People Specialist

**Role**: HR Consultant - grow your Project and BP Skills

**Location**: Sydney Alexandria (Hybrid working) at least one day per week in the office

**Employment Type**: Full time, permanent employment

With 15,000 Goodstart team members across 661 centres nurturing 63,600 children, we’re Australia's largest provider of early learning and care. As a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia's children and their families. From our centre teams to our support teams, we work together to make a real difference for children in those crucial early years.

Goodstart are currently seeking a HR Consultant (internal title is People Specialist Projects) to work with our National People and Culture team on initiatives and projects to support our people plan. In addition, you will work with our Senior Business Partnering team to develop your business partnering skills with the intention of owning a client relationship.

**Your Impact**:
Design and deliver people projects and initiatives aligned to our organisational objectives
Collaborate cross functionally to provide a people focussed lens across a range of projects and activities
Maintaining a continuous improvement focus across all people practices and engaging with relevant stakeholders to create stronger solutions together
Work collaboratively with the broader P & C team to identify, develop and implement key organisational culture and engagement initiatives and strategies.
Facilitate group-based forums in support of initiatives that influence and involve stakeholders in forming solutions
Use effective project management skills to ensure activities are delivered effectively
Use effective change management practices to implement new or improved people frameworks and tools with our leaders, at scale
Stepping in to cover leave for Business Partners state based clients

**What Goodstart can offer you**:
Flexible work arrangements giving you choice about when and how work will be done in order to better manage your work and non-work needs
Access to discounted childcare (up to 15%)
Discounted health care and access to employee wellbeing program with BUPA
Exclusive discounts on travel, Apple and Dell products, and more.
Work for a company that has an aspiration to be globally recognised for early years practice and learning outcomes
Be a part of a team and work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, inclusion and purpose
Development of skills through intentional work placement and mentoring by senior business partners
Security and stability - as Australia’s largest provider of early learning and care and a not-for-profit social enterprise, we exist purely to improve the lives of Australia’s children and their families

**You’ll bring to the table**:
Have a bachelor’s degree in a HR/Business or relevant discipline
Projects experience, being involved in and leading elements of HR projects
You may have a background in case management and are ready for the next step in your career
Demonstrated change management experience in analysing, planning and managing people change
Being organised and being able to manage to timelines
Developing your generalist experience across all elements of the employee lifecycle
Developing business acumen skills, using your understanding to connect people strategy to the achievement of business outcomes
Leveraging your proven partnering skills to drive amazing employee experiences
Have a systems lens, able to see how the separate elements fit together within HR and across the wider organisation and work effectively as a member of virtual functional and cross-functional teams.
Be adaptable and able to work in an environment that has periods of high activity (fast paced) and competing demands.

How to apply

If you would like to discuss the opportunity or require further information about the role please contact Mel Bevan on 0428 871 418 for a confidential discussion.

Supporting our people and protecting our children

We’re an equal opportunity employer that is proud of our inclusive and diverse work environment. We know that Goodstarters from diverse cultures, backgrounds and experiences strengthen our teams and help us grow. We’re also deeply committed to Reconciliation and creating an environment where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People feel a strong sense of belonging and connection.

**Posting Notes**: ALEXANDRIA, SYDNEY || NSW || Australia (AU) || | || No Early Childhood Qualification || Full-Time