Business Partner, People & Culture

About Us

Minderoo Foundation is a modern philanthropic organisation. We take on tough, persistent issues with the potential to drive massive change. We incubate ideas and accelerate impact. We push the limits of what is believed possible.

Minderoo Foundation is independent, forward thinking and seeks effective, scalable solutions. We are proudly Australian, and one of Asia’s largest philanthropies. 

People & Culture(P&C's) purpose is to enable, engage and develop our people to achieve long term impact through strategic initiatives, strong partnership, and efficient, effective compliant service delivery.  This will be achieved across 5 key areas:

• Minderoo P&C 
• Capability, Culture & Inclusion 
• Talent Acquisition 
• Employee Relations, Health, Safety & People Systems
• Chaplain

About the Opportunity

We are currently seeking a P&C Business Partner to join the P&C team on a 2-year fixed term contract.

Reporting to the Director of P&C. The successful candidate will be entrusted with providing top-tier strategic Business Partnering services to employees and managers on people-related matters, including conflict resolution, performance issues, investigations, disciplinary actions as well as safety and wellbeing matters. Including, but not limited to:

• Coaching, upskill and partner with Executives and Senior Management to build and implement human resources solutions in line with the company strategy.
• Utilise data and analytics to drive decision-making and measure the effectiveness of HR programs and initiatives. Identify trends and areas for improvement, and make recommendations to optimise people-related processes.
• Primary contact for team members across agreed Minderoo Foundation areas for first line P&C Business Partner needs across the employee lifecycle.
• Closely collaborate with the P&C Centres of Excellence to deliver comprehensive human capital support and advice.
• Applying critical thinking to develop practical and impactful initiatives that improve accountability and organisational efficiency, and contribute to a positive employee experience.
• Contributing to the ongoing evolution and maturity of the P&C function.

About You

To be successful you will have a people centred and collaborative working style, and be skilled in influencing and negotiating up to Executive leadership level, and be able to demonstrate:

• Extensive HR Business Partnering experience with senior leadership teams, ideally within a matrix structure.
• Experience in providing expert advice and guidance on a range of HR issues with the ability to work in a complex, dynamic and changing environment.
• Extensive experience across awards, policies, and practices.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to negotiate, influence, and communicate with key stakeholders.
• Demonstrable ability to work at both strategic and operational levels to provide commercially focused HR advice.
• Strong knowledge of HR best practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Passionate about driving organisational success through people strategies.
• Strategic thinker with strong planning, change management and project leadership abilities.
• International experience, ideally US, UK, and Europe, would be highly regarded. 

Next Steps

Please attach your resume and a cover letter explaining why you’re interested in this opportunity.

Applications close: Tuesday 12th March 2024

Please note we reserve the right to close applications early should a suitable candidate be identified.

Minderoo Foundation uses a hybrid work model. Minderoo Foundation embraces Equal Opportunity and promotes diversity. We actively encourage Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders, people of all backgrounds, ages, sexual orientation, and those with Disability to apply.