Senior Industrial Relations Advisor

This is a permanent full-time position commencing ASAP

The Department’s Industrial and Employee Relations Directorate comprises two branches: Industrial Relations and Employee Relations. The Directorate is responsible for ensuring compliance with industrial instruments and associated legislative frameworks, supporting effective performance management and providing manager support for discrete human resource matters. It provides strategic and operational advice and support to the Minister, Director General, school leaders and line managers on a range of industrial and employee relations matters.

The Role

Senior Industrial Relations Advisors work with an Industrial Relations team in providing high-level advice, training, support and information, including Award and Agreement interpretation, employment, industrial relations, and performance management issues relevant to key stakeholders.

The successful applicant will operate with some autonomy, while receiving broad direction and instruction from the Manager Industrial Relations, in undertaking complex research and analysis, reporting on issues, and making recommendations to achieve successful industrial relations outcomes.

In this role, the applicant will develop responses to Ministerial correspondence and parliamentary questions, reports, and briefings in consultation with the Manager Industrial Relations. They will represent the Department before various industrial relations and other relevant forums on labour relations and related issues. They will be expected to provide input into the development, implementation and review of …