• Senior partnering role leading people initiatives and creating organisational impact
• Drive meaningful change at scale across a national purpose led organisation
• Permanent full-time position, based in Sydney NSW, Melbourne VIC or Brisbane QLD (Hybrid Flexibility)

The Smith Family is a national, independent children’s education charity that works with children and young people to overcome educational inequality caused by poverty – so they can thrive now and into their futures.  As we continue to uplift our organisational capability and embed a high performing, people focused culture, we are now seeking an experienced people partner to join our People & Culture team.

About the role

In this newly created role, you will report to the Group Manager People Partnering and be responsible for leading and providing strategic HR partnering to senior leaders across the The Smith Family. You will co-create strategies to align workforce capability with our organisational priorities, ensuring our People Partnering strategy supports the broader business strategy whilst driving positive team member experience.

As a trusted advisor, you will coach and guide leaders through complex employee matters, workforce planning, and organisational change, while ensuring wellbeing and inclusion across a diverse and geographically dispersed workforce.

You will lead a team of 3 (2x People Partner, 1x Generalist), and work within the broader People Partnering team to deliver consistent, high quality partnering.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys balancing hands on partnering with leading a team and thrives in a collaborative, purpose-led environment.

Key accountabilities:

• Partner with senior leaders to develop and implement people strategies aligned to The Smith Family organisational goals and priorities
• Lead workforce planning activities, including capability development, and succession planning
• Guide people leaders on complex employee relations matters, including performance, conduct, grievances and high-risk cases
• Support organisational change initiatives and coach leaders through change and transformation
• Define and manage people partnering team portfolio allocation and resourcing, ensuring high quality service delivery
• Ensure compliance with industrial frameworks including Fair Work, SCHADS Award, WHS and safeguarding obligations
• Use workforce data and insights to inform decision-making and continuous improvement

About you

You are an experienced HR professional who brings strong generalist capability and experience working with senior leaders. You have deep expertise across core partnering activities. You have demonstrated ability to influence at senior levels across diverse stakeholder groups and are comfortable navigating complexity in a thoughtful, pragmatic way. You are collaborative, purpose driven, and passionate about creating an inclusive, high performing culture.

You will have the following skills and experience:

• Extensive senior HR partnering experience, including core components of generalist activity, e.g. stakeholder advisory, employee lifecycle management, ER and case management, strategic workforce planning, and organisational change and design
• Demonstrated experience managing complex workplace matters and working with regulatory frameworks at scale
• Knowledge of employment law, ER/IR, and WHS
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills at senior leadership level
• Demonstrated success working in a complex organisation with a geo-graphically dispersed workforce
• Experience in education, community services or not-for-profit sectors is desirable

Our benefits

At The Smith Family, employees are at the heart of what we do. Joining our team means you can:

• Find balance; with flexible work options and opportunities to purchase additional annual leave
• Maximise your take home pay; with salary packaging, as well as opportunities to save with discounts at retailers across the country
• Fulfil your potential, with excellent career opportunities, a suite of development programs and a dedicated learning and development platform
• Feel you belong; with inclusive leave options, including paid parental, cultural and gender affirmation leave
• Thrive; with support for you and your family’s mental and physical health including a complete care and safety platform, unlimited Employee Assistance and access to a huge range of fitness facilities with Fitness Passport

If you are passionate about partnering with leaders to create meaningful people outcomes and are ready to make a difference at scale, please click 'Apply Now', we’d love to hear from you.

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate must be prepared to undertake a National Police Check and a Working with Children Check. We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to cultural diversity. Applications from people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged.

A position description is attached.