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• Employment Type: Full time (35 hours per week) 
• Duration: Fixed-term 12 + 24-month contracts
• Remuneration: From $127k-149k + 17% Superannuation & leave loading
• Location: Kensington, NSW (Hybrid Working). 

About UNSW: 
UNSW isn’t like other places you’ve worked. Yes, we’re a large organisation with a diverse and talented community; a community doing extraordinary things. Together, we are driven to be thoughtful, practical, and purposeful in all we do. Taking this combined approach is what makes our work matter. 

About the People & Culture Business Partnering (P&C BP) Team: Delivering both operational and strategic human resources services, the P&C BP Team manage people matters with confidence, care, and consistency. Partnering with their people leaders to achieve their people strategy and further meaningful work we do at UNSW as a leader in teaching and research. 

Why Your Role Matters:
As a People Partner, you will be a trusted advisor to leaders, driving strategic people initiatives and enhancing the employee experience across your designated client group. Partnering with stakeholders, your role strengthens leadership capabilities, supports organisational change, and embeds contemporary people practices that enable high performance and engagement.

With a strong background in HR business partnering, you will build trusted relationships with stakeholders and deliver informed, solutions‑focused guidance across workplace and employee relations. Through your ability to influence, coach and build strong relationships, you will navigate complex workforce challenges and deliver meaningful people outcomes across our diverse workforce, passionate about the work they do here at UNSW.

In this people‑centred role, embedded within your faculty, you'll build localised knowledge to expertly advise on complex people issues, supporting organisational initiatives, and enable an engaged workplace culture.
Your day-to-day includes:

• Proactively partnering with clients to provide effective P&C solutions, no two days are the same.  
• Leveraging your expertise across the full employee lifecycle to provide proactive, high-quality advice on a broad range of people matters, ensuring fair, consistent and effective outcomes
• Managing employee relation matters conduct concerns, performance, redundancies, medical incapacity and grievances.
• Implementing P&C policies and procedures and improvements as an expert in your field.
• Overseeing workforce planning including recruitment, internal mobility and managing workplace change.
• Providing effective P&C workforce reporting and analysis to support informed decision making by leaders.
• Supporting and mentoring our Advisors and Officers for a collaborative P&C team.

Reporting into the Senior People Partner for your Faculty/Division, this role is supported by a dedicated People Advisor as well Officers in the People Experience Team. You'll be joining a close-knit team, furthering your career in a supportive environment which focuses on learning, progression and excellence. 

Who You Are: We're looking for a senior HR professional with experience across a similar role in a complex and client-centred environment; a strategically minded Consultant looking for their next partnering role, holding the following skills and experience: 

• Proven-track record in a Partnering role, independently managing a diverse client group, including senior leaders.
• Strong working knowledge of HR policies, procedures, and enterprise agreements, with demonstrated experience in applying these autonomously to resolve complex people matters.  
• Proven ability to manage employee relations and casework with professionalism, discretion, and sound judgement.  
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels.  
• Demonstrated capability to deliver timely, practical HR advice in a dynamic and complex environment.  
• Experience supporting junior P&C staff, contributing to a collaborative and high-performing team culture.  
• Ability to interpret and apply people data and insights to inform decision-making and continuous improvement.  
• A proactive, solutions-focused mindset with flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and contexts.  

Benefits and Culture: At UNSW, the work you do has a ripple effect far beyond your immediate role. Here, you can put your skills to the service of something bigger, something meaningful. We offer:  

• Flexible hours and the opportunity to work from home regularly.  
• Discounts & entitlements including on UNSW courses. 
• Flexible 17% Superannuation and Leave Loading  
• Additional 3 days leave over the December break. 
• Wellbeing programs and initiatives, such as recharge week and health checks.  

You can learn more about our Benefits and Culture at Lifestyle & Benefits | Jobs@UNSW  

How to Apply: 
Make each day matter with a meaningful career at UNSW. Submit your application online including: 
- A CV 
- Cover letter (up to one-page detailing your suitability and interest in the role). 
We will be in touch as we progress through applications. 
Please note applicants must have working rights in Australia and be able to be on site in Kensington regularly.  
 
Get in Touch: For queries on the recruitment process, please contact Katherine Molloy: katherine.molloy@unsw.edu.au   
Please note applications sent directly to the contacts above cannot be accepted.   

Pre-Employment Checks

Aligned with UNSW’s focus on cultivating a workplace defined by safety, ethical conduct, and strong integrity preferred candidates will be required to participate in a combination of pre-employment checks relevant to the role they have applied for.

These pre-employment checks may include a combination of some of the following checks:-

• National and International Criminal history checks
• Entitlement to work and ID checks
• Working With Children Checks
• Completion of a Gender-Based Violence Prevention Declaration
• Verification of relevant qualifications
• Verification of relevant professional membership
• Employment history and reference checks
• Financial responsibility assessments/checks.
• Medical Checks and Assessments

Compliance with the necessary combination of these checks is a condition of employment at UNSW.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those living with disabilities, members of the LGBTIQ+ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.