Employee Relation Manager

Industrial Relations Manager

Location: Parramatta CBD and flexible work arrangements offered

Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time – 35 hours per week

Salary: Up to $168,130 a. plus superannuation and annual leave loading.

Your role

In our Employee Relations team, you'll be at the forefront of handling a wide range of issues—from providing expert advice on complex ER matters and negotiating with unions, to representing DCJ at employment tribunals.

As a key leader reporting to the Director, you'll guide a talented team, partnering with various DCJ business areas to navigate sensitive employee relations issues. Your expert advice and strategic solutions will directly contribute to the agency’s success, ensuring optimal outcomes in resolving employee relations matters.

What you’ll do

• Lead initiatives to drive employee relations strategy, workplace reform, and workforce capability building.
• Represent DCJ in industrial tribunals, safeguarding the organization’s compliance with policy and legislation.
• Partner with HR teams to design and implement policies, ensuring seamless, client-focused HR services.
• Provide expert advice on complex issues and foster positive relationships with employees and senior leaders to enhance engagement.
• Manage industrial consultation frameworks, ensuring effective communication and collaboration across the organization.
• Negotiate with unions to resolve disputes and achieve fair, practical employment conditions.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team, ensuring excellence in service delivery and continuous professional growth.

What we’re looking for
 

• Qualifications in Industrial Relations, HR Management, Law or other related qualifications and extensive practical experience in industrial relations matters
• Highly developed knowledge of employment legislation and ability to conduct legal research.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Solid understanding of the current Industrial Relations framework
• Experience as an industrial relations advocate proven ability to negotiate on complex industrial relations matters.

Download the role description.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

While the Department of Communities and Justice offers a flexible or hybrid working arrangement some office work will be required and therefore to be considered for this role you would need to live in NSW or be relocating to NSW.

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We do work that really matters.

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia’s top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment!

Are you ready to join us?

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

Applications close Tuesday 11th February 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Allisar Katrib on 0439 958 131 or at allisar.katrib@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you’ve got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Alyxandra Highland via email: Alyxandra.Highland@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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