Employee Relations Partner

**Employee Relations Partner (Temporary Opportunity up to 20 Months)**:

- Organisation/Entity: Transport For NSW
- Job category: Human Resources & Recruitment
- Job location: Sydney, NSW, AU, 2020
- Job reference number: 98047
- Employment type: Fixed Term Full-Time
- Salary range: $147865.0-$165608.0

**You crave a career that pushes you, where you'll meet challenges head on and you're guaranteed to grow.**

**You know that to make a meaningful contribution there needs to be connection and collaboration across the teams. Here’s your opportunity to help our people make a big impact.**

**In this role, you'll**:
Be joining our Coordinator General division within the Bus Transformation Branch to provide strategic advice on the implementation of employee relations related recommendations by the NSW Bus Industry Taskforce. Your role will be responsible for advising on employee relations policy issues relating to bus operations across the state of NSW.

Navigating a complex industrial landscape to achieve strategic and operational workforce relations outcomes for bus operators, working closely with stakeholders across Transport for NSW leadership, unions, legal, state and federal groups.

Our ambitious and supportive wider team includes experts from legal, HR, change management, industrial and employee relations backgrounds.
- Lead the employee relations activities through partnering with stakeholders in the effective engagement and management of bus operators and interaction with unions.
- Provide professional advice, support and coaching for leaders to foster collaborative workplace relations and innovative solutions to develop a more sustainable workforce.
- Liaise with government, bus industry peak bodies, bus operators and unions on matters relating to the development and implementation of new and amended policies, strategies or programs.
- Shape and implement Employee Relations frameworks and strategies aimed at enabling the workforce priorities to ensure high levels of engagement and a collaborative approach to issues resolution and change.

**_This is a fixed term full time position until September 2026_** in a hybrid working model with flexibility to work in our Elizabeth Street office in Sydney CBD as well as spending time in Sydney or regional areas as appropriate.

**For more information on this position, view the**role description**.**

**About you**

You’re a proactive and self-driven individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to engage and build effective working relationships with a diverse range of people. We are looking for a highly engaged and experienced industrial relations professional with a passion for lifting performance and focussing on outcomes. You have experience managing IR in a complex organisation (bus operations would be ideal, however we would be open to other similar operational industries), with active union representation.

You will have significant experience in understanding how to best implement business needs and identify risks and benefits in what can be a high pressured and time sensitive environment. You will have strong negotiating skills and the ability to establish yourself as a trusted advisor across the organisation.

We are looking for a highly engaged and experienced industrial relations professional with a passion for thinking creatively and are proactive about what can be adapted within the boundaries of policy arrangements as well as lifting performance and focussing on outcomes.

You will have a balanced understanding of customer needs as well as business requirements which is pivotal for this role to ensure customer needs are met whilst driving key business outcomes. You will be familiar with state government agency intricacies and have strong stakeholder negotiation skills.
- Proven high level strategic thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills in an industrial environment.
- Strong negotiation skills and proven ability to be innovative in resolving conflict.
- Comprehensive knowledge of the industrial relations discipline.
- Experience with working in a blue-collar workforce.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced complex customer centric and dynamic environment where delivery on tight deadlines and managing conflicting priorities are critical.

**Who we are**

Transport for NSW provides a safe, integrated, and efficient transport system. We connect people, communities and industry every day.

**Join us**

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

**This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days.**

**Applications close: 11:59 pm Thursday 30th January 2025.**

People living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment proces