Guiding the future of NSW education

Position details

· Ongoing role, Clerk 7/8

· Close to Wynyard station with hybrid work arrangements (2 office days per week as standard – Wednesday and Thursday)

· Help shape our team’s success!

About us

At the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA), we’re dedicated to carrying out meaningful work that drives improvements and elevates student achievement across NSW, now and into the future.

We accomplish this by supporting all school sectors with high-quality syllabuses, assessment (including managing the HSC and NAPLAN), teaching standards (e.g., accrediting teachers) and school environments (including setting and monitoring school standards).

NESA is a unique organisation in NSW (of around 750 FTE staff) with significant state-wide impact, visit our website to learn more about the important work we do.

About the role

It's an exciting time to join the People and Culture function at NESA, we have been actively enhancing our delivery of core operational services and are moving into pursuing new enabling technology solutions, in addition our People and Culture team are responsible for designing and delivering an exciting agenda of strategic people priorities and workforce programs.

Joining our Recruitment team as a Recruitment Partner, you will be the central point of subject matter expert advice and support to a broad range of hiring managers and stakeholders (working in a portfolio model). This is a great opportunity to play a key role in the continuous improvement of stakeholder-focused practices, and partner with business areas to design and deliver effective talent acquisition approaches.

The Recruitment Partners have a broad range of responsibilities in an environment where they demonstrate high levels of independence and problem-solving to support, advise, provide solutions for, guide and influence stakeholders, including senior leaders.

On a day-to-day basis this role is responsible for:

· Proactive and high-touch end-to-end recruitment services and advice, including:

- role design, workforce planning, hiring briefs.

- job advertisements, advertising strategies, sourcing, managing candidate enquiries (as the primary contact).

- shortlisting, phone screens, creating candidate assessment tasks, drafting interview questions.

- advising hiring managers on selection decisions, making offers, negotiating salaries, and developing and delivering candidate feedback.

· Developing a deep understanding of NESA’s business, culture and hiring needs and applying that knowledge to the recruitment advice and services they provide to hiring managers and candidates.

· Ensuring a high level of confidentiality, tact, diplomacy and attention to detail are evident to stakeholders.

· Delivering services with a sense of urgency and ensuring recruitment service metrics are met.

· Demonstrating high levels of written and verbal communication skills to liaise with hiring managers and candidates on routine and complex matters.

· Ensuring recruitment plans and activities meet legislative requirements and appropriate record keeping is maintained.

This is a role for a highly experienced recruiter looking to develop strong partnerships with hiring managers and provide advice and services to them and candidates with a high degree of expertise, care and engagement. Our ideal candidate has internal recruitment experience in a complex environment, working effectively in a shared responsibility model with hiring managers.

Join our friendly, hardworking, collaborative team and manage interesting roles in an important organisation with a state-wide impact!

We invite you to download the role description for additional information on the role.

At NESA you'll benefit from:

· An organisation where your contribution has a big impact, and you collaborate directly with senior leaders

· An enviable CBD location (all modes of transport nearby, and excellent coffee and eateries) with refurbished offices

· Comprehensive leave entitlements that include 14 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents to special provisions for study, jury duty, and unexpected events

· Access to discounted health and fitness memberships via Fitness Passport, an employee assistance program and annual flu vaccinations

· Salary packaging options

· Working in a purpose driven and ethical organisation with committed colleagues

Ready to join us?

Select apply and attach an up-to-date résumé and a cover letter.

In addition, address the 2 targeted questions below in your online application (maximum 400 words each):

• Outline an example of a complex candidate enquiry or issue you resolved independently, what was the situation, the actions you took and the outcome?
• Provide an example of when you have provided advice to a hiring manager which balanced legislative provisions and the outcome they were seeking to achieve, what was the situation, the advice you gave and the outcome?

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Thank you for your interest, we look forward to receiving your application.

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