Senior Talent Business Partner

Senior Talent Business Partner, Ongoing opportunities based in Sydney CBD, Parramatta or Gosford, with hybrid working options available

• Branch and Division: SafeWork NSW, People and Corporate Services Directorate
• Grade: Clerk Grade 9/10, salary range for this role is $133,348 - $146,945 base plus superannuation
• Location: Sydney, Parramatta or Gosford. We offer flexible hybrid working, including up to two days per week working from home.
• Term: There are two ongoing positions available

About the team

SafeWork NSW is looking for a motivated Senior Talent Acquisition Lead to lead a small team while remaining hands on in the delivery of talent acquisition services. This is a genuine hybrid role where you'll coach and support your team while also partnering directly with stakeholders and managing recruitment activity, particularly for complex, critical and hard to fill roles.

Talent Acquisition sits within the People and Corporate Services Directorate, a high performing and collaborative team that supports SafeWork NSW through functions including People and Culture, Organisational Development, Finance, Media and Communications, Stakeholder Engagement and a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). We pride ourselves on building strong relationships, working collaboratively and finding better ways of doing things. This role will suit someone who is people focused, enjoys stakeholder engagement and is passionate about delivering great recruitment outcomes and candidate experiences.

You will partner closely with business leaders to understand workforce needs, implement workforce planning approaches and deliver contemporary talent solutions that support organisational priorities. You'll help foster a business partnering mindset within your team, bring innovative approaches to attraction and assessment, including assessment centres where appropriate, and contribute to the continuous improvement of recruitment processes, systems and practices.

Working closely with the Manager Talent Acquisition and your peers, you'll play an important role in shaping a contemporary Talent Acquisition function while building trusted relationships across the organisation. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing leadership, stakeholder engagement and hands on recruitment delivery in a fast paced and evolving environment.

Your day-to-day

In this role, you will:

• Lead and manage a small team of talent professionals
• Personally manage the delivery of recruitment for complex, senior or hard-to-fill roles, including candidate attraction, assessment and selection.
• Develop workforce planning approaches for the business areas your team supports, partnering with managers to understand current and future needs.
• Enable a business partnering culture, ensuring your team builds strong, consultative relationships with the areas they support.
• Design and lead innovative and contemporary selection methodologies, including assessment centres where appropriate.
• Coach, support and develop your team, providing expert advice on talent acquisition methodologies.
• Maintain strong customer and stakeholder relationships to ensure services meet business needs.
• Monitor, review and report on talent acquisition metrics and performance to drive continuous improvement.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• Strong, hands-on expertise in end-to-end talent acquisition, including recruiting complex or hard-to-fill roles.
• Experience leading and developing a team while remaining actively involved in recruitment delivery.
• Experience developing workforce planning approaches in partnership with business stakeholders.
• The ability to build a business partnering culture and strong consultative relationships with client areas.
• Knowledge of contemporary and innovative talent approaches, including assessment centres.
• Strong communication, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Expertise running recruitment in NSW Government is highly desirable, but not essential.

About SafeWork NSW

SafeWork NSW is the state's workplace health and safety regulator, working towards our vision of Safe and Healthy Workplaces, for Every Worker, Every Day. Through education, compliance and enforcement activities, we help prevent work related fatalities, serious injuries and illnesses while promoting safer and healthier workplaces across NSW.

This is an exciting time to join SafeWork NSW as we continue to evolve and strengthen our impact. You'll have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful work, support positive change and help shape the future of workplace safety and wellbeing for the people of NSW.

How to apply:

To start your journey towards joining SafeWork NSW, please click on the link below and attach your resume (max 4 pages) and a cover letter (max 2 pages).

Your cover letter should outline your motivation for applying for this position. After you click Apply, you will be asked to answer two targeted questions.

A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities. 

Salary Grade 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at $133,348 base plus superannuation

Click Here to access the Role Description . For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Nicole Turner via nicole.turner@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.

Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.

A talent pool may be created as part of this recruitment process and will be valid for up to 18 months. The talent pool may be used to fill future ongoing or temporary vacancies of the same or similar role.     

Closing Date: 10am Wednesday 9th September

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