People Advisor — Build a High-Impact Team from Day One

Acusensus Australia; Canberra; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Acusensus Australia seeks a People Advisor to help stand up a Canberra team. You’ll lead recruitment, onboarding, and HR processes to support a growing contract. You’ll partner with leaders to set goals, provide feedback, and coach managers through development conversations.

You’ll manage employee relations, engagement initiatives, and remuneration considerations while leveraging HR data for workforce planning. Occasional travel may be required.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in an HR or People and Culture role, with a solid HR lifecycle understanding.
• Proven HR business partnering with focus on recruitment, onboarding and performance management.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end recruitment: sourcing, interviewing and candidate management.
• Sound knowledge of Australian employment law, including the Fair Work Act.
• Ability to coach and support leaders through performance and development conversations.
• Proficient with HRIS/ATS and using HR data for decisions & reporting.
• Experience running employee engagement strategies, incl. pulse surveys.
• Knowledge of remuneration frameworks and role levelling is desirable.
• Tertiary qualifications in HR management or equivalent experience is highly regarded

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end recruitment for the new contract, from sourcing and interviewing through to offer, with a strong candidate experience at every step.
• Deliver a structured onboarding program so new team members are set up from day one and connected to our culture and values.
• Partner with people leaders on goal-setting, regular feedback and career development conversations, and coach managers to hold them with confidence.
• Guide employee relations matters, including performance management, grievances and workplace conflict, with fair process and compliance with the Fair Work Act.
• Lead engagement initiatives, including pulse surveys and feedback analysis, and turn the insights into improvement actions.
• Support remuneration and levelling work, including salary reviews and internal mobility, and use HR data to report on performance trends, engagement and workforce planning.
• Work with our HSEQ team to build safety, wellbeing and psychosocial safety into people initiatives.

Skills

End-to-end recruitment

Onboarding & training

Performance management

Employee relations

Coaching leaders

HR data reporting

Pulse surveys

Remuneration frameworks

Education

HR management degree or equivalent

Tools

HRIS and ATS

Job description

Acusensus Australia seeks a People Advisor to help stand up a Canberra team. You’ll lead recruitment, onboarding, and HR processes to support a growing contract. You’ll partner with leaders to set goals, provide feedback, and coach managers through development conversations.

You’ll manage employee relations, engagement initiatives, and remuneration considerations while leveraging HR data for workforce planning. Occasional travel may be required.