Senior Workplace Relations Counsel | Strategic IR Leader

UnitingCare Queensland; Queensland; Sur place; AUD 180 000 - 270 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging

Employee discounts

Parental leave

Diversity leave

Résumé du poste

UnitingCare Queensland is seeking an experienced Special Counsel – Workplace Relations to act as the key authority on complex workforce relations matters across the organisation.

You will provide authoritative employment and industrial relations legal advice, shape industrial strategy, and lead the management of the most complex workforce relations matters, reporting to the General Manager, Workforce Strategy and partnering with People and Culture leaders.

Qualifications

• Admitted as a legal practitioner in Australia with a current practising certificate.
• Extensive post-admission experience in employment and industrial relations law.
• Experience representing organisations in tribunals and commissions.
• Proven strategic legal advice to senior executives and influencing organisational outcomes.
• Mentoring and developing workforce relations professionals.

Responsabilités

• Act as the primary escalation point for the most complex, high-risk and high-impact employee and industrial relations matters.
• Lead legal strategy for critical workforce relations cases, including unfair dismissal, general protections, discrimination, adverse action and complex industrial disputes.
• Represent the organisation in conciliation, mediation and hearings before the Fair Work Commission and other relevant jurisdictions for sensitive or precedent-setting matters.
• Determine when matters require external legal counsel and manage briefing, strategy and oversight to ensure quality and value.
• Provide authoritative enterprise-level legal advice on employment and industrial relations legislation, Modern Awards, enterprise agreements, employment contracts and workforce-related regulatory obligations.
• Advise on complex workforce change initiatives, restructures and large-scale transformation programs.
• Identify emerging legal and industrial risks and proactively develop mitigation strategies in partnership with People and Culture and senior leaders.
• Provide professional leadership and technical oversight of the workforce relations legal practice, including mentoring, peer review and capability uplift.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and represent the organisation externally with regulators, tribunals, unions and professional bodies at a senior level.
• Lead continuous improvement in workforce relations legal processes, governance frameworks and reporting.

Connaissances

Strategic advisory

Industrial relations

Legal leadership

Mentoring

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder management

Formation

Australian legal qualification

Outils

Microsoft Office

Description du poste

UnitingCare Queensland is seeking an experienced Special Counsel – Workplace Relations to act as the key authority on complex workforce relations matters across the organisation.

You will provide authoritative employment and industrial relations legal advice, shape industrial strategy, and lead the management of the most complex workforce relations matters, reporting to the General Manager, Workforce Strategy and partnering with People and Culture leaders.