Hr Partner

**Join the HR Partnering and Workplace Relations team with St Vincent de Paul Society**

**Full time 37.5 hours per week**

**Tax reducing salary packaging**

**Meaningful work**

**Supportive and interesting client portfolio**

**The Position**:
HR Partners (HRP's) work with the St Vincent de Paul Society (SVDP) Group people leaders to ensure alignment between human resources and business needs. This role is both a consultant and coach to the lines of business across the Group. The role will work closely with other HR teams and functions including People Support and Operations, Learning and Development, as well as other SVDP shared services functions in order to create effective and lasting solutions and best practices to better attract, develop, motivate, and retain the most valuable asset-it's people.

The HR Partnering role will implement forward-thinking ideas into the organisation through staying connected to what's happening with the workforce and its issues, the HR community, the sector, as well as the wider marketplace.

**Partnering portfolio**

This role will partner with the SVDP Conferences and Special Works Programs (Soup Van Operations, Education, Call Centre and Nils)

**The Person**:
You are currently working as a HR Partner or Senior HR Adviser and are an engaging HR professional with significant HR experience, both operational and strategic within a complex environment. You will have extensive employee relations knowledge and are known for being responsive, approachable, empathetic and service oriented, you will confidently build connections with our leaders and create robust working relationships that add value and drive the HR Strategy. Positive impact is what we are all about so if you are someone who has initiative in abundance and a drive to help people succeed, then we want you to apply

As a trusted Partner you seek to:

- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Design, develop and innovate future focused and value adding solutions
- Drive a high-performance culture which is supported by coaching, ensuring activities are performed in a fair and equitable manner and in compliance with legislative requirements.
- Provide specialist input into business strategies and plans, linking people initiatives to business goals, including guidance and support on employee engagement and change management initiatives
- Identify workforce trends and develop actions to mitigate issues

You will be enthusiastic, highly organised, detail orientated and driven by a commitment to delivering exceptional customer service. You will bring a "hands on" approach and be a proactive operator who thrives on achieving great outcomes for your key stakeholders.

**Why work for us? We offer**:

- Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
- We like to have a laugh and you will always find some sort of chocolate or cake in our work areabe prepared
- We make an incredible difference in the lives of over 300,000 people every year.
- We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organisation committed to helping others. We are passionate about #Social Justice.
- We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way.
- We are complex in our design which always makes work interesting.

**#Join Good**

If making a difference in your local community is important to you and you meet our essential requirements, we can't wait to hear from you. Please send us your updated resume and a cover letter in word format that tells us a little more about you and why you would be perfect for the role.

The process will include phone screening and a panel interview.

For more information, please read the position description here.

Please note that prior to any commencement of employment, pre-employment checks must be completed this will include reference checking, psychometric assessment, a national criminal history check and a working with children check.

**_ St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria is proactive in supporting child safety_**

**_ We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences._