Position title: / People & Culture Business Partner
Reporting to: / People & Culture Snr Business Partner
Division: / People, Leadership & Culture
Evaluated levelof the position: / Senior Manager Band 1
Stratum levelof role: / Level 1 - Operator - 1 day - 3 months
Position number: / tbc
Hours worked: / Senior Manager
Flexible work arrangements are available: / Yes
Initial location: / Homebush
Requirement for vehicle: / Is the employee required to drive a vehicle as part of the role? / Yes
Does the employee have to provide a car for work purposes
(Budgeted in their TRP)? / No

Section 1: Purpose

Partner with CBXP program leadership teams with support for the delivery of program and corporate strategies and initatives.

Section 2: Key accountabilities and outcomes/tasks

Technical accountabilities

• Partner with leadership teams to deliver corporate and program people initiatives and ensure people impacts are considered as part of business plans and initatives.
• Integrate all areas of People & Culture expertise, driving the People & Culture model in the business and providing business insight to COEs and Business Centre.
• Advocate for People & Culture strategy, programs and policies within the business.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of People & Culture programs, policies and procedures.
• Provide input to People & Culture Business Partner into divisional workforce plans as well as people management policies and processes that integrate business direction & issues and People & Culture priorities.
• Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, talent management, workforce planning and succession.

Programming accountabilities

• Co-ordinate implementation of corporate People & Culture initiatives
• Planning, prioritising and completing project work as required
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Key behaviours

All staff are accountable for demonstrating Sydney Water’s key behaviours of:

Honesty
  • We display professionalism and integrity in everything we do
  • We keep our word, and do what we say we will
  • We work within policies, systems and procedures and refer to our manager when appropriate
  • We speak to others with an open mind
Teamwork
  • We actively participate in work meetings and activities
  • We treat people in an honest, courteous and respectful manner
  • We work cooperatively with one another to solve problems and share information
  • We maintain a strong, two-way, trusting relationship with our manager to achieve goals
  • We ask for help from our manager when we need it
Achievement-driven
  • With our manager, we look for ways to improve tasks, systems and processes
  • We are flexible and can adapt to change
  • We will overcome barriers to success
  • We actively participate in people management processes such as setting goals and development
Personal responsibility
  • We take responsibility for our mistakes and learn from them
  • We use our skills, experience and discretion to achieve the best results
  • We are reliable and deliver what we say we will
  • We quickly raise any issues with our work with our manager

Additional duties

Sydney Water expects all staff to do other projects and perform additional duties as required.

Section 3: Role relationships

Direct and indirect reports

Title and number of direct reports.

Not applicable

Indirect reports.

0

Across the organisation

Title and Task Initiating Role Relationships (TIRR) authorities.

Line Managers - Coordinate for strategic workforce plan

External

Contact and nature of relationship.

Not applicable

Section 4: Capability

Knowledge, skills and experience

Basic knowledge

Formal education required.

Relevant tertiary qualifications and 5 years relevant HR Experience. Have a good knowledge of HR functions eg: recruitment, learning & development, remuneration management, industrial relations, injury management.
Good knowledge of Sydney Water awards, agreements, HR policies, procedures and conditions of employment OR ability to acquire knowledge
Sound understanding of change management principles
Skills

Specific skills, software packages or licences required to perform the position and at what level.

Demonstrated ability to communicate with impact using highly developed written & verbal communication skills.
Demonstrated working experience in project and program environments
Effective time management skills, ability to manage and deliver competing day-to-day priorities while maintaining progress on key projects, to operate in matrix reporting structure, balancing conflicting requirements from a diverse range of stakeholders and ability to assist leaders create and maintain and effective workplace culture
Ability to use MS Office suite to develop complex written documents, presentations & summarised data in excel to analyse & report data. Experience interrogating data and developing business performance reports
Experience

Experience needed for the position.

Experience in successfully coaching managers to build people management capabilities using an effective consulting model, influencing business decisions and leadership teams through the provision of specialist HR advice, dealing with unions and ability to transfer ER/IR capability to line managers.
Experience in developing and implementing successful HR strategies and change projects.
Additional knowledge and skills

Desirable knowledge, skills or experience needed for the position.

Workplace assessment and train small groups qualifications
Coaching and Facilitation Skills
Specialist knowledge of one or more HR functions and an understanding of WH&S issues
Experience with workplace assessment and competency based training
Experience mediating and resolving conflict at the workplace level
Knowledge and experience in Requisite Organisation principles
Physical requirements
Office Based

Description:

Works in an office and does no field work.

Recommendation

I recommend that the position description be authorised.

Prepared by:
Ananda van Vuuren, People & Culture snr Business Partner
Approved by:
Zaklina Craig, Head of People and Culture

Document No: HRMS_F_000724 October 2018

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