Lead, Community & Social Performance

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is to secure Australia’s energy future. We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it with our customers and communities as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Lead, Community & Social Performance to join our Sustainability team in Brisbane CBD office on a full-time basis until June 2027.

Reporting to the Head of Community & Social Performance, you will play a key role in strengthening enterprise-wide CSP governance, systems, and data integrity, ensuring consistent, high-quality social performance outcomes across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive uplift of CSP data integrity, including data capture processes, validation, and reporting consistency across the business.

• Support the implementation, optimisation, and ongoing operation of CSP systems and associated processes.

• Partner with internal stakeholders to embed CSP data requirements into corporate systems and workflows.

• Identify and analyse enterprise-wide CSP data trends to support insight-driven decision making.

• Lead the development and ongoing improvement of CSP governance frameworks, standards, procedures, and supporting tools.

• Support governance forums including the CSP Advisory Group and contribute to reporting for senior leadership (SMC/ELT).

Your Background

• Demonstrated experience in Community & Social Performance or social impact within a corporate or complex organisation.

• Strong capability in data management, systems, or governance frameworks, with a focus on data quality and process improvement.

• Experience developing and implementing standards, procedures, or governance documentation.

• Proven ability to translate business requirements into practical system and process solutions.

• Highly developed stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence across diverse teams.

• A systems-thinking mindset with strong analytical skills and ability to identify trends and insights from data.

Working at APA

At APA, we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best.

We offer targeted career development programs designed to accelerate your career, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing initiatives are all part of what we’ll offer you. Our inclusive parental leave policy offers 18 weeks of leave, including superannuation, to support parents at work and in life.

We employ around 2,000 people across Australia and are committed to building a high-performing, customer-focused organisation where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to perform at their best.

We are APA

At APA, we’re taking on one of Australia’s greatest challenges:​ the energy transition.​ We’re not doing it alone. We’re doing it as Australia’s energy infrastructure partner, a role our unique experience and expertise positions us to play.​

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We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $20 billion portfolio of assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia. And we own more than 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to households and businesses across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer focused approach means we understand our customers and offer them reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to securing Australia’s energy future by delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers and communities.

Join our team and be part of securing Australia’s energy future. We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting (including Police checks) before & during employment.

APA Group will not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.