People and Culture Manager

**Position**:
**People and**
**Culture Manager**

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**People and**
**Culture Manager**

The Role of the People and CultureManager
The People and Culture Manager will serve as a Business Partner and provide on-the
- ground support on Human Resources (HR) issues affecting, the School of Veterinary

Medicine (SVM), TAHMU (The Animal Hospital at Murdoch University) and Farms. As a

people and culture professional this role will assess and anticipate people-related needs,

and through collaborative partnerships across the area deliver value-added service to

management and employees.

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**About Murdoch University**

Murdoch University helps people discover how to make a difference, through

education and research endeavor, and remains one of the most inclusive universities

in the country, providing students with quality education and recognized academic

standing within an engaging and caring environment. We are a university for all,

irrespective of background and social standing with a focus on social equity, self
- direction and freedom of thought and belief.

With strong links to government, business and the community, Murdoch University

helps people discover how to make a difference. We are a young, innovative and

enterprising university with more than 23,000 students and 1,700 staff across Perth,

Singapore and Dubai. We are committed to high quality education, innovative

research, and strong community engagement both locally and internationally.

Our Strategic Plan and Future Horizon 2017-2027 outlines an ambitious blueprint for

development and growth, with a focus on one purpose: to be a creative force for

current and future generations.

We are clear about our two core goals: to educate free thinkers who thrive in society

and are sought after by employers; and, to provide life changing solutions for the

world’s big challenges through our outstanding translational research and innovative

practice.

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**About the work area**

The People and Culture team is an integral part of the business strategy and decision
- making process focusing their efforts on strategic and operational programs and

services that support staff and organisational objectives. We develop partnerships

based on trust and integrity to foster excellence, engagement and fairness, as we work

to strengthen the

University’s ability to recruit and retain high-quality staff and develop a culture that

encourages and supports academics and professional staff to reach their full potential.

This particular role will focus on TAHMU and the Farms and the complexity surrounding

supporting an operation that runs a commercial operation that runs 24/7, whilst heavily

involved with the Veterinary School of Medicine at the university.

Reporting Relationships

Associate Director,
Partnerships

People and Culture
Manager

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**Key responsibilities & duties**:

- In collaboration with key stakeholders

and centres of excellence, identify,
**Business Partnering **design and implement HR strategies and
- solutions to achieve agreed outcomes- Build strong, close workingrelationships relating to organisational design,

based on credibility and open organisational change, performance
communication. management, workforce and strategic
- planning and other generalist HR- Work as part of the People and Culture activities inclusive of effective negotiation

team to share good practices, ensure a and consultation with staff.
broad consistency of approach, represent

the perspective of their responsible area - Support the development and implementation
and cover each other asnecessary. of HR policies and practices in line with driving
- the strategic HR direction and People and- Take a coaching approach and provide Culture HR Framework.

management information to facilitate

effective, consistent, empowering people - Assist SVM and TAHMU with the

management - expecting and enabling development of a recruitmentand retention

managers to assume increasing strategy.

responsibility for all aspects of people
**Employee Relations**

management.
- Undertake routine case management with
- the support of the Employee Relations team.- Work in partnership with senior

management teams to identify the people

implications of strategic plans and other - Serve as an escalation point for complex

developments. Promote new ways of employee relations issues, as well as

working and agree on appropriate local-level proposed rostering and cont