People & Capability Advisor

**Introduction**:
We are Australia's Defence Bank, one of the largest member-owned financial institutions in Australia.

Defence Bank were established in 1975, have 30 branches across Australia, an award-winning mobile app, and 200 employees who make us a great place to work.

As a member-owned bank, we re-invest our profits into improving products and services for the benefit of our members who include the men, women and families that make up the defence community, who we serve with pride.

We consider it a privilege to serve those who protect us. To deliver on this, we need a team of passionate, dedicated and resilient individuals who are committed to making a difference for our members.

We are currently seeking an experienced People & Capability Advisor to join our team.

**Description**:
**The opportunity available**:
As a trusted advisor you will play a key role in supporting the employee life cycle. You will do this by supporting people projects, key cyclical people activities as well as supporting our continuous improvement initiatives.
What this may look like more specifically includes
- Supporting leaders with recruitment and onboarding of new employees.
- Health, safety, and wellbeing including workers' compensation.
- Supporting leaders with the performance cycle (performance framework) and people related issues (ie. Performance management through to resolution where needed.
- Running employee relations matters.
- Remuneration & benefits, including support with remuneration surveys and role & salary benchmarking.
- Deliver people projects and initiatives as defined by the Bank's strategic plan.
- Building trusted relationships and supporting/coaching leaders regarding the employee life cycle & people issues.
- Provide people administration support for the end-to-end employee lifecycle as required.
- All while complying with Defence Bank's policy, legal and regulatory requirements.

**Skills and Experiences**:
**About you**:
You're passionate about all things people, and you're comfortable working across all aspects of the employee lifecycle and enjoy alternating between managing and doing. Coaching and guiding leaders is a strength and you're comfortable rolling up your sleeves to get the job done. You're a team player who works collaboratively with others and can step into all facets of HR as needed with the relevant support.

**You will have demonstrated experience or skills in**:

- Broad aspects of the employee lifecycle.
- Case management.
- Leader coaching.
- Challenging the status quo.
- Planning, organising, and project delivery.
- Building effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
- Reviewing and improving processes.
- Problem solving, and troubleshooting.

The advantages of working with us?

**We believe there are many, including**:

- Our inclusive and friendly work culture broadly across the bank, and strongly within the team.
- The opportunity to work within our hybrid working model (including office days in our newly refurbished Support Office in the heart of Melbourne's CBD).
- An opportunity to make your mark and have a real, meaningful impact on the bank, and what and how we do what we do.

**We also offer a great range of benefits, including**:

- Access to our internal "reward and recognition" platform - vouchers, discounts, e-cards and much more.
- A hybrid working model providing great flexibility for our employees.
- Education Assistance.
- Corporate wardrobe allowance.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- A "Thank you" day - each year, our employees receive one additional day of paid leave.
- Volunteer and community service leave.

Interested? We'd like to hear from you.

If you would like to be a part of our passionate team, click Apply.

We welcome people from all backgrounds, genders, skill-base, lifestyles, personalities, and ages to provide a variety of understanding and experience to our bank and diverse membership base.