Business Partner People & Capability | Maranoa

Accelerate Your Career in HR!

• Be coached and supported by an experienced Manager.
• High‑Impact Regional Leadership Role
• $92K–$110K + Super + 5 Weeks Leave + RDO

Unique opportunity to gain broad HR capability and become a highly confident, well-rounded HR professional...

About Council

Maranoa Regional Council is entering a new era - one defined by transparency, accountability, and bold transformation. As a member of the HR team, you will be a part of this change as you engage with workers across the region, and drive smarter, more efficient ways of working.

If you are already working in HR and ready for a ‘step up,’ this role offers genuine breadth, meaningful impact, and the opportunity to embed strong HR foundations across a dynamic organisation. Council is offering a rare opportunity for an emerging or experienced HR leader to accelerate their career in a role with true scope, mentorship, and influence.

About the Role

As a Business Partner, People & Capability, you will play a vital role in delivering HR services and contributing to strategic and operational goals across Council. The work is varied, meaningful, and high‑impact.

Supported by the Manager P&C you will learn how to assist leaders with employment advice, contribute to enterprise bargaining, shape policies, guide investigations, enhance HR systems, and provide workforce data insights to senior leaders.

You will also be involved in key HR projects - such as updating policies, improving onboarding processes, supporting the workforce plan, and driving continuous improvement initiatives. Every week you will build relationships across multiple locations, becoming a trusted go‑to person for managers and staff.

A Glimpse of Your Workday

You might:

• Support a manager in interpreting industrial instruments or navigating a performance issue.
• Review and develop People & Capability policies to reflect best practice.
• Collate, validate, and analyse workforce metrics to inform decision-making.
• Assist with position descriptions, PD reviews, or classification assessments.
• Lead or support workplace investigations under guidance from the Manager P&C.
• Prepare workforce reports for ELT, the CEO.
• Travel across the region to build relationships and strengthen HR presence.

You will be a great fit if you:

• Hold HR qualifications and/or have gained some HR experience in either a large corporate, Local or State Government and keen to expand your skills and knowledge.
• Understand (or are eager to learn) employment legislation, industrial instruments, and HR frameworks.
• Bring professionalism, confidentiality, and strong people skills.
• Are adaptable, organised, and confident engaging with diverse stakeholders.
• Want to build a long-term HR career with mentorship and real growth opportunities.
• Embody Council’s values of respect, empathy, transparency, accountability, and innovation

The Candidate Briefing Document can be accessed HERE

Why This Role?

Maranoa Regional Council is a progressive, community‑focused organisation with approximately 400 employees delivering essential services and major infrastructure projects across a large region. This newly crafted role supports the Manager People & Capability in shaping a contemporary HR function built on data insights, leader capability, strong relationships, and modern frameworks.

Roma is the vibrant heart of the Maranoa region - a friendly, welcoming community surrounded by natural beauty and thriving industries. The region is well connected, with daily 1‑hour flights to Brisbane, a major new hospital, quality schools including TAFE and Country Universities Centre, and a social calendar full of regional events. Enjoy affordable living, genuine work–life balance, and the unique charm of a regional lifestyle - with great coffee shops, national parks, and community spirit all at your doorstep.

Whether your passion is employee relations, policy, workforce analytics, organisational development or building leader capability - this role gives you exposure to all of it.

Thriving here means:

• Growing rapidly with hands-on coaching and exposure to complex ER/IR, workforce planning, HR systems, and policy work.
• Being part of a team committed to innovation, transparency, respect, safety, and excellence. You will be supported, welcomed, and given every opportunity to succeed.
• Becoming a true business partner, known and trusted across the organisation.
• Enjoying balance and lifestyle, with fortnightly RDOs, great wellbeing support and relocation assistance + landing‑pad accommodation on arrival

To Apply

PEAK Services is working exclusively with Maranoa Regional Council on this position. We offer local government expertise across a wide range of professional fields, providing tailored solutions for councils and other similar organisations. We work with our clients to deliver meaningful outcomes in recruitment and contracting services. 

You will be required to answer a few questions on the online application below.  Please note that you cannot submit your application without attaching your resume.  A cover letter is not mandatory, but may be added if so desired. When uploading your Resume or documents please ensure file names should only include 'A-z', '0-9', '.' and '-' characters.

PLEASE NOTE: Once you have commenced your application you cannot save and continue at a later stage. 

Applications will close on Monday 2^nd March at 10 pm. Please ensure you leave adequate time to complete your application before the closing date and time.

For a confidential conversation, please call Rona Horsfall on 0438 943854 at Peak Services Recruitment. Alternatively, click ‘apply’ and you will be taken through to our website where you can find the Candidate Briefing Document and upload your details.