People and Culture Business Partner

**Location**:Cremorne

**Role Type**:Full Time Ongoing

**About The Role**:
Bendigo Kangan Institute is looking for a **People and Culture Business Partner **to join a leading team. Within your role you will be responsible for an interesting, challenging, and varied portfolio. One that includes us People Culture and Strategy portfolio - will encompass communications, strategy, organisational development, organisational safety, and talent acquisition. This position will suit an individual that takes their role seriously but not themselves

This is a high touch environment and will suit someone that enjoys building relationships to truly partner with all our stakeholders. We aim to be the best we can be for our students and staff.

Your experience could be from a similar environment, but we are flexible A highly strategic role where you will support the organisational leaders to executive business objectives and deliver solutions, and in turn develop a deep understanding of the current vs future capability needs.

At BKI, our purpose is to empower people and industry with the skills to create a bright future. To do that, we foster a culture that is _customer-centric _, work _together _and focuses on _achieving our best _in a _healthy and supportive environment _. Our employees find what they do at BKI to be meaningful and enriching. If you are passionate about putting the customer first, thrive being part of a united and inclusive team who collaborate and support each other to achieve outstanding results, please read the detailed position description document to understand our values and focus.

**We are excited about you because you have**:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or considerable experience, including knowledge of IR/ER issues, Unions, Workers Compensation, mediation, complex HR issues, workforce planning honed over a number of years and industries
- Previous experience in education sector highly desirable
- A solid understanding of industrial relations landscape and employment frameworks
- Demonstrable experience as a People and Culture team member responsible for the development and implementation of people strategies
- Highly developed influencing, relationship building and customer service skills.
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), including the ability to deal sensitively with employees, and effectively engage stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving skills demonstrated through critical thinking and a high work ethic
- Experience with working effectively in teams, including achieving goals by contributing to the integration of resources, processes, systems, people, and policies
- Commitment to service, quality, with experience in change management
- A warm confident and flexible approach

**We can offer you**:

- Flexible hybrid work options
- Free onsite parking for most campuses
- Professional development programs
- Counselling support (EAP) and Health & Wellbeing initiatives throughout the year
- The opportunity to do meaningful and challenging work that makes a positive social impact
- Build a career in a world leading vocational education and training sector, with diverse and emerging career opportunities across Australia

**Things we will require from you**:

- Working with Children Check (WWCC) or willingness to obtain one prior to commencement.
- Current National Police Check or willingness to obtain one.
- Certified Right to Work document - Passport/Visa/Citizenship or Birth Certificate.
- Certified vocational qualifications and certified transcripts (as listed in Resume and if relevant to the position).
- COVID-19 vaccination certificate or a valid medical AIR exemption.

**About us**:
Bendigo Kangan Institute are the TAFE trading brands of Bendigo TAFE and Kangan Institute. As one of Victoria's largest TAFE providers, we want to stand out from the crowd with our state-of-the-art training centres offering a wide range of courses in a variety of fields.

VETASSESS and eWorks are also part of our wider organisation. VETASSESS is Australia's leading assessment partner and eWorks designs, builds and supports online learning.

We want to make a real difference for our students and communities, and we give people the opportunity to be the best they can be each day. We are a flexible, innovative, and dynamic place of learning and working with a rich multicultural atmosphere.

Position description below for your reference outlining key responsibilities of the role.

**_NOTE: BKI reserves the right to withdraw this advertised position at any stage._