HR Consultant - Not your usual HR gig!

HR Staff n' Stuff; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Flexible work from home

Chocolate & cheese

Job summary

HR Staff n' Stuff in Melbourne is seeking an HR Professional to provide practical, down-to-earth HR support to a range of private clients (15–100 staff). You will work embedded at client premises and also from home, applying hands-on people management experience and solid HR/IR knowledge.

The role is varied and rewarding: manage teams, advise on HR/IR matters, contribute to recruitment projects, and create customised HR documents.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing teams (not HR teams) and understanding people and operational issues in businesses.
• Excellent HR skills and some IR knowledge.
• Creative ideas and practical, direct advice.

Responsibilities

• Embedded HR Advisor at client premises.
• Provide HR and IR advice via phone, email and face-to-face.
• Lead recruitment projects for clients.
• Create customised HR documents (contracts, position descriptions, policies, letters, performance improvement plans).

Skills

People management

HR knowledge

IR knowledge

Communication skills

Job description

Not looking to start immediately? Perfect, let's talk, then take a well-earned end of year break and join us in January 2027!

Do you have excellentpeople management experience as well as excellent HR / IR skills and knowledge?

We are an established HR Consulting business with a difference. We provide our clients with practical, down to earth HR support and advice and they love our approach. Celebrating 18years this year, clients keep coming and we keep growing!

We are seeking a really special person to join our small (but fun, friendly and totally awesome) team as an HR Professional. We are not looking for atypical HR person– we are seeking someone who has experience managing people & results in a business unit (not HR) and who also has asolid level of HR/IR knowledge. Our clients love us because we’ve had the same experiences they are having; we’ve had to have the difficult conversations, we’ve had to deal with issues ourselves and now we share our experience and knowledge with them AND we understand business!

Our clients are mostly private small and medium business (15-100 staff) and are generally not corporate. This means that every day is different, and this is quite possibly one of the most rewarding, interesting and challenging HRroles you could hope for! While our office is based in Notting Hillwe have clients all over Melbourne and you will be working at their premises as well as some times in our office and working from home.

The type of stuff you’ll be doing includes:

Working at a range of client’s premises as an embedded HR Advisor

Providing HR and IR advice to our clients via phone, email and face to face

Working on recruitment projects for our clients

Creating a range of customised HR documents for clients as required including contracts, position descriptions, policies, letters, performance improvement plans etc.

In order for us to think you could be the perfect fit, you will demonstrate:

Hands-on experience managing teams of people (not HR teams) and understand the people and operational issues that businesses face

Excellent HR skills and some IR knowledge

Creative ideas and think outside the box when providing advice

A down to earth, practical and direct nature with great influencing skills

A strong work ethic and ability to think on your feet

Exceptional communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills

A current driver’s license and reliable car

A desire to be part of a totally awesome, welcoming and supportive team

You might be wondering what’s in it for you:

A friendly and positive work environment with a team who cares about our clients and about you

Varied and exciting role where each day is different, and be exposed to a really broad range of issues

The ability to work with all different clients in a range of interesting industries

A dog friendly office

Loads of chocolate and cheese – take your pick (winetoo...)

Ability to work from home and lots of flexibility