A leading national not-for-profit organisation supporting individuals on the autism spectrum is seeking a passionate and capable People & Culture Business Partner to join its collaborative and values-driven team. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to a purposeful organisation delivering specialised education across multiple states.

This position sits within the People, Culture team and reports directly to the Chief People Officer. As the HR Business Partner for the Education division, you’ll work closely with school Principals and teachers across a national school network. You’ll provide operational HR support to teaching teams—spanning employee relations, workforce planning, and leadership development.

This is a hands-on, impactful role with the support of HR internal Centres of Excellence. You’ll play a key part in enabling leadership capability, driving people performance, and supporting a culture of inclusion and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with school Principals and teachers to support all aspects of the employee lifecycle.
• Provide timely and expert advice on performance management, award interpretation, and compliance.
• Work across projects focused on workforce capability, safety, wellbeing, and organisational development.
• Collaborate closely with Talent Acquisition and OD to implement effective talent, leadership and workforce strategies.
• Deliver employee relations guidance, ensure policy compliance, and support change initiatives.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in a HR Business Partner or generalist HR advisory role.
• Proven capability in ER/IR and performance management in complex, highly regulated sectors
• Ideally, sector experience education, disability services, or similar human services industries, or a professional passion for these industries.
• Empathetic, pragmatic, and able to build trusted relationships across diverse teams.
• Tertiary qualifications in HR or a related discipline.
• Current driver’s licence and ability to travel locally as required.

This is an initial 3 month Fixed Term Contract until approx. November 2025 with a potential to extend. You must be available to start immediately. Hybrid working from home with 1-2 days in the office, in addition to the regular site based travel. This is a full time position, however flexibility on offer for the right candidate with part-time hours on offer.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to contribute meaningfully to a mission-driven environment supporting educational outcomes for children, in a student centric highly-regarded organisation, with exposure to contemporary leading learning principles and practices.

We welcome your enquiries and encourage your contact. Please call Matthew Saitta on 02 8045 2923 or apply online quoting reference number 3949816.

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