People & Culture Business Partner

Careers at the St Kilda Football Club represent a unique opportunity to work in a dynamic culture, where we recognise every individual impacts team success. It’s a place where we lift, support, and challenge each other to be greater. And in that pursuit of greatness, we embrace the grit our journey requires.

The timing and potential of this opportunity is unprecedented. Last year was the year of exploration in our AFL program, and the year our AFLW team inspired with their most successful season yet. In 2024 we start in earnest the build towards our second and subsequent premierships.

Within our cultural DNA is the ability to harness the power of collaboration, diversity and effort to impact what matters to our football Club. While on-field performance is the club’s absolute priority, we recognise the important role we play in the community and embrace our responsibility to promote mental fitness through the Danny Frawley Centre, social inclusion via the Healthy Futures Hub and continue our long-standing commitments to First Nations people and gender equality.  

We understand who we represent, and the privileged position we hold as custodians of a football club built on more than 150 years of history. 

We are seeking a high energy, values driven and commercially minded People & Culture Business Partnerto join our small but mighty People and Culture Team.

The P&C Business Partner is dedicated to supporting the St Kilda Commercial department responsible for the Club's sponsor partnership agreements, B2B network and events, the experience of our 60,000 members, omni-channel retail function, junior and elite football pathways, multi-cultural and indigenous pathways, community football programs and the Club's suite of secondary and tertiary education offerings. We're looking for a commercially savvy Business Partner able to build trust, a high degree of credibility and relationships so strong they identify as an extension of the Commercial department, while still belonging to the People and Culture team.  The P&C BP also leads the delivery of selected strategic projects that create transformational impact at the whole of Club level.

About you

Your experience partnering with key leaders has resulted in demonstrated positive impacts on team performance. Those you partner with speak highly about your ability to:

• Partner with hiring managers in the end-to-end talent attraction and selection process, building the hiring manager's recruitment capability at each step
• Identify and develop high potential team members
• Ensure Award and contract compliance
• Identify and address team and individual capability gaps
• Coach the leader to enable them to hold performance improving conversations with direct reports
• Debrief employee engagement survey results to identify business unit specific opportunities and develop targeted solutions
• Support the planning and implementation of change across the team (people/process/policy/technology)
• Identify and support under performance in team members
• Continuously read the temperature in the team and develop appropriate responses

What you need 

Knowledge of human resources practices, behaviours and mindsets in areas including:

• Talent attraction and selection
• Employment law
• Learning and development
• Performance management
• Employee engagement
• Remuneration and benefits
• Thinking agility with the ability to quickly embrace change
• Outstanding communication and influencing skills
• Coaching, mentoring and developing others
• Strong organisation and project management skills
• Valid Working with Children Check or willingness to obtain one
• HR Technology (experience in ELMO and Culture Amp will be advantageous, so please mention this in your application to get our attention!)

What we offer

• A position on our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) committee, with no previous experience required just a genuine commitment to continuing to build inclusion and celebration of our First Nations people and culture at the Club
• Fantastic culture of grounded people, passionate about what they do
• Hybrid working, with 3 Connect Days at RSEA Park per week and the balance worked as needed by role
• On site LINTON STREET café
• Free access to Aquatics Facilities at our Danny Frawley Centre for Health & Wellbeing
• Free parking onsite
• Free state of the art gym access 
• Bring your Pet to Work Fridays!
• Paid Wellbeing days – time off to relax & recharge 
• 12 weeks paid Parental Leave for primary carers (2 weeks for secondary carers) 
• Discounted Saints memberships and merchandise
• Up to 40% discount on selected NEW BALANCE products
• Saints-only Linen House product pricing
• Discounted movie tickets through Hoyts
• Crown Hotels 15% discount & 20% discount on food & beverage at participating Crown restaurants

If you connect with our values, who the Saints are and where we are headed, this is a brilliant opportunity for a talented People and Culture Business Partner to join us. 

Please keep reading...

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. 

To apply

Applications should include a current CV with a cover letter that addresses why you are interested in working with St Kilda Football Club, why you would be an attribute to our culture and how your skills/experience would be attributes to the position.

Applications will close at 5pm on Thursday, 28 March 2024. Short-listing of candidates will commence prior to the closure of this role, so please do not delay submitting your application.

The St Kilda Football Club is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from individuals of diverse backgrounds to apply. This includes, but is not limited to, those from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and LGBTIQ communities.

We are committed to protecting the safety and wellbeing of children and young people and fostering a “child safe” culture. It is essential that anyone involved with the St Kilda Football Club understands their responsibility in relation to child safety and supports such an environment.