People & Culture Specialist

People & Culture Specialist
Sydney CBD
Permanent Role - Full Time
Salary: $130,000 + Super
Hybrid
Cox Purtell is currently working with a prestigious independent Christian school based in Sydney CBD with a history spanning over 100 years, offering a nurturing community with extensive sporting and co-curricular opportunities. And a collaborative workplace with a real community feel, where staff are highly valued and respected.
Our client is looking to hire a motivated and experienced People & Culture Specialist to provide sound advice and guidance around 2 major functions - Employee/Workplace Relations and Compliance. This role provides greenfield opportunities for process improvement, and a great level of autonomy - reporting to the Director of P&C and Finance, you'll have a great mentor and a real partner who you can lean on as much or as little as you like providing the opportunity to truly make the role your own.
The successful candidate must have experience leading all operational and compliance processes of the employee life cycle and navigating workplace relations issues - providing sound Employment Law advice.
To be successful in this role you should also be aligned with the values and principles of the Christian faith.
Your Area of Responsibilities:

• Supporting managers in effective management of their people.
• Provide training, advice and support in grievance, dispute and conflict resolution matters.
• Provide advice on employment and industrial relations matters.
• Ensure policy training is provided for all new employees and ongoing training is given to all existing employees.
• Provide advice and oversee the administration and operations of the recruitment, onboarding and induction process for all employees.
• Coordinate the administration of the Support and Operational Staff Performance Appraisal and Development Process.
• Be a supportive line manager to 2 HR Administrators.

Your Profile:
The ideal candidate would have significant experience in P&C roles and have excellent HR knowledge - particularly in the ER/Employment Law space. Education experience not mandatory.

• 3-5 years' experience in a similar role, covering the coordination and administration of the full employee lifecycle in a small to medium size business.
• Tertiary qualifications within Human Resources or an equivalent field.
• Experience in leading a small team or similar role.
• Experience in coordination level judgement.
• A desire and ability to continuously learn and improve, specifically around process improvement, moving data to a single source of truth.