HR Advisor (9 month contract)

Orange Sky; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal & Wellbeing Leave

Flexible Public Holidays

Volunteer-friendly environment

Dog-friendly office

Wellbeing programs

Professional development funding

Job summary

Orange Sky is seeking an HR Advisor to foster an inclusive, high-performing culture and support people management across our team. This 9-month fixed-term contract focuses on core HR operations and employee relations, with opportunities to influence policy and practices.

You will work to empower leaders, manage workplace wellbeing, and deliver leadership development content for employees and volunteers, within a flexible, mission-driven nonprofit setting.

Responsibilities

• Elevate Employee Experience: guide leaders through HR activities that empower our people to thrive.
• Streamline HR Policy & Processes: optimise our policies, processes and cyclical activities to keep us running smoothly.
• Support Workplace Performance & Wellbeing: offer guidance on people matters and ensure practices align with legislation and internal policies.
• Inspire Through Facilitation: create and deliver content that builds leadership skills and shares essential knowledge for employees and volunteers.

Job description

The Role

As a HR Advisor at Orange Sky, you’ll be a key player in fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture, supporting our team on people management matters whilst driving core HR operations. This is a 9 month fixed-term contract.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell)

• Elevate Employee Experience: Guide leaders through HR activities that empower our people to thrive.
• Streamline HR Policy & Processes: Optimise our policies, processes and cyclical activities to keep us running smoothly.
• Support Workplace Performance & Wellbeing: Offer guidance on people matters and help ensure our workplace practices align with relevant legislation and internal policies.
• Inspire Through Facilitation: Create and deliver content that builds leadership skills and shares essential knowledge for employees and volunteers.

What you bring to the table

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant HR experience (ideally within a fast-paced environment), alongside relevant tertiary or industry qualifications in HR.
• Experience in the not-for-profit sector and working with a distributed volunteer workforce is highly desirable but not essential.
• Exceptional interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships and influencing across diverse teams.
• Direct hands-on experience handling employee relations matters.
• Ability to proactively problem-solve to overcome operational challenges, drive positive organisational improvements, and effectively mediate workplace disputes and grievances.
• A proactive, curious and improvement-focused mindset paired with a genuine, authentic commitment to Orange Sky's mission and values.

Why Join Orange Sky?

At Orange Sky, we want every person to be "Better for Being Orange" that includes our volunteers, friends, supporters, and employees. Joining our team means working alongside a passionate, high-performing group of people dedicated to our mission of Positively Connecting Communities.

We offer an inclusive, modern, and flexible environment where your well-being, life circumstances, and personal growth are genuinely supported through our industry-leading benefits, including:

• Personal & Wellbeing Leave: Wide coverage of leave incorporating reproductive health, mental health, and extended personal care.
• Cultural & Flexible Public Holidays: Option to substitute public holidays for another day that works best for you as well as the ability to swap a cultural or religious public holiday for observance of a day that is more in line with your beliefs.
• Inclusive Compassionate Leave: Includes close family members, family friends, pregnancy-related loss, and pets.
• Community Services Leave: Paid leave for emergency response volunteering and full support for jury duty.
• Annual Leave Flexibility: Options to cash out leave or convert interrupted annual leave to personal/compassionate leave.
• Competitive Remuneration & Perks: Attractive base salary plus non-profit salary packaging (up to $15,900 tax-free per year); paid-out rewards scheme; travel allowance; Orange Sky public holiday and additional gifted leave for high performance.
• Culture, Flexibility & Balance: Flexible working arrangements and dog-friendly offices - bring your furry best mate to work!
• Health & Wellbeing Support: Fitness Passport (discounted gym memberships) for you and your family; dedicated wellness initiatives; and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Growth & Development: Personal and professional growth pathways (My Career Pathway) with dedicated professional development funding.
• Recognised Diversity Leader: Orange Sky Australia is proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia (DCA).
• Purpose: The warm fuzzies that come from doing work that truly matters every single day.

We are committed to facilitating a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, we welcome you to let us know so we can work with you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a standard background and criminal record check prior to commencement that will be assessed on case by case basis.