Address- Location: Raymond Terrace – Live and breathe flexible working - offering a hybrid work from home/office model designed to support a true work life balance
- Permanent full-time position. Work within a flexitime band that enables you design your own work patterns for a 35 hour week!
- Exciting position where you will find our next super stars from a diverse range of careers!
The Port Stephens Region
Port Stephens is an integral part of the Hunter region and boasts some of the country’s most pristine coastline. Located 2.5 hours from Sydney and within an hour of Newcastle and Hunter Valley vineyards, Port Stephens offers a wonderfully balanced lifestyle. There's so much on offer including beautiful beaches, stunning sand dunes, coastal walks, national parks and pristine waters. The region is economically strong with a carefree, laid-back lifestyle.
Covering an area of close to 900 square kilometers and populated by over 75,000 people, the Worimi people are the traditional owners of Port Stephens.
About Port Stephens Council (PSC)
PSC is known for its dedication in delivering services valued by our community. Led by our popularly elected Mayor and nine dedicated Councillors, PSC is recognised for listening to its community and actively being available for community consultation and forums.
PSC has a diverse asset base including holiday parks, community facilities, property investments, economic development activities and tourism.
Why our employees love PSC?
When you join PSC, you’ll be joining an organisation who truly believes that one size doesn’t fit all. We embrace the level of difference that each of our employees bring with them and offer working arrangements that allow you to focus on the things you consider most important to you outside of your career throughout all stages of your life!
We live our values, are encouraged to express our ideas, place value on our personal and professional development, and come together to share ideas that will in turn enhance the wellbeing of our community.
The Perfect Opportunity
At PSC we pride ourselves on recruiting the right people to join our team helping us maintain our highly engaged culture and continue to thrive! This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Talent Acquisition professional to join our Council to play a key role in finding top talent.
With over 60 individual business units across the organisation, you’ll provide expert advice and guidance to our hiring managers and key stakeholders from teams within Children’s Services, Governance, Emergency Management, Communications and Customer Experience and many, many more!
You’ll own the end to end recruitment lifecycle, including assisting in the management of our probation and on-boarding processes; continuous improvement within our systems, actively seek new and forward-thinking ways of attracting our talent in an ever changing market, and be encouraged to get involved in bringing your own unique flare to our processes and projects along the way!
You can view your new career here.
Your Team
Our Human Resources team are all about helping our people be the best they can be within our organisation. Whether that’s guiding our employees through exciting new times, being there for the difficult times, or finding new and innovative ways of delivering key experiences throughout an employee’s PSC experience - we’re there for it all!
Lead by our Human Resources Manager, you’ll be working alongside our Senior Talent Acquisition Advisor, our two Human Resources Business Partners, and our Human Resources Advisor. We’re a small but dynamic team who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo, supporting each other through whatever might be thrown our way.
Enough about us, we want to hear about you! So tell us about…
- So tell us why you want this role and how it aligns to your career goals.
- Outline a time when you had to juggle several projects at the same time. How did you organise your time? What was the result?
Please note: Only the criteria above needs to be addressed in the application, however you’ll be assessed against the full list of Essential Criteria located within the attached Position Description
We want you to love PSC as much as we do, so here’s a taste of some of the perks you can expect:
- TRP Range: $78,034 - $91,378 based on a 35 hours per week (includes 10.5% superannuation + retention allowance)
- Confidential support (including mental health) through our employee assistance program
- Long service leave when you’ve been with us for just over 5 years
- Paid Parental Leave so you can spend more time with your new little human
- Generous leave entitlements including Volunteer Leave and Domestic Violence Support
- Flexible work options, including a hybrid model of working from home and the office
- A wellbeing program, including meditation, gym discounts and fitness incentives
- Ongoing personal and professional development programs
- Mentoring in the workplace
- Free parking on site
- Coffee and food to keep you sustained at our on-site café
- And lots more…
Ready to change your outlook and join the awesome team at PSC?
- These opportunities don’t come up often… apply by midnight, 9 October 2022.
- For further information on the role, please contact Melissa Rodway, Acting Corporate Services Section Manager for a confidential discussion.
- We never discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.
- We’re a 2021 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.
- We’ve partnered with the Veterans Employment Program to support veterans finding suitable, sustainable and meaningful employment.
- Port Stephens Council adheres to the principles of a child safe organisation and supports children and young people having safe and welcoming experience in our community, accessing our facilities and in our care.
