About the Role
The Senior HR Advisor supports HR Business Partners and leaders across Australasia, providing generalist HR advisory support to achieve business outcomes, enhance performance, build capability, and foster a positive workplace culture. This role manages a client portfolio and offers advice on employment matters within the Australasian context.
Responsibilities
- Build strong relationships with leaders and employees, acting as a trusted HR advisor and first point of contact for HR matters.
- Provide expert advice and coaching on employee relations, performance management, workplace issues, employment legislation, awards, agreements, policies, and WHS matters.
- Support leaders in workforce management, recruitment, talent development, investigations, disciplinary processes, leave, remuneration, and employment arrangements.
- Deliver HR administration and coordination, including onboarding, offboarding, HR documentation, recruitment support, and payroll/change processes.
- Maintain HR systems and reporting, analyze workforce data, prepare insights, and contribute to HR initiatives, projects, and continuous improvement activities.
Requirements
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in HR (or related discipline) and experience in a generalist HR role supporting diverse stakeholder groups.
- Sound knowledge and practical experience interpreting employment legislation, Fair Work requirements, modern awards, enterprise agreements, and employment relations processes.
- Strong stakeholder management, customer service, and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships and support geographically dispersed clients.
- Experience in HR administration, recruitment, onboarding and offboarding, with a high level of accuracy, organisation, and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and reporting capability, including experience with HR data, workforce reporting, and preparing business insights.
- Resourceful, proactive, and resilient, with strong judgement, emotional intelligence, problem-solving skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure.
- Familiarity with the employment relations landscape, including an understanding of Modern Awards, Enterprise Agreement, and relevant Fair Work legislation.
- Experience managing or supporting industrial relations issues within a unionised or industrial environment.
- Full working rights within Australia.
- Successful candidates will undergo a Police Check.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Customer service
- Communication
- HR administration
- Recruitment
- Onboarding
- Offboarding
- Attention to detail
- Analytical skills
- Reporting capability
- HR data analysis
- Workforce reporting
- Problem-solving
Location
- Australasia
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in HR (or related discipline)
Benefits
- Careers across our global operations
- Recognition and rewards
- Employee benefits
- Support to help you be your best
- Flexibility
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for your development
About the Company
- Navitas is a leading global education provider that has helped generations of learners transform their lives through education.
- Working in our HR Australasia team means you’ll become part of a dedicated community that extends beyond the classroom, encompassing a wide range of professions.
- Our global footprint offers you the chance to connect with people from around the world.
- Navitas is where work has meaning. Our impact is far-reaching – we create lasting legacies for students and communities.
Equal Opportunity
- At Navitas we promote and embrace an inclusive and diverse workforce.
- We believe equality, flexibility, and diversity deliver a rich collaborative environment.
- We strive to ensure that all our staff – no matter where they are from or who they are – feel safe, supported, and given opportunities to thrive.
- We encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, of all ages and genders, First Nations and Indigenous peoples, and people of diverse community groups.
