As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will proactively partner with leaders within a defined portfolio to provide innovative, sustainable, and practical HR solutions and to deliver best practice HR services.

As Senior HR Business Partner, you will:

• Demonstrate cultural capability and/or a commitment to developing cultural capability to ensure an inclusive culture that aligns with the Human Rights Act 2019 and supports departmental programs and community partnerships aimed at preserving cultural connections for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
• Build professional client relationships to create working partnerships and a high level of understanding of client needs to facilitate quality human resource management practices throughout the department.
• Foster and build relationships across the organisation to become a trusted business partner, including brokering services from the wider People and Culture teams by working collaboratively across all areas of People and Culture to build internal capability and promote a culture of continuous improvement.
• Through strong relationships with leaders and regional co-location, identify educational needs of the workforce, and develop and deliver tailored training to build HR capability.
• Utilise workforce analytics to identify trends and provide strategic and tactical HR advice to leaders regarding how to address identified issues.
• Provide coaching, training, and advice to leaders to increase capability and to manage people issues, including performance management, discipline, complaints, recruitment and selection and organisational change. Your advice should identify any industrial and employee relations risks and encompass prevention strategies to mitigate future risks (performance and conduct).
• Prepare correspondence and support leaders in connection with disciplinary processes.
• Maintain a sound knowledge of contemporary HR management practices and provide subject matter expertise in relevant legislation, enterprise agreements, modern awards, policies, and directives, in relation to contemporary human resource practice, particularly within the Queensland Public Sector, and ensure that practices within the department are consistent.
• Prepare written submissions, executive briefs and associated correspondence on significant human resource issues and support the department at meetings, conferences and tribunals including the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
• Partnering with business leaders in the implementation of strategic workforce priorities and initiatives to improve service outcomes.
• Actively contribute to and maintain records, case, and file management systems (including iDOCS and SharePoint). Contribute to and/or prepare data reports as required.
• You may be required to take part in People and Culture projects; for example, organisational change; service innovation and business improvement initiatives; strategic workforce planning; industrial relations strategy and enterprise bargaining; and policy updates.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/657959/25

Closing Date: Wednesday, 17th September 2025