Director, Remuneration & Global Mobility
Job No.: 674711
Location: Mulgrave
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 3-year fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: A competitive remuneration package will apply.
- Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University
- Join our inclusive, collaborative and global community
- Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them
The Opportunity
The Director, Remuneration and Global Mobility is a critical leadership position within Monash HR, responsible for the strategic direction and successful operation of three key functions: Global Mobility, Remuneration, and Senior Appointments.
Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will provide expert leadership and oversight to a high-performing team, ensuring best practices across the University’s remuneration structures, employment contracts, senior appointments, and staff global mobility. You will collaborate with HR Director colleagues to drive service excellence in HR.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the strategic direction, planning, and policy development for Remuneration and Global Mobility to ensure high-quality, sustainable service delivery
- Drive continuous quality and service improvement across the portfolio and ensure plans align with current / pending external influences and changes
- Provide expert advice and leadership to senior management and key stakeholders across the University, with a focus on risk management strategies and processes
- As a member of the HR Leadership Team collaborate with the HR Director colleagues to drive HR service excellence and contribute more broadly to HR strategy and practice
- Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to enhance team capability, performance, and accountability
About You
- Post-graduate qualified in business management, human resources or another equivalent field
- Deep subject matter expertise in remuneration, superannuation, global mobility, payroll, and financial principles including governance, risk management and relevant legislative/regulatory requirements
- Proven experience leading an HR Centre of Excellence to deliver specialised services and provide expert advice and solutions to a large and diverse client base
- Highly developed numerical, conceptual and analytical skills, including the ability to identify emerging issues, trends and risks, evaluate potential impacts and interpret complex legislation, legal documents and taxation rulings
- Excellent consultative, verbal communication and interpersonal skills as well as written and presentation skills with a demonstrated capacity to formulate practical policy options, program strategies and develop viable business cases to negotiate their successful progress through approval and funding processes
- Experience contributing at the HR leadership level including leading change and improvement initiatives and role modelling Monash values of integrity, collaboration, innovation and excellence
- Expertise in supporting others to achieve excellence, developing high-performing teams, setting clear direction, providing discipline-specific guidance and fostering a diverse, inclusive and cooperative working environment
- Ability to navigate complex, dynamic and changing environments, embrace change, demonstrate sound decision-making
- Awareness of the higher education sector, university governance structures/ policies, global context and factors influencing institutional success
What we Offer:
- You’ll be working for one of the world's top universities, with a truly values-driven strategy
- Dynamic and collaborative HR Leadership Team with diverse and challenging work, broadening your skills and expertise
- Flexible hybrid working arrangements
About Monash University
At Monash, work feels different. There’s a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground-breaking – a place where great things happen.
We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That’s why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.
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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.
To Apply
To apply, submit your CV along with a detailed cover letter and a document addressing the Key Selection Criteria contained within the attached Position Description. For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'.
Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr-recruitment@monash.edu in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
Enquiries: Tiffany Tzatzakis, Senior Recruitment Consultant, tiffany.tzatzakis@monash.edu
Position Description: Director, Remuneration and Global Mobility
Applications Close: Sunday 2 March 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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