People and Culture Advisor (13 month contract)

People and Culture Advisor – Full Time 13 month contract

At Cricket Victoria, we love our sport, but what really matters to us is people. We’re here to create experiences that bring out the best in our staff, players, volunteers, and community. We’re proud of our fun, inclusive, and high-performance culture – and we’re looking for someone who shares that passion.

We have an exciting opportunity for a People and Culture Advisor to join our Employee Experience team on a 13-month parental leave cover, commencing in December 2025.

The Role:

• Responsible for partnering with key business units, you will play a key role in supporting and delivering an exceptional employee experience across Cricket Victoria.
• Lead end-to-end recruitment and selection, ensuring alignment with CV’s Ideals and strategic workforce needs
• Enhance employee experience across the lifecycle—from onboarding to offboarding—using data to inform insights and recommend improvements.
• Support talent management, succession planning, and learning & development initiatives.
• Contribute to organisational change, including restructures and policy implementation.
• Support employee engagement survey action planning.
• Lead health & wellbeing, social, and staff benefit programs.
• Act as WHS Committee Secretary and coordinate WHS activities including return-to-work and Workers’ Compensation.

About You:

• Experience in HR/People & Culture, with a track record of excellent delivery and outcomes
• Ability to work with pace and precision – you get things done
• Strong relationship builder who people trust and respect
• Ability to synthesise business insights and recommend appropriate action.
• A collaborative, inclusive approach and a sense of fun
• Passion for sport or community is a bonus (no need to be able to bowl a yorker, though!)
• Working With Children Check (Employee)

Why Join Cricket Victoria?

Cricket Victoria is one of Australia’s leading sporting organisations and the proud home of Victorian cricket, including the Melbourne Stars and Melbourne Renegades. Based at the state-of-the-art CitiPower Centre, we provide a high-performance environment where innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing are at the heart of what we do.

You’ll play a key role in supporting and delivering an exceptional employee experience across Cricket Victoria providing you with the chance to make a real impact to our team and your career!

The Benefits:

• Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance
• Tickets to a range of sporting events (yes — this includes cricket!)
• Free onsite gym access
• Corporate health insurance offers
• Exclusive corporate partner discounts
• Additional week of leave each year
• A casual, friendly and inclusive culture – our top priority!

Applications close 5pm Thursday 29 September 2025.

At Cricket Victoria, we embrace diversity in gender, age, ethnicity, disability, religion and sexual orientation. We are committed to providing a safe environment for children across Australian Cricket and we also offer a flexible work environment for all employees.

We measure ourselves on our ideals – “Leading the Game”; our shared ideals have the power to create positive change and deliver excellence for our customers, colleagues, and communities. Our people value integrity, connection, accountability, respect and excellence.

We require all applicants to undergo background checks and screening prior to or during any appointment. Australian Cricket’s Commitment Statement to Safeguarding Children and Young People can be found at www.cricketaustralia.com.au/safeguarding