Reset the system. Elevate the function. Build workforce capability that lasts.

Melbourne | Full-time | Hybrid (4 days in the office) | Reporting Directly to the CPO

Jewish Care is a large, values led human services organisation supporting thousands of people across aged care, disability and community services. As we mature operationally, the way we attract, plan and sustain our workforce must evolve with us.

We are seeking a senior Talent Acquisition leader to take ownership of recruitment at organisational scale not to fill roles faster, but to rebuild how talent acquisition works.

If you are known for bringing structure to complexity, discipline to inconsistent systems and credibility to senior conversations, this role will stretch you and give your work real meaning.

This is a rare opportunity to:

• Lead the end to end reset of a high volume talent acquisition function
• Redesign recruitment frameworks aligned to workforce planning and sustainability
• Shift recruitment from transactional delivery to strategic workforce enablement
• Partner with executives on demand planning, governance and hiring discipline
• Rebuild and modernise the student placement program as a future workforce pipeline
• Reduce risk, cost and dependency through smarter systems and controls

You won’t be “doing recruitment.” You will be setting the standard for how recruitment operates across the organisation.

As Talent Acquisition Manager, you will lead a small recruitment team, personally manage a defined recruitment portfolio and own the systems, governance and performance of the entire recruitment lifecycle.

You will:

• Diagnose what’s not working — workflows, costs, agency reliance, decision quality
• Personally manage a recruitment portfolio, modelling best practice while balancing strategic leadership responsibilities
• Design and implement structured, documented and repeatable recruitment practices
• Embed reporting, metrics and accountability to drive consistency and transparency
• Influence senior leaders to lift hiring discipline and workforce planning maturity
• Build capability across the business through interview training and education

This role is for you if you:

• Are a senior Talent Acquisition leader ready to showcase your capability, with proven experience leading recruitment or TA transformation in complex or regulated environments
• Are confident working in high volume, Enterprise Agreement based workforces
• Bring commercial judgement to agency management and cost to hire decisions
• Can influence senior stakeholders without formal authority
• Enjoy building structure, governance and clarity where none currently exists
• Want your leadership to contribute to real community impact

Experience in aged care, disability, health or not for profit is advantageous but not essential.

About us

Jewish Care Victoria, is a not-for-profit organisation and is one of the largest providers of aged and community services for the Jewish Community in Victoria and has been servicing the community for over 175 years. Our staff come from all cultural and religious backgrounds, and we provide cultural and spiritual training in the Jewish Ethos. 

Why Jewish Care?

Because here:

• The workforce challenges are real, not theoretical
• Your work directly supports vulnerable people and communities
• Leadership is trusted and expected, not constrained
• Values are lived, not laminated
• Your expertise will shape how the organisation hires for years to come
• We offer Salary Packaging – as a not-for-profit organisation, our staff benefit from some Fringe Benefit Tax exemptions through salary packaging
• Purchased leave options– up to 4 weeks additional time off to enhance your work-life balance
• Employee Assistance Program

If the idea of working with an organisation that values your expertise and has a commitment to the wellbeing of our staff and clients, click APPLY now. A career you love and an organisation that will nurture your career is simply a click away.

Jewish Care proudly celebrates and warmly welcomes the rich diversity of our community and strives to be inclusive for all, including the LGBTI+ community.

Jewish Care acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we live and work. Our services and supports are provided on the lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people, and we deeply respect and honour their ongoing cultural and spiritual connection to land, waters and community.

Jewish Care is committed to protecting clients and staff members from all forms of harm and abuse. We are a child safe organisation. We require all applicants to undergo an extensive screening process during their recruitment process.