HR Advisor

**Employment Status**: Permanent
**Days & Hours of Work**:Monday to Friday totalling 38 hours per week
**Competitive Salary**:Band 6 - $98,867.71 p.a. + 11.5% superannuation
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
We are looking for a HR Advisor to join our inspired, engaged and fun People and Strategy team. We have four Strategic People & Culture Business Partners that can’t wait for you to join the team so that you can support them, and the organisation, through the provision of high-quality generalist HR support and advice to our leaders, employees and teams.

We’re looking for someone who is service orientated, understands the importance of building strong working relationships across the organisation, is compassionate and has a collaborative approach. If you like diverse and interesting work and passionately care about making a difference for the organisation and the community, this could be the perfect role for you.

You will be responsible for:

- Working in partnership with the Strategic People & Culture Business Partners, to provide quality and commercially effective advice to employees and people leaders.
- Providing accurate and specialised advice regarding interpretation of the Enterprise Agreement (EA), policies and procedures and relevant legislation.
- Providing People Leaders with best practice advice and support regarding employee relations matters.
- Supporting People Leaders and employees through end-to-end employee life cycle matters including, probation management and Performance Journey processes.

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Tertiary qualifications in HR or other related field and relevant experience in the HR industry, preferably within Local Government.
- Experience in all aspects of the employee life cycle.
- An understanding of employment legislation.
- A strong customer service focus.
- Experience working with HRIS systems (PageUp and/or, AURION are highly desirable).

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check.

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
- A Parkland surrounded office that is only short 500m stroll to the beach.
- Free onsite staff parking plus hybrid vehicles that employees can book for work related travel.
- A Green Money program, that rewards our staff for taking simple everyday steps to a more substantiable and climate aware living.

If you are ready to be part of our incredible organisation, and you think this role is the right fit for you, then we look forward to finding out more about you and what you would bring to this role.

**How to apply**:

- To discover more about the role and responsibilities review the Position Description.
- If you require reasonable adjustment at any point throughout the recruitment process, then please do let us know by contacting the listed Hiring Manager.

**Applications close**: 19 January 2025, 11:55pm
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