People & Culture Manager

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research brings together world leading researchers and clinicians, collaborating locally and globally, to improve human health. Our mission is to harness all the information encoded in our genome to better diagnose, treat, predict and prevent disease. From the individual patient with rare disease, to the many thousands affected by complex, widespread illness, we are pioneering discoveries across diseases that have the deepest impact on our community.

The People & Culture team strives to enable Garvan to do great science through a continuous improvement agenda, enabling leaders to recruit and invest in our world-class people and foster a diverse and inclusive culture that supports Garvan’s values.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Due to internal movement in the team we have an exciting People & Culture Manager position we are looking to fill immediately. We are open to full time or part time (4 days a week). We are a tight knit team looking to leverage your expertise to help design, implement, monitor and review our People initiatives.

The People & Culture Manager partners with the Acting Chief People Officer to manage the planning, development and delivery of people initiatives, which may include Leadership Development & Coaching, Labour Planning, Performance Management, Employee Engagement, Reward & Recognition, Inclusion & Balance and others. The People & Culture Manager will directly manage a team of People & Culture Science Partners (HRBPs) and oversee their day-to-day P&C activity.

Salary: Up to $150,000 + 11.5% super + salary packaging (depending on experience)

Employment Type: 9-month fixed-term contract.

SNAPSHOT OF BENEFITS
- Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)
- Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
- Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
- Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times
- A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
- Discounted Health Insurance
- Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

WHAT YOU WILL DO

ESSENTIAL DUTIES and RESPONSIBILITES

Provide effective and visible leadership of BAU People & Culture operational matters and manage P&C staff members (inc. People & Culture Science Partners)
- Ensure BAU People & Culture Service Delivery - examples include; Case Management (performance & conduct matters); Reporting - including Board and GLT reporting; WGEA etc, Data/ Reports supporting all initiatives; Cyclical Audit Processes (including COI, Annual Award Reconciliation and Payroll);
- Drive continuous improvement of policies and processes to make it as easy as possible to do great science, within the governance landscape - examples include enhancing onboarding and offboarding processes (with other key enabling functions such as IT), evolving Garvan’s competitive Remuneration, Reward & Recognition Framework so that it drives enablement / achievement of great science; Ensuring there are clearly defined career paths / structures for all common role specialities at Garvan (Eg: Computational Scientist, Software Engineer); ensuring P&C Ask page is continually added to and maintained to ensure ease of self-service on common topics; Workday User Experience; Policy & Process continuous improvement; Position Description simplification and centralisation

Partner with People Leaders in nominated P&C Science Partner ‘Customer’ Portfolio
- Work with the assigned customer cohorts (eg Programs/Teams) to co-create and deliver a tailored, strategically-aligned People Plan, as well as contribute to the development of the Programs/Team’s strategic and operational plans.
- Build relationships with leaders as a trusted advisor that solves people challenges and establish and maintain influential relationships with clients to help guide positive employee interactions and outcomes.

Assess, plan and manage day to day operations impacting the Institute
- Consultation and decision making regarding day-to-day operational management issues such as Workplace, Health, Safety and Wellbeing matters,
- Providing feedback on operational decisions with strategic impact for referral to GLT
for decision

ABOUT YOU

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

The key skills and experience include:

- Significant experience as a HR leader or HR generalist and/or related role. Minimum 5 years experience.
- Strong experience in data reporting/analysis and interpretation.
- Experience in leading or providing advice with complex investigation processes
- Ability to research, analyse and interpret information when providing advice to team members and the greater organisation.
- Experience coaching and mentoring other team members, people leadership experience desirable.
- Experience rolling out or leading HR projects assoc