Strategic Partner

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**The Opportunity**:

- **Play a key role in understanding the commercial needs and priorities of CSIRO**:

- **An exciting role supporting the leaders across Space & Astronomy and Digital National Facilities and Collection**:

- **Help drive the BU people strategy**

The People Team play an important role in creating an environment that enables CSIRO people to do the best science of their lives. Our People Transformation is a new program of work underway that is designed to reimagine the way that the People Team delivers support to people and leaders at CSIRO in order to provide outstanding people experiences that are more integrated, simplified and customer centric.

Strategic Partners are a small team of experienced HR practitioners who engage and partner with senior leaders to understand CSIRO business needs, provide strategic advice and broker people services & initiatives. A Strategic Partner plays a key role in understanding the commercial needs and priorities of CSIRO and translating them into a plan to guide the People Teams effort. The strategic partner is the entry point or ‘front door’ into the People Team for Executives looking for guidance and support in running their business unit and are critical in improving People business value.

The Strategic Partner - Space & Astronomy and Digital National Facilities and Collection is an essential position in the Strategic Partnering reporting to the Team Leader, Strategic Partner - Enterprise Services. As the Strategic Partner - Space & Astronomy and Digital National Facilities and Collection you will be responsible for partnering with senior leaders across Space & Astronomy (S&A) and Digital National Facilities (NCMI) and for providing input into business unit strategy and people mattes relevant to business success.

S&A teams are focused on operating world-class national facilities for radio astronomy, spacecraft communications and tracking, and collecting satellite-derived data about Earth for customers across Australia and the world; and NCMI manage collections of plants and animals of Australian and international significance, host Australia's national research facilities and conducts domain specific research.

**Your duties will include**:

- Engage and Partner with senior leaders to understand CSIRO business needs, provide strategic advice and broker people services and initiatives.
- Be a proactive participant on applicable leadership teams, advising on people matters.
- Provide input into business unit strategy and people matters relevant to business success, such as talent development, succession, workforce and operational planning, organisational design.
- Understand business needs and translate business unit strategy and requirements into the People plan to guide the People Teams effort.
- Support senior leaders to deliver organisational change in their respective business units, monitor the impact of business decisions on people and support the development of the desired employer brand and culture.
- Challenge the business to ensure integrated people strategy, talent strategy approach, and fair people management.
- Combine internal expertise with the knowledge of the latest trends in HR to suggest appropriate solutions to business unit challenges.
- For the full list of Duties, please refer to the Position Description_

**Location**:Hobart & Canberra - preferred

**Salary**:AU$117k - AU$138k plus up to 15.4% superannuation

**Tenure**:Specified term of 2 years

**Reference**:90109

**To be considered you will need**:

- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Human Resource Management, Business Management, or other relevant discipline.
- A track record of developing of effective people solutions to diverse business problems and supporting senior executives within a professional services environment.
- A minimum of 10 years' experience in a role providing generalist and strategic HR advice on a range of complex HR, organisational and employee relations issues across the employment lifecycle that is consistent, accurate and considered.
- Demonstrated ability to lead conversations with senior stakeholders to articulate business needs and develop an appropriate strategic response.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively challenge and leaders, i.e., managerial courage.
- A track record of being able to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- An ability to assess the risk and opportunity of identified strategies, options and actions while overcoming problems and setbacks in achieving goals.
- Strong interpersonal skills exemplified by experience establishing and maintaining strong partnerships and a