Senior Advisor, Employee Relations

About this role

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Employee Relations, the Senior Human Resources Advisor, Employee Relations plays a key role in providing support and expert advice on a range of complex human resources (HR) related matters including performance and conduct, enterprise bargaining, reviews of employment related actions, employment entitlements and conditions, and policy review and development. The role is also responsible for fostering a high-performance culture across the AER by supporting career and professional development planning for individuals. • Support the AER with workplace change, including establishing the HR capability, functions and services required of the Employee Relations team post-legal separation. • Assisting with the enterprise bargaining process, including supporting claims development, drafting of a new agreement, and all other tasks required to support this process. • Provide high-level advice and case management of employee relations matters, including highly sensitive and complex matters. This includes supporting managers with informal and formal performance management, as well as supporting preliminary assessments and formal investigations. • Partner with the AER Capability team and AER managers to identify and deliver on opportunities to support individual employees’ professional development. • Provide expert advice to the AER on interpreting and applying the Enterprise Agreement and HR related legislation. • Develop managers capabilities and organisational understanding of employee relations and performance policies, practices and procedures across the organisation. • Review, develop and maintain people policies, industrial instruments and procedures to support the Enterprise Agreement and the AER. • Undertake the Secretariat function for the AER’s Employee Council. • Support the delivery of allocated projects and activities as required. • Contribute to a strong values-based AER community by fostering the AER archetypes.