Human Resources Business Partner

Monash University; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 124,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Monash University is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner on a 12‑month fixed-term contract to support academic and professional divisions. The role focuses on coaching, advisory capability, and organisational design in a complex, matrix environment.

The position sits in a high-performing HR team, supports transformation, and emphasises digital-minded process improvements and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong ability to navigate a large, complex matrix environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and consulting skills with leaders.
• Commercial acumen aligned to a values-driven culture.
• Digital mindset with interest in AI, tech optimisation and change.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR partnering and coaching to leadership across a faculty or division.
• Lead workforce planning, design, and change initiatives with cross-functional teams.
• Manage complex employee relations matters within an EA framework and support investigations.
• Drive HR projects, process improvements and adoption of digital tools.
• Collaborate with CoEs and HR colleagues to deliver consistent services.

Job description

Location: 211 Wellington Road, Mulgrave and Clayton campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 12 months fixed-term

Remuneration: $145,481 - $160,58 total remuneration package pa HEW Level 08 (inclusive of $124,343 - $137,251 base salary pa and 17% employer superannuation)

• Partner with extraordinary minds and leaders shaping tomorrow
• Join a high-performing HR Business Partnering team
• Balance ambition and well-being through flexible, tailored working options

Monash University is a global leader ranked among the world's top universities. With annual revenue exceeding $3 billion and campuses across 5 countries, Monash combines the commercial scale, operational complexity, and rigor of a major global enterprise with a deeply values-driven mission. Learn more about Monash.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a HR Business Partner on a 12-month fixed-term contract to join our HR ecosystem. Operating within a portfolio-based model supporting academic or professional divisions, this high-impact role requires strong coaching capability, alongside strategic advisory, organisational design, and industrial relations experience to navigate complex environments and transformation.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnering & Advising: Serve as a trusted HR partner, advisor and coach to leadership teams across an assigned faculty, division, or school. Provide high-level consulting, practical guidance, and tailored HR solutions to navigate complex workforce dynamics and support organisational objectives.
• Workforce Planning & Change Delivery: Partner with leadership to support organisational design, succession planning, and change management initiatives. Play a key role in strategic workforce planning, analysing workforce data to identify talent needs, mitigate pipeline risks, and build an agile workforce responsive to shifting academic or operational priorities.
• Complex Employee Relations & EA Application: Manage complex employee and industrial relations matters and undertake workplace investigations within an Enterprise Agreement (EA) environment. Collaborate with specialised ER teams and leaders to interpret policy and legislation, manage risk, and foster constructive workplace relations.
• HR Projects & Continuous Improvement: Contribute to broader HR and university-wide transformation projects and continuous improvement initiatives. Incorporate external research, industry benchmarks, and progressive HR insights to elevate HR service delivery.
• Innovation & Digital Mindset: Champion process optimisation and the adoption of digital tools (including AI) to streamline HR practices, challenge legacy approaches, and drive operational excellence.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: Work collaboratively with Monash HR colleagues, and Centers of Excellence (CoE) to deliver seamless, consistent HR services. Support and share knowledge with peers to build collective capability across the HR function.

What we are looking for:

• Matrix Savvy & Systemic Thinker: Strong ability to navigate and partner within a large, complex matrix environment operating across Shared Services and Centers of Excellence
• Executive Presence & Coaching Mindset: Excellent interpersonal and consulting skills with the proven ability to build strong strategic relationships, influence outcomes, and provide sound coaching to client leaders
• Commercially Minded & Purpose-Led: Sharp business acumen balanced with an unwavering alignment to a values-driven, purpose-led culture.
• Digital Curiosity & Innovation: A forward-thinking, adaptable mindset with genuine enthusiasm for leveraging AI, tech optimisation, and creative problem-solving.
• Industrial & ER Expertise: Sound judgment and confidence navigating Enterprise Agreements, complex ER matters in unionised environments.
• Analytical & Evidence-Based: Strong data instincts with the natural ability to turn complex workforce metrics into clear, compelling strategic narratives.
• Collaborative leader: A genuine commitment to supporting and developing junior peers, sharing knowledge, and elevating overall team capability.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something groundbreaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed

Be part of our story. Work with us to #ChangeIt.

Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at **************@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

Applications Close: Thursday 29 October 2026, 11:55PM AEDT

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Monash University recognises that its Australian campuses are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Kulin nations, and pays its respects to their elders, past and present.