About Our Watch

Our Watch is a national leader of primary prevention of violence against women and their children. Our vision is an Australia where women and their children live free from all forms of violence. Our role is to stop violence before it starts. We work to embed gender equality and prevent violence where Australians live, learn, work and socialise. We encourage applicants to visit our website and learn about the essential actions needed to prevent violence against women. To follow the ongoing conversation about preventing family violence against women please like our Facebook, Instagram, twitter or LinkedIn pages.

About the role

Reporting to the Manager of People and Culture, this new People and Culture Advisor role will have end-to-end responsibility for transactional HR functions and will contribute to progressing various strategic HR initiatives internally. This role will suit an experienced operational HR expert who enjoys the variety of project administration. Some areas of focus for this role will be:

• Coordinate end to end recruitment and onboarding processes ensuring policy, procedures, agreed programs and equity is maintained.
• Administering day to day changes to employee arrangements
• Support the implementation and coordination of L&D activities
• Support the ongoing review of HR systems in use
• Assist in the design of initiatives and promote activities that increase employee participation and engagement
• Provide appropriate advice and support to leaders
• Coordinate activity associated with annual performance reviews
• Prepare reports, presentations and other key documents as required
• Coordinate or participate in other committee, team and cross functional meetings and projects as required.

About you

You will have demonstrated experience working across various areas of HR and you enjoy working in an ambitious environment that requires you to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. You’ll be systematic and tech savvy. You’re known for your exceptional level of detail and strong communication skills. Being successful in this role will rely on your ability to adapt and utilise the endless opportunities that exist in an organisation post a significant growth phase.

Why work for us

Our Watch is strongly committed to the wellbeing of its employees, and we strive to continuously improve our employee experiences at work. Our Watch was recently recognised at the 2023 Australian HR Awards for the Best Workplace Flexibility Program and receiving an Excellence Award as an Employer of Choice in the Not-for-Profit Sector. Our Watch has also recently been announced as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia.

For the full list of our award winning employee benefits, please view the 'Work with us' page on our website: https://www.ourwatch.org.au/about-us/work-with-us/ 

A few of our unique award winning benefits include:

• Commitment to work life balance for staff, including flexible hours/ ways of working and 5 additional personal leave days per year.
• 12 weeks paid parental leave for all new parents.
• Innovative leave policies, such as floating public holiday leave, cultural leave
• Cultural remuneration package for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff

How to Apply

To apply, please click on the apply now button and upload your current resume and cover letter for consideration. Please note, applications with a cover letter will be prioritised.

Hybrid, remote and work from home options considered within Australia.

Our Watch is committed to diversity, we value people of all cultures, languages, capacities, sexual orientations, gender identities and we strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Our Watch is proud to offer Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander staff an additional remuneration package in recognition of the cultural load they carry and ongoing impacts of colonisation.

We are passionate about providing a barrier-free recruitment process, if you require modifications during the application process to meet your access needs, please contact us.

Applications for this role will be assessed as received.

A position description is attached.