply' button, and populate your candidate application details, including your:

• Resume.
• Recommended responses to the Selection Criteria and Core Competencies in a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) or in the online Declaration and Criteria application page.
• Brief online responses to any pre-screening employment questions.

Applications close: 05-JUL-2026 at 11:59pm AUS Eastern Standard Time

Preferred candidates will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment declarations and background checks, including those related to gender-based violence and foreign interference, in line with ACU's compliance requirements.

This position requires a Working with Children Check (WWCC) and/or Working with Vulnerable People Check (WWVP) (ACT only).

Candidates must hold Australian work rights to apply for this position. For permanent/ continuing roles, applicants must have permanent work rights. For further information visit Immigration and Citizenship(homeaffairs.gov.au)

About ACU:

Australian Catholic University (ACU) is a publicly funded university whose teaching, research and service is shaped by the vision of flourishing lives, thriving communities, and a more ethical future for our world. ACU has more than 2,500 staff and 34,000 students across eight campuses - Ballarat, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, North Sydney, Strathfield, Blacktown and Rome.

ACU draws on the Catholic intellectual tradition which values human reason and welcomes everyone regardless of their faith, cultural tradition or circumstances. ACU invites all staff - both academic and professional - to embrace, and to support in ways meaningful to them, its mission to respect the dignity of every human person, to seek knowledge and to advance the common good.