• Flexible hybrid work environment - Full time role
• Great work culture with a supportive team
• Excellent Employee Benefits, including four wellness days off a year
• Join us to become Australia’s leading service for people with complex behaviours
• Competitive pay + super + NFP salary packaging + 4 extra days of paid leave
• Make a lasting difference in the lives of people with disability
• Join our inclusive, passionate, creative, and empathetic team!

Fighting Chance is on the lookout for a HR Senior Business Partner to provide advice, coaching & support to our people managers along with assisting in the development and efficiencies of our HR operations.

You will have the opportunity to partner with enterprise leaders to introduce and embed key HR processes as well as develop people management capability. It is essential that you are up to date with your understanding of employment legislation, modern awards and contemporary HR practices. To be highly effective in this role, you will need to build strong working relationships with managers and employees across the Fighting Chance enterprises.

This could be your opportunity to:

• Work collaboratively providing best practice HR support and guidance
• Establish HR’s position as a trusted partner and advisor across the enterprises by identifying new opportunities to build capability in the area of people management, workforce planning, diversity, culture and engagement.
• Model and culture of continuous improvement

ABOUT FIGHTING CHANCE

Fighting Chance designs, builds and scales social enterprises which move the dial for Australians with disability and their family. We work to identify the challenges, hurdles and barriers faced by people with disability in their everyday lives and then design and build sustainable social enterprise businesses to bridge these gaps. Our mission is to ask ‘WHAT IF?’, to see the world as it isn’t yet, to imagine a future quite different to the present. And then to make it happen!

Our values underpin the way we work

• The person is the point
• The power of yes
• We're trailblazers
• A hand up, not a hand out
• Unbeatable workforce

ABOUT THE ROLE

Based at our Frenchs Forest office and working within our People & Culture team, this role will provide high quality HR support and solutions.

In this broad role, we are looking for an experienced Senior HR professional who can build strong relationships with our Managers and employees to help them feel supported and empowered. Reporting to the General Manager your main responsibilities will include:

• Develop and maintain strong partnerships with all Stakeholders.
• Provide coaching and advice to Managers regarding team design, succession planning, employee & industrial relations and HR initiatives.
• Mentor Managers to help them achieve team performance objectives.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all Industrial Relations matters within the workplace.
• Develop HR policy and procedures.
• Respond to HR inquiries from Managers and employees.
• Assist with projects with and alongside the P&C team.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of Australian employment legislation (Fair Work Act and Modern and contemporary HR practices).
• Ability to identify solutions to challenging problems that may arise
• Critical thinking, problem solving and continuous improvement mindset
• Dealing with workplace relations issues such as complaints, conflicts, grievances, and misconduct
• Understanding and experience in performance management & resolution
• Ability to work autonomously and prioritise workload.

YOU WILL NEED:

• A relevant tertiary qualification and/or 5+ years recent experience in a human resources business partnering position or equivalent.
• An understanding of (and/or experience with) NDIS and working with people with a disability, particularly in a Supported Independent Living (SIL) setting – Highly desirable.
• Experience interpreting SCHADS and Labour Market Awards.
• Possess or be willing to obtain a NDIS Worker Screening Check and a Working with Children Check.

REQUIRED TO:

• Possess the right to work in Australia.
• Possess or be willing to obtain a NDIS Worker Screening Check and a Working with Children Check.
• Be willing to travel to Fighting Chance Hubs on occasion.

HOW TO APPLY

Please attach a cover letter along with your resume, outlining your suitability for this role and why you want to work for Fighting Chance.