Principal Adviser Industrial Relations

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / 31/12/2025

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $134,593 - $180,115

Occupation: Human Resources

Reference: VG/D02272AUGUST2024

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?
- **Utilise your Human Resources expertise to provide support and advice to the Employee and Workplace Relations branch**:

- **A Fixed-Term opportunity with flexible work arrangements within a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service**:

- **VPS Grade 6: $134,593 - $180,115 plus superannuation.**

**About the Business Unit**:
Employee and Workplace Relations is responsible for management of the Justice portfolio's industrial relations program, the management of departmental employee relations issues, the department's Human Resource Business Partnerships and also administers the internal review of actions process.

**About the Role**:
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Industrial Relations, this role will work and provide advice across an extensive range of employment matters.

Some of your duties will include:

- Providing expert support and authoritative employment and industrial relations advice, which includes a clear assessment, consideration and articulation of risk, to executive and senior management stakeholders on a range of highly complex and sensitive employment issues
- Providing pragmatic advice, direction and guidance to internal human resources staff undertaking complex case management work, based on advanced expertise in the fields of workplace relations and industrial relations legislation and policy
- Preparing technical reports, policy papers and authoritative briefings on complex employment and industrial relations matters.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

**About You**:

- Significant experience in the provision of authoritative employee and industrial relations advice and issue management to deliver successful organisational outcomes, preferably within a Government workplace
- An expert understanding of the legislative and industrial framework that applies to the Victorian Public Service, including the Public Administration Act 2004, the Fair Work Act 2009 and the Victorian Public Service Enterprise Agreement 2020
- The ability to develop long-term and multi-phased plans to influence others while implementing complex strategies to build buy-in from key internal and external clients/stakeholders.

**How to Apply**:
**_ FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:_**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.