People Partner

Beyond Recruitment - NZ’s best career opportunities – jobs all over Aotearoa; Auckland; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond Recruitment in New Zealand seeks an experienced HR Advisor to deliver practical, people-focused support across the full employee lifecycle. You will partner with leaders to advise with detail, ensuring core people processes run smoothly, accurately, and on time.

This hands-on generalist role covers recruitment, onboarding, records, HR documentation, and timely reporting. You’ll engage in culture initiatives, safety, performance, training, and capability development across multiple

Qualifications

• Proven experience in an HR advisory or similar role with a genuine interest in stepping up into a broader generalist position.
• HR operations and administration capability.
• Confidence producing accurate documentation, maintaining records, and meeting deadlines.
• Strong HRIS capability (comfortable troubleshooting, improving workflows, and training others).
• Solid understanding of compliance obligations (employment, immigration, health & safety) and a commitment to best practice.
• Clear communication and the ability to build trusted relationships with leaders and employees.

Responsibilities

• HR administration & employee lifecycle support: respond to HR queries, process employee movements, maintain accurate employee files and HRIS records, and support smooth offboarding (including exit interviews and reporting).
• Recruitment & onboarding coordination: take ownership of end-to-end recruitment – writing position descriptions, job ads, offers, contracts and onboarding,
• HRIS super user & reporting: act as first point of contact for HRIS updates and issues, liaise with the provider as needed, and produce accurate monthly people reporting with insights and trend analysis.
• Culture, Engagement & Inclusion: working closely with the Social Committee to engage with staff through regular events, bringing Future Skills values to life. This includes some team building activities.
• Health, safety & wellbeing support: an active member of the H&S committee, promoting a positive safety and wellbeing culture.
• Performance Management: champion performance review cycle and support a high-performance culture.
• Talent, Learning & Capability Development: work with leaders to identify training and development needs; coordinate the annual training plan.
• People Initiatives & Projects: working with P&C team to develop people initiatives to boost engagement, wellbeing and retention.

Skills

HR advisory experience

HR operations

Documentation & records

HRIS capability

Compliance knowledge

Communication & relationships

Tools

HRIS

Job description

A great opportunity for an experienced HR Advisor!

We’re looking for a proactive People Partner to help deliver practical, people-focused support across the full employee lifecycle. Working closely with leaders across the Institution, you’ll be a trusted advisor who also loves the detail—keeping our core people processes running smoothly, accurately, and on time.

About the role

This is a hands-on generalist position with a strong administrative and operational backbone. You’ll coordinate recruitment and onboarding activity, maintain high-quality employee records, manage key HR documentation, and deliver timely reporting—ensuring our people activities are compliant, consistent, and continuously improving.
Every day is different – one day you will be supporting a leader in an interview, the next, you’re helping refine an onboarding process or organising a team event. Adaptability is key!

What you will do

• HR administration & employee lifecycle support: respond to HR queries, process employee movements, maintain accurate employee files and HRIS records, and support smooth offboarding (including exit interviews and reporting).
• Recruitment & onboarding coordination: take ownership of end-to-end recruitment – writing position descriptions, job ads, offers, contracts and onboarding,
• HRIS super user & reporting: act as first point of contact for HRIS updates and issues, liaise with the provider as needed, and produce accurate monthly people reporting with insights and trend analysis.
• Culture, Engagement & Inclusion: working closely with the Social Committee to engage with staff through regular events, bringing Future Skills values to life. This includes some team building activities.
• Health, safety & wellbeing support: an active member of the H&S committee, promoting a positive safety and wellbeing culture.
• Performance Management: champion performance review cycle and support a high-performance culture.
• Talent, Learning & Capability Development: work with leaders to identify training and development needs; coordinate the annual training plan.
• People Initiatives & Projects: working with P&C team to develop people initiatives to boost engagement, wellbeing and retention.

A great opportunity for an experienced HR Advisor!

We’re looking for a proactive People Partner to help deliver practical, people-focused support across the full employee lifecycle. Working closely with leaders across the Institution, you’ll be a trusted advisor who also loves the detail—keeping our core people processes running smoothly, accurately, and on time.

About the role

This is a hands-on generalist position with a strong administrative and operational backbone. You’ll coordinate recruitment and onboarding activity, maintain high-quality employee records, manage key HR documentation, and deliver timely reporting—ensuring our people activities are compliant, consistent, and continuously improving.
Every day is different – one day you will be supporting a leader in an interview, the next, you’re helping refine an onboarding process or organising a team event. Adaptability is key!

What you will do

• HR administration & employee lifecycle support: respond to HR queries, process employee movements, maintain accurate employee files and HRIS records, and support smooth offboarding (including exit interviews and reporting).
• Recruitment & onboarding coordination: take ownership of end-to-end recruitment – writing position descriptions, job ads, offers, contracts and onboarding,
• HRIS super user & reporting: act as first point of contact for HRIS updates and issues, liaise with the provider as needed, and produce accurate monthly people reporting with insights and trend analysis.
• Culture, Engagement & Inclusion: working closely with the Social Committee to engage with staff through regular events, bringing Future Skills values to life. This includes some team building activities.
• Health, safety & wellbeing support: an active member of the H&S committee, promoting a positive safety and wellbeing culture.
• Performance Management: champion performance review cycle and support a high-performance culture.
• Talent, Learning & Capability Development: work with leaders to identify training and development needs; coordinate the annual training plan.
• People Initiatives & Projects: working with P&C team to develop people initiatives to boost engagement, wellbeing and retention.

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience in an HR advisory or similar role with a genuine interest in stepping up into a broader generalist position
• HR operations and administration capability.
• Confidence producing accurate documentation, maintaining records, and meeting deadlines.
• Strong HRIS capability (comfortable troubleshooting, improving workflows, and training others).
• Solid understanding of compliance obligations (employment, immigration, health & safety) and a commitment to best practice.
• Clear communication and the ability to build trusted relationships with leaders and employees.

Why join us?

• A role with genuine ownership across HR operations, advisory and initiatives supported by a small and collaborative People & Culture tea.
• We are open to contractors as well as those seeking a permanent role.

This position is a full-time permanent role primarily based at our Auckland Manukau Campus. However, there will be a requirement to travel to our other campuses across Auckland as required.

For more details, please contact Amanda Davies 02• ••• •835

Note: To be eligible to apply for this role, you need to reside in New Zealand, have working rights for New Zealand and have a minimum of 4 years New Zealand HR experience.