People and Performance Partner

Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children; Paraparaumu; Hybrid; NZD 106,000 - 118,000; Full time

Job summary

Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children in New Zealand seeks a skilled HR professional to partner with leaders across business groups, providing high-quality, pragmatic HR advice, coaching, and support across the employee lifecycle. You will work in a complex environment and build strong relationships to enable great people outcomes.

As part of a team evolving to shape its future, you will contribute to workforce planning, culture and engagement development, performance, and capability

Qualifications

• Experience as an HR generalist partnering with leaders and teams.
• Strong knowledge of NZ employment law and HR practices.
• Ability to deliver pragmatic HR advice and coaching.
• Cross-cultural awareness, especially tikanga Māori and Pacific peoples.
• Effective messaging to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, pragmatic HR advice and support across the employee lifecycle.
• Coach and partner with leaders to enable workforce planning and change initiatives.
• Develop culture and engagement initiatives and support organisational change.
• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders to drive great people outcomes.

Skills

HR generalist

Relationship building

Coaching & advisory

Cross-cultural awareness

Policy interpretation

Job description

• Build trusted partnerships. Drive positive change
• Flexible and supportive

Build strong partnerships with leaders, influence meaningful people outcomes, and help teams thrive. With flexible hybrid working and a supportive team environment, you'll enjoy genuine flexibility, great team support, and plenty of opportunity to grow.

Oranga Tamariki—Ministry for Children has a commitment to putting tamariki and rangatahi at the heart of what we do. In our work, we aim to demonstrate these values:

• We put Tamariki first
• We believe Aroha is vital
• We respect the Mana of people
• We are Tika and Pono
• We value Whakapapa
• We recognise that Oranga Tamariki partners with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions for tamariki in need.

We are committed to ensuring that New Zealand is the best place in the world to be a child.

We are also committed to ensuring Oranga Tamariki partners with hapū, iwi and Māori organisations to find appropriate solutions for tamariki in need.

Mō te tūnga | About the role

Come and join our dynamic People and High Performance team in a role where you can make a real difference for leaders and kaimahi we support. As a trusted partner, you will work closely with leaders across your supported business groups, providing high-quality, pragmatic, and best-practice advice, coaching, and support across all aspects of the employee lifecycle.

Working in a complex, high-pace, and evolving environment, you will build strong relationships and collaborate with leaders, colleagues, and key stakeholders to enable great people outcomes. You will contribute to workforce planning and establishment management, culture and engagement development, performance, and capability initiatives, and support the delivery of organisational change.

As part of a team that is continuing to evolve and shape its future, you will have the opportunity to bring ideas, challenge thinking, and help improve the way we work. Your generalist HR expertise, collaborative style, and ability to influence and partner effectively will be key to helping us build a trusted, responsive, and high-performing People and High Performance function.

You will be an efficient and effective HR Professional that builds relationships with key stakeholders and provide pragmatic HR advice and support. Experience in providing positive, resilient, practical trusted partnering along with a healthy sense of humour.

Some other key requirements of the role include but not limited to:

• Understand HR best practice, process and policies
• Working knowledge of current NZ employment law and HR practices
• Ability to deliver clear messaging to different audiences
• Understanding and appreciation of cross-cultural practices in particular; knowledge of tikanga Māori, and Pacific peoples' culture.

Nōu te rourou | What's in it for you

Oranga Tamariki offer a step based remuneration package, that offers progression annually for experience through tenure. Annual remuneration for this position starts between $106,416 and $117,782 dependant on experience. We offer a vibrant and supportive team, flexible work options and a genuine commitment to wellbeing. We offer significant training and professional development so that you can thrive and grow.

We welcome diversity and are committed to working in an inclusive and respectful way.

To see all the benefits of working for Oranga Tamariki, please visit https://mahi.orangatamariki.govt.nz/working-with-us/employee-benefits/