Senior Manager Workplace Relations

As a Senior Leader on the P&C Leadership Team, you will provide specialist employment and industrial relations advice to the Executive and Senior Management team at Uniting. You will support and develop other key customer groups, including P&C Partnership team and Payroll, to ensure all statutory employer obligations are met.

Leading a small team of two Workplace Relations Advisors and working across multiple industrial instruments, you will:

• Manage and lead enterprise bargaining and implementation of single enterprise and multi-employer agreements
• Review and amend the IR strategy to align with sector changes and organisational objectives
• Provide employment law advice, and case management services on a range of complex workplace relations issues, including managing performance and conduct-related matters
• Represent Uniting at the Fair Work Commission and other tribunals.
• Oversee, advise on, and review complex workplace investigations

What’s on offer
In addition to your salary ranging between $170k – $190k + Super, you will have access to:

• A team of passionate, like–minded individuals that focus on advocating for Australia’s most vulnerable people and ensuring that their voice is heard both inside and outside of the organisation.
• Work a combination of work-from-home and office days based at 130 Lonsdale Street with occasional travel to other Uniting office locations
• Ability to increase your take-home pay by accessing up to $15,900 in salary packaging benefits which can be used for living expenses such as rent, groceries, bills, clothing, and much more.
• 10% discount on the childcare subsidy gap fee when using a Uniting Early Learning service or centre.

 
About you
You have previous people and function leadership experience and are comfortable in engaging with and advising a senior and executive customer group. Your extensive experience as a workplace relations practitioner has been built from working in large, diverse, and complex organisations, engaging with unions, and navigating multiple industrial instruments.

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources and or Law
• Demonstrated success with developing and implementing bargaining strategies
• Significant practical experience in appearing before the Fair Work Commission and other tribunals
• Extensive knowledge of Australian workplace laws incl. keeping abreast of legislative changes, IR Reforms, and sector trends
• Extensive workplace investigations experience.

View the position description for further information.

How to apply
Click APPLY to submit your interest and we’ll be in touch shortly. If you’d like to chat about the opportunity, please contact Amy Padgham – General Manager People, Quality & Strategy on 0408 100 833.

About Uniting
At Uniting we are passionate about working together to inspire people, enliven communities and confront injustice. We have a 5,000 strong workforce of employees and volunteers who deliver a diverse range of services across Victoria and Tasmania.

 
Visit us: www.vt.uniting.org

 
Uniting is a child safe organisation and is committed in everyday practice to ensure the safety and wellbeing of all children, at all times. As a ‘child safe’ organisation, employment with Uniting is subject to a satisfactory national (and international where relevant) police check and relevant Working with Children Check in your State prior to commencement of any paid or unpaid work and/or participation in any service or undertaking.

Through the recruitment process, we will ask you for personal information. You do not have to disclose any personal information if you do not want to, but if can help us understand how we can support you through the recruitment process and beyond. We invite you to tell us if you identify as Aboriginal, a person with disability, from a culturally or linguistically diverse background or LGBT+ and you are given an opportunity in the application form to request additional support. We will welcome the opportunity to contact you and discuss how we can support you through the recruitment process.