Coordinator, People

Posted: 06/05/2025

Closing Date: 06/06/2025

Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Macquarie

Job Category: People & Culture

**Our Purpose and Ambition**

NextSense is a not-for-profit organisation supporting people with vision or hearing loss across Australia. We work with children, adults, and their families, providing a holistic approach to hearing services for newborns through to people over 90 years old, and helping children who are blind or have low vision to develop the right skills, mobility, and independence to confidently explore their world.

NextSense has been breaking boundaries since 1860, and we’ve been expanding our services ever since. Today, we deliver world-class education (both to children with sensory loss and to professionals in the field), cochlear implants, allied health services, therapy, research, and clinical services to children and adults. We’re a registered NDIS provider, working with our clients to achieve their own goals and potential.

We’re committed to research and innovation; harnessing the latest technologies and new ways of thinking and educating the next generation to lead the way in hearing and vision services.

Our new world-leading centre for innovation on-site at Macquarie University NSW represents a new era for hearing and vision loss. This nationally significant social infrastructure project was undertaken to nurture, trial and share new ideas and form new partnerships that will drive better outcomes for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or have low vision.

**The Role**

NextSense has an exciting opportunity for a People & Culture Coordinator to join our team based on campus, in a brand new building, at Macquarie University.

As P&C Coordinator, you will be the first point of contact for human resources related advice and employment relations enquiries. You'll be instrumental in communicating and delivering P&C initiatives across the organisation and actively contributing to key projects.

You’ll make a difference in this role by:

- delivering high-quality administrative support to the People & Culture function and ongoing human resources support to NextSense staff
- partnering with People Managers and P&C Business Partners to provide comprehensive generalist support
- supporting the entire employee lifecycle including recruitment and selection, induction, professional development and training, employee engagement initiatives and managing exits
- coordinating the NextSense volunteer program and student placements
- responding to the transactional needs of the organisation, maintaining employee records and compliance requirements, conducting data analysis and generating reports as required

Reporting directly to the Head of People and Culture, we're offering this role on a permanent full-time basis, 38 hours per week, Monday to Friday. You'll work primarily on-site, ensuring close collaboration with colleagues and full integration into our workplace culture to support our services. While the position requires a regular presence in the office, we offer flexibility around on-site hours and occasional remote work, depending on team needs and individual circumstances.

**What we can offer you**
- Competitive remuneration
- 100% salary packaging allowing you to increase your take home pay
- Extensive personal/carer’s leave
- 2 weeks paid leave over Christmas in addition to 4 weeks annual leave
- Paid parental leave of 14 weeks for primary carers and 6 weeks for secondary carers
- Access to industry leading education and professional development
- Collaborative work environment
- Wellbeing program including Employee Assistance Program

**Desired Skills and Experience**:
To be successful in this role you'll need to demonstrate you meet the following selection criteria.

Essential:

- 1-2 years experience in a similar role or 2-3 years experience in a Human Resources administrative role
- strong Microsoft Office suite skills (Excel, Outlook, Word)
- strong written and verbal communication skills
- strong attention to detail and desire to take initiative
- excellent interpersonal skills
- ability to actively liaise and engage with internal and external stakeholders
- ability to handle multiple competing priorities, meet deadlines and drive tasks to completion
- strong time management skills
- a verified NSW Working With Children Check and criminal record check
- passion, patience, and responsiveness are essential in this position as well as an eagerness to learn, and most importantly, an enjoyment of working with people.

Desired:

- Bachelor's degree or certification in Human Resources, Commence, Business or a related field
- familiarity with recruitment software (e.g. SEEK, LinkedIn Recruiter)
- prior experience implementing or using a Human Resources Information System (HRIS) such as ELMO, Employment Hero, SAP etc
- general understanding of the Australian industrial landscape, Fair Work Act, enterprise agreement interpretation and workplace health and