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About the Role
Join SafeWork NSW as a Senior People & Culture Business Partner to partner with business leaders, shape a high-performing workforce, and provide strategic guidance on workforce, culture, and people management. This role supports senior leaders in building capability and leading change in a dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
- Provide tailored, strategic people and culture advice to senior leaders and people leaders.
- Coach and uplift leadership capability to manage complex employee relations matters and difficult conversations.
- Lead complex and sensitive people matters, including workplace investigations, grievances, and performance management.
- Advise on award interpretation and employment legislation to mitigate employee relations risks.
- Support the implementation of People & Culture initiatives aligned with organizational strategic priorities.
- Build trusted stakeholder relationships and influence outcomes through engagement and business understanding.
- Collaborate with the People & Culture team to co-design and deliver workforce solutions.
- Lead, coach, and develop direct reports to foster high performance.
- Promote and embed inclusive and innovative workforce practices.
Requirements
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, negotiate, and resolve issues.
- Confidence in coaching and supporting senior leaders through sensitive and complex people matters.
- Demonstrated ability to lead highly complex and sensitive people matters, including workplace investigations, formal grievance processes, and performance management.
- Expertise in award interpretation and employment act, applying legislative knowledge to advise on employee relations risks and deliver compliant, fair, and balanced outcomes.
- Experience supporting organizational change, including planning and implementing workforce transitions and restructures.
- A track record of successfully leading people-related projects from design to evaluation.
- A customer-focused approach and the ability to adapt within a dynamic environment.
- Experience managing a small team.
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or demonstrated equivalent professional experience in human resources, organisational development and/or relevant industry experience.
- Satisfactory participation in mandatory pre-employment and ongoing probity screening.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Coaching
- Employee relations
- Workplace investigations
- Grievance handling
- Performance management
- Award interpretation
- Employment legislation
- Organizational change management
- Project management
- Customer focus
- Adaptability
- Team management
Location
- Parramatta
- Sydney
Work Type
- Ongoing
- Full-time
- Hybrid
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Senior
- Experience managing a small team
Education Level
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline
- Equivalent professional experience in human resources, organisational development and/or relevant industry experience
Salary/Compensations
- $133,348 to $146,945 plus super
About the Company
- SafeWork NSW is the state's workplace health and safety regulator.
- Our mission is to reduce work-related fatalities, injuries and illnesses by ensuring workplaces comply with health and safety laws.
- We achieve this through a mix of responsive and proactive programs targeting high-risk areas across all industries, aligned with our strategic plan and regulatory priorities.
Equal Opportunity
- The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.
- We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you have any support or access needs that may require adjustments to allow you to fully participate in this selection process (including an alternate format of the application form) please contact Sharlene Fouzder at sharlene.fouzder@safework.nsw.gov.au