Senior HR Business Partner (Fixed Term Contract)

We’re looking for a confident and experienced Senior HR Business Partner to join a forward-thinking and values-led organisation with a clear purpose that its people are proud of. It is a highly innovative business within the Education sector.

On offer is a fantastic opportunity to step into a broad role on a fixed-term basis for 7 - 8 months, starting ASAP. Partner closely with senior people leaders to drive impactful people initiatives aligned with strategic goals; and implement the people plan in a meaningful, engaging and pragmatic way to support a shift in business unit capability and performance.

Lead initiatives and implement others, enjoy contributing to organisation-wide transformational change, contributing thought leadership and constructively challenging key aspects of the people strategy as it evolves and support its implementation.

About the role

As a Senior HR Business Partner reporting to the Chief People Officer, you’ll relish being in a high-performing professional HR team of 6 including working alongside another Senior HR Business Partner, a junior HR Business Partner, Talent Partner and Talent Coordinator.

Key responsibilities include :

• Accountable for working with leaders to diagnose current effectiveness, co-create a future ambition and shape the people aspects that are pivotal in achieving a shift. Once change is agreed, apply change management expertise to draft and implement an approach to change that considers employee experience, organisational and operational risk, & has a positive impact.
• Support Senior Leaders and their team with architecting and embedding a culture that’s engaging and collaborative to achieve high performance outcomes which customers and stakeholders value.
• Advise, coach and give feedback for managers and leaders that empowers them to effectively manage their teams, so they outperform, are engaged and retained - for example in areas of talent, performance, succession planning, development, engagement survey actions, health and wellbeing and employment relations.
• Creating and implementing a resource plan for the function that optimises expertise to confidently meet the requirements of current and future workload. This includes forecasting requirements for strategic hires, early career roles and technical experts in appropriate locations and ensuring new hires are set up for success.

What we’re ideally looking for :

In addition, you'll be competent with :

This role offers variety, influence, and the opportunity to work with some great leaders, within an excellent People team; and contribute meaningfully to people outcomes in a progressive and values-driven setting.

The People team are generally in the fabulous CBD office 3 days per week and have flexible working arrangements. Ideally you'll be able to do a little travel occasionally to growing offices outside of Auckland.

Have we sparked your interest? Apply now or call Sharon for a quick chat! Sharon Ward Duncan –

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