• Flexible location (Melbourne Burwood or Geelong Campuses) + hybrid work arrangements
• Multiple positions available: 2 x Full time and continuing, 1 x Full time, Fixed term (6 months)
• HEW 10 $142,074 + 17% Superannuation

Why work with us?

At Deakin you will have access to benefits such as a variety of leave options including generous parental leave and the ability to purchase additional leave; flexible working arrangements to help manage your work-life balance; ongoing learning and development opportunities to grow your career; an inclusive and supportive culture and environment to work in, both online and on campus.

Who are we?

Deakin is a cutting-edge public university in Victoria, revolutionising education with 61,000 students across seven campuses: Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waurn Ponds, Geelong Waterfront, Warrnambool, Deakin University Lancaster University Indonesia (DLI), GIFT City, India and our dynamic online Campus. We're proud to be a progressive and open-minded university, delivering the highest student satisfaction in Victoria and consistently ranked in the top 1% of the world's universities.

About the role:

As The Senior People and Culture Partner, you will ensure effective partnerships with Deakin’s leaders and teams to facilitate contemporary people solutions. Empowered to make decisions, informed by frameworks and governance practices, you will provide expert advice, consultancy and brokering a range of people and culture initiatives, services, strategies and projects.

You are agile, responsive and customer-centric in your approach to people solutions, accountable for the delivery of dynamic workforce plans, talent management, organisational change and sustainable people solutions.

As a Senior People and Culture Partner, you will:

• Act as trusted advisor and partner with executives and senior leaders, building leadership capability through coaching, providing expert and responsive advice on high impact issues, and embedding people frameworks and tools within business cycles
• Champion Deakin’s People Strategy, across the focus areas of Inspiring Leaders, Capable People, Engaged Teams and Sustainable Design
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with people functions and other enabling teams to co-deliver for the business, identifying and contributing to improvements in service offerings and being an ambassador for the University Services Portfolio
• Partner effectively with other people functions on collaborative ways of working, process improvements, and enhancing connection
• Provide visible leadership across the people functions, contributing to divisional projects, enhancements and presentations, formal and informal teaching and mentoring of broader team members and driving the continuing maturity of the operating model
• Play a key role in facilitating change processes across local and larger scale change and change implementation to ensure strong outcomes are delivered for the University through its people, using contemporary change management and organisational design methodologies
• Ensure solutions are compliant with legislation, the University’s Enterprise Agreement and University policies and procedures and that advice to customers and influence of customer decisions ultimately serves the greatest need and interest of the University
• Motivate and influence leaders across Deakin to create an environment where staff feel valued, included and want to do their best to achieve University priorities

To be successful, you’ll have:

• Proven expertise in developing and maintaining senior stakeholder relationships
• Postgraduate qualifications and extensive relevant experience, or equivalent experience ⋅ Experience providing high level and complex HR advice and services to senior leaders through the establishment of meaningful partnerships
• Experience facilitating customers through robust HR practices to enable strategic thinking and solutions for the future
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Demonstrated experience in managing change and driving organizational initiatives.

Here's how to apply: 

Please submit your updated resume and a short cover letter outlining your skills and experience.  

For a confidential discussion regarding this role, please contact Cara Luzza (Head of Faculty Partnering) on c.luzza@deakin.edu.au / David Onton (Head of Portfolio Partnering) on david.onton@deakin.edu.au 

For a copy of the position description, please see below:

 Position Description - Senior People and Culture Partner

Applications for this position close on Sunday, February 2nd 2025.

Are You Ready?

Deakin is a Victorian university with a global impact. We are an agile, dynamic, and innovative university committed to making a positive impact through our excellence in education, research and innovation and the contributions we make to the wider community.

We understand that our reputation has been built on the dedication and expertise of our staff and we offer a dynamic and diverse working environment with opportunities to grow and develop careers. We believe that a progressive, thriving culture will ensure that people choose to come, and stay at Deakin and contribute to our ongoing success.

We value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences. We support and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientation, and genders.