Head of HR Business Partnering

Company Description
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Creating a brighter future for all_**

Griffith University is a progressive, values-led university dedicated to learning, leadership, and innovation. This is your chance to help us achieve our vision to transform lives and add to human knowledge and understanding in a way that creates a future that benefits all.

Since opening in 1975, Griffith has grown from one campus and 451 students to become a comprehensive, multi-campus institution, with 50,000 students and more than 200,000 graduates.

A fabulous opportunity has just become available to lead an engaged and well regarded team of business partners at our Nathan Campus in Brisbane.

The Head of Business Partnering role is an important one and is responsible for ensuring that Griffith University has a capable, engaged and productive workforce that is fit to deliver its strategic and operational goals, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory and industrial requirements.

**Job Description**:
As Head of Business Partnering you will also play a pivotal role in the Human Resources Leadership team and work collaboratively to drive best practice HR excellence that enables Griffith to sustain and innovate their people practices including:

- Leading the implementation and enhancement of our HR Business Partnering model, including developing, implementing and continuing to improve the service model and HR solutions
- Positioning the Business Partnering team to provide trusted advice and proactive consultancy to leaders on HR policies, practices, plans, risks and/or issues, enabling them to make effective decisions about their workforces
- Providing thought leadership, work closely and collaborate with multiple stakeholders, utilising and leveraging skills, capabilities and talents in Business Partnering
- Ensuring that senior leaders and managers have the HR knowledge, solutions and confidence to manage their people in accordance with relevant legislation, policies, practices and values.
- Continuous improvement to the HR governance approach, processes, cadences; ensuring that projects, initiatives, services and capability comply with relevant legislation and University policies and procedures and values.
- Leading and promoting compliance with relevant legislation and University policies and procedures, including diversity and safety and exhibit good practice

**Qualifications**:
To be successful in this role, you must demonstrate:

- Strong business partnering experience, preferably in the Tertiary Education sector
- Leadership capability - be collaborative, pragmatic, innovative, engaging, compassionate and empowering;
- Proven expertise driving and enabling business outcomes for your clients;
- The ability to influence, support, coach and navigate senior levels of management in all HR-related matters;
- Experience in IR/ER would be advantageous;
- Strategic thinking ability with strong commercial acumen;
- Superior communication capability and superior stakeholder management skills.

Additional Information

As a values-led organisation, at Griffith University, we've worked hard to create a dynamic and strong organisational culture. We support the professional and personal development of all our employees and invest in the skills of our people. We offer:

- An attractive remuneration package will be offered commensurate with the experience.
- mix of on campus and work from home options available and a supportive work environment.
- salary packaging options and corporate health discounts.
- generous leave entitlements including paid parental leave and leave loading.
- support with future learning opportunities through our educational staff assistance scheme.
- This is a fixed term(5 years), full time position and can be primarily based at the Griffith University Nathan / Gold Coast campus. As Griffith is a multi-campus University you may be required to work across other campus locations._

Griffith University values diversity, inclusion and flexibility and we encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. For more information please visit our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion page.

**How to apply**
- A covering letter
- Current curriculum vitae, including name and contact details.

For further information please refer to the attached position description Head of HR Business Partnering

For further information specifically about this role, please contact _Jacques Liebenberg on 0429 678 721_

**Closing date**:Tuesday 31st January at 5 pm AEST.