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About the role

The Employee Relations Manager is responsible for the provision of leadership and high-level advice and direction on employee and industrial relations services and related activities and matters. The role acts as a key business partner CPA's business areas and manages the provision of day-to-day operational expertise and guidance to ensure legislative and HR best practice compliance.

Managing a small team of ER professionals, providing leadership, guidance and coaching to ensure timely, effective resolution of complex IR/ER issues. This is a hands on role in a large complex business, with regular involvement in various initiatives across remuneration benchmarking, people experience, DEI and employee engagement

Duties include

• Lead an advisory team of four, ensuring they are equipped to effectively support leaders with a wide range of people matters

• Provide expertise, guidance and coaching to managers to ensure compliance with legislative requirements, to resolve complex ER matters

• Manage the design and development of policies, procedures and training to ensure compliance and to help build leadership capability

• Collaborate with key managers on attraction, retention, employee development and engagement strategies to identify opportunities to make the organisation an employer of choice

• Provide representation of the organisation at industrial tribunals and external forums

• Drive the implementation of initiatives and practices that ensures the team effectively engages with and support changes across the organisation

• Partner, support and monitor industrial instruments including the development and implementation of agreed industrial instruments for new and existing projects to ensure compliance with workplace laws

• Lead various projects, ensuring project performance and delivery within agreed timelines and budget

• Build and maintain relationships with key internal stakeholders to successfully effect changes to policies and procedures

• Develop and manage interactions with unions and other industrial bodies to maintain constructive relationships

About you:

• Extensive experience in the field of Human Resources, working autonomously at a senior level

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree or Higher Post Graduate studies in a relevant field (Human Resources, Employee Relations, Business, Law, Commerce).

• Strong leadership capability, able to coach mentor and engage a high performing team

• Ideally experience in a range of service delivery/operational sectors would be demonstrable

• Demonstrated experience managing multiple major projects at once

• Demonstrated experience in influencing and working collaboratively with employees at all levels across CPA

• Up to date knowledge on relevant employment legislation

• Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal working with a high level of attention to detail

Important information:

At CPA the safety of our staff and clients is of paramount importance. We have assessed this role type as requiring a low level of physical functionality with some inherent requirements. For more information on what that may mean for this role please click here

How to Apply

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CPA will be closed over the holidays, applications will be reviewed in early January.