Senior People Partner

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water; Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 133,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is seeking Senior People Partners for multiple 12- to 24-month temporary vacancies in Parramatta. The roles involve strategic HR advice, workforce solutions, and complex case management, with a hybrid work arrangement supported.

You will partner with leaders to tackle workforce challenges, drive change, and connect people decisions with business priorities, using generalist or specialist HR expertise to deliver practical outcomes.

Qualifications

• High-level HR generalist knowledge and experience
• Experience delivering client-focused HR strategies and services
• Experience using HRMIS systems and processes

Responsibilities

• People partnering: build trusted relationships, provide clear advice and work through people and workforce matters with leaders.
• Change management: translate change into clear plans, meaningful consultation and practical implementation.
• Organisational design: shape structures that connect priorities with how teams work and deliver.
• Role evaluation and design: define responsibilities, develop role descriptions and support robust evaluation across the organisation.

Skills

People partnering

Change management

Organisational design

Role evaluation and design

Tools

HRMIS

Job description

Do you want your work to make a difference for NSW? Working to protect the state's environment and heritage.

• Join our growing People Partnering team and help shape our future
• Multiple temporary vacancies for 12-24 months - Parramatta based, hybrid working supported
• Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $133,348.00 to $146,945.00 + super

Our People Partnering team is growing, and we’re looking for Senior People Partners who want to be part of that next chapter. With multiple temporary opportunities for 12-24 months, this is your chance to bring your experience, ideas and energy to work that matters. You’ll partner with leaders to tackle workforce challenges, providing expert strategic and technical HR advice that connects people decisions with business priorities. Working with colleagues across People and Culture, you’ll develop practical workforce solutions, support change from planning through implementation, and manage complex cases and redeployment matters in line with policy and legislation. Along the way, you’ll help improve how we deliver our services - and shape how our growing team partners with the business. Bring your generalist experience - or the specialist expertise that sets you apart. Alongside experienced generalist people partners, we’re keen to hear from people with strengths in change management, organisational design, and role evaluation and design. You don’t need to cover every speciality. We’re building a team with complementary strengths, and we want to know what you could bring.

• People partnering: build trusted relationships, provide clear advice and work through people and workforce matters with leaders.
• Change management: help translate change into clear plans, meaningful consultation and practical implementation.
• Organisational design: help shape structures that connect organisational priorities with how teams work and deliver.
• Role evaluation and design: bring clarity to responsibilities, develop role descriptions and support robust, consistent role evaluation.

About You You’re an experienced people professional who can move confidently between strategic advice and hands-on delivery. You build trusted relationships, communicate complex matters in plain English and influence decisions through credible, considered advice. You bring sound judgement, professional integrity and the confidence to work through competing priorities while keeping people and business outcomes in focus. Whether your strengths lie in broad generalist partnering or specialist change and design work, you bring a practical approach and a willingness to share what you know. You can see the bigger picture without losing sight of the people affected by a decision. Most importantly, you want to contribute - not just to the work in front of you, but to the team we’re building.

• High-level knowledge of human resources legislation, policies, practices and strategies.
• Experience implementing client-focused human resource strategies, programs and services.
• Demonstrated experience using human resources management information systems (HRMIS).

We acknowledge the ongoing custodial responsibilities of the Aboriginal peoples of NSW to care for Country and water and are committed to establishing meaningful partnerships with Aboriginal peoples in the management of the environment.

Who we are The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) works to protect the state’s environment and heritage. It leads the way on climate change, driving the sustainable transition to a net zero economy, powered by affordable, reliable, and clean energy. DCCEEW conserves and protects the state’s natural environment. It manages the NSW national park estate, including its rich and diverse biodiversity and Aboriginal cultural heritage for future generations. DCCEEW also ensures sustainable management of water resources across the state, to support the environment, communities and industry.

Should you require further information about the role please contact Catie Khan via [e-mail] or on 0436 680 097.

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

Our goal is to build a workforce that not only represents but also understands and serves the diverse communities of New South Wales. We are committed to making our state a vibrant and inclusive place to live, work, and thrive for everyone. Our workforce represents people of all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, the LGBTQI+ community, and people from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

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