Principal Employee Relations Advisor

This is a permanent full-time position commencing ASAP

The Industrial and Employee Relations Directorate comprises the Industrial Relations and Employee Relations branches and is responsible for ensuring compliance with industrial instruments and associated legislative frameworks.

The Directorate provides strategic and operational advice and support on a wide range of industrial and employee relations matters, supports effective performance management, and assists school leaders and line managers with discrete human resource issues, including conduct, while advising the Minister, Director General and senior leaders on complex workforce matters.

The Role

The successful applicant will work with the Employee Relations team in providing strategic advice, training, support and information, including Award and Agreement interpretation, employment, industrial relations and performance management issues relevant to key stakeholders. This includes representing, promoting, protecting and negotiating the intention and interests of the Department and key stakeholders at a senior level in various industrial relations forums and other arenas.

The role is responsible for monitoring trends in employee relations and workplace reform to determine the impact on the Department and key stakeholders and provide timely and effective advice and recommendations to senior management and corporate executive as required. In addition, the successful applicant will oversee and coordinate the development and delivery of training resources and programs on a range of employee relations, performance management a…