We have an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisor to join our Sydney or Melbourne office for a 12-month contract and be supported by our People and Development team nationally. As a highly motivated HR professional you will be a self-starter who will be capable of providing a hands-on approach to your client groups.
To be successful and thrive in this role you will have the following skills:
- Minimum of 3 years of previous experience within Human Resources and minimum of 1 year in a HR Advisor role.
- Previous experience working in a legal or professional services environment
- Demonstrated stakeholder management, influencing, and accountability skills - especially with senior leaders
- Demonstrated experience in providing high quality advice and guidance on people plans, engagement and initiatives
- Sound knowledge and understanding of Fair Work Act, Awards and contractual requirements, and Workplace Health and Safety legislation
- Ability to build rapport and foster trusted relationships within the P&D team and across the firm
- Takes initiative and ownership for role deliverables and projects
- Works well under pressure, in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple and competing priorities and to ensure service delivery
- Tertiary qualifications in human resources, management, business or equivalent preferred
Your role
You will play an exciting and integral role partnering with our people leaders and staff to drive high performance in alignment with the firm’s vision and strategy. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering people initiatives and managing operations across the full employee life cycle for your client groups, both locally and nationally. This includes:
- Coaching partners and managers to build leadership capability, strengthen team performance and embed a high-performance culture aligned to the firm’s objectives
- Contributes to and supports broader People and Development cyclical initiatives including capability development programs, reward and recognition activities, policy development and updates, and cross-functional projects
- Partners with client groups through active participation in team meetings, providing information including workforce data and clear communication on people priorities and performance outcomes and planned initiatives
- Managing employee relations and performance management issues applying sound judgement and risk awareness while supporting leaders to achieve fair, timely and sustainable outcomes
- Drives Performance and talent management practices
- Ensures compliance with WHS/OH&S obligations, embedding safe work practices
- Providing responsive advice to employee queries and requests
About Gadens
At Gadens, we engage with all of our people to create a work environment that encourages and promotes inclusion and diversity, while instilling pride in the firm and our values of collaborate, authentic, responsible and excellent. Our values and culture assist us in creating a cohesive environment in which we are committed equally to professionalism and personal fulfilment. We strive to create a culture where the principles of sustainability and corporate social responsibility are embraced and lived by our people every day. This includes respecting and connecting with First Nations people and providing access to justice to those in need through our pro bono practice. This is what makes Gadens a great place to work.
Gadens is a leading, independent Australian law firm, with a clear vision and strategy for the future. We help people achieve their purpose in a complex world, by leading by example, inspiring others, innovating and building something we are all proud of.
At Gadens, we:
- develop and inspire our people
- do the right thing and make an impact
- work with quality clients in our chosen markets
- solve problems with people and technology working seamlessly together
- are a widely recognised and respected brand
What we offer
- 30 weeks paid parental leave – Our market leading policy includes 30 weeks paid parental leave for all permanent staff, with no tenure required. This includes superannuation contributions while on parental leave, an external coach to support through various stages of parental leave and support and paid leave for surrogacy and IVF treatment.
- Flexibility – Hybrid working arrangements. This includes flexible working hours as well as equipment to support working from home.
- Annual leave - Ability to purchase up to 3 weeks of annual leave a year as well as a gifted day of leave for your birthday month which we call “Gadens day”
- Health & Wellbeing – We offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits to empower and support our people including, regular social events, employee assistant program, bonus program for non-fee earners, discounted private health insurance, annual flu vaccinations, skin checks, recognition awards and much more!
- Learning & Development –We promote a culture of continuous learning opportunities including access to professional development for all employees, coaching, mentoring study support as well for further education.
- Community involvement – We give back to the community through our well-established pro bono program as well as staff volunteering initiatives.
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