Senior Hr Advisor, Corrective Services Business Partnering

Senior HR Advisor

Corrective Services Business Partnering

Location: Parramatta CBD, Windsor Correctional Complex OR Long Bay Correctional Complex (Malabar) with flexible working arrangements

Employment type: Temporary, Full-time (14 months)

Salary: Clerk 9/10, $120,859 to $133,183 p.a. plus employers’ contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

The Senior HR Advisor role is a member of the Corrective Services HR Business Partner Team and is responsible for providing sound HR advice and support to Security & Custody business units in the Sydney Metro-West region.

The role has significant flexibility and can be based at Parramatta CBD, Windsor Correctional Complex, or Long Bay Correctional Complex (Malabar), with hybrid working possible. Regular travel will be required within the Sydney Metro region to provide onsite support and advice to clients.

What you’ll do

Your role is to partner with managers at all levels to deliver best practice HR advice and consultancy services to support CSNSW achieve its objectives, including:

• Operational Workforce Planning.
• Recruitment and Selection.
• Attendance Management.
• Resolution of Workplace Issues (grievances).
• Alignment of the Culture to the DCJ Values.
• Implementation of the Annual Performance Management Program.
• Management of underperformance and unsatisfactory performance.
• Change management advice and support.
• Establishment management quality assurance.

What we’re looking for

In addition to meeting the essential requirements, the successful candidate must demonstrate the capability to:

• Develop effective business partner relationships with all levels of management to influence, coach and become a trusted advisor.
• Lead, develop, coach, and provide ongoing support to direct report/s and clients.
• Communicate effectively and present on a range of HR topics to promote and support workforce strategies.
• Think strategically and research and analyse information to make recommendations.
• Collaborate and obtain customer feedback to inform policies, procedures, systems, and services.
• Use a range of IT applications and systems to maximise efficiency and effectiveness and maintain appropriate records.
• Plan and co-ordinate multiple activities simultaneously.
• Maintain a high level of motivation, resilience, and perseverance.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

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We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

1. Describe a time you engaged and collaborated with a business to implement a new workforce program or strategy. What was the program/strategy? What was your role and what did you do? What were the expected benefits and were they realised?

1. Describe a time you undertook fact finding in response to a workplace issue or grievance. What was the situation? How did you go about gathering the information needed? What was the outcome?

Applications close Wednesday 27 March 2024 at 11:59pm AEDT.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Cloey Peters on 0477 962 184 or email cloey.peters@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best, please call Reyzhel Velasco on 0400 969 505 or via reyzhel.velasco@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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