People and Culture Business Partner

Are you passionate about developing people and culture? Do you have experience influencing and partnering with business units to provide people and culture support? We are currently seeking an experienced Business Partner and if this type of role interests you take a chance to rewrite the future with us.

• Use your HR business partnering and high level interpersonal skills to support business units 
• Manage complex industrial relations and employee matters
• Work in a dynamic and customer focused team
• Permanent full-time and Temporary full-time positions (up to 12 months)

About the role

As a People and Culture Business Partner, you will provide employment and legislative advice and manage complex industrial relation actions through to resolution. You will develop, build and maintain collaborative working relationships that will establish successful and professional business partnerships.

The Business Partner will work closely with a Senior Business Partner to develop and implement people and culture initiatives and contribute to the development, implementation and delivery of projects. 

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Degree qualifications in Human Resources Management, Business Management or relevant field OR significant solid contemporary industrial relations and generalist human resource management experience
• Current Class C Drivers Licence
• Extensive experience in a similar role working with diverse client groups in medium to large complex organisations
• Significant experience in managing outcomes for complex grievance, dispute and performance management related matters
• Extensive experience in the interpretation and application of Award, industrial and employment legislation
• Demonstrated experience in researching and analysing information of a complex and sensitive nature to deliver proactive solution based outcomes
• Demonstrated proficiency in providing technical expertise, coaching and advice to relevant staff to allow them to effectively undertake their responsibilities and duties
• Demonstrated ability to build strong, credible relationships and influence, persuade or negotiate outcomes that add value to the organisation
• Proven ability to assess and interpret information to formulate recommendations and provide specialist advice to enable the organisation to achieve quality outcomes.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $99k to $119k plus 11.5% superannuation
• This is a permanent full-time and a temporary full-time role.
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role - 2 days work from home and 3 days on site.
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building. 

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

What to know more?

The contact person for this role is Donna Bringolf, Section Manager Strategic Business Partnering. You can contact Donna on 0438 212 476.

This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday, 24 November 2024.

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Location

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false. 

You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate.  This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.

You also acknowledge that you will be required to provide proof of eligibility (including photo identification) to work in Australia if selected for an interview.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.