VPS5 Senior Industrial Relations(IR) Consultant

About the role: VPS5 - Senior IR Consultant

Location: Hybrid - Melbourne CBD / working from home

Start Date: ASAP

Engagement Type: Labour hire

Contract Length: ASAP for 7 months (possible extension)

Pay: $71 - $86 per hour + super

Hours: Full-time (38.0 hours per week)

Overview of the role:

Working in the Industrial Relations Sector Team, the Senior Industrial Relations (IR) Consultant provides strategic advice, manages complex employee relations, assists in the bargaining and negotiation process between the government and relevant unions to priority enterprise agreements.

This role will provide advice to ensures compliance with legislation to mitigate industrial risk. They act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, often handling enterprise bargaining, union negotiations, and dispute resolution.

Key Responsibilities

• Contributes to strategic business planning
• Interprets and applies business plans and policies in own area of responsibility and provides advice to others on implementation issues
• Accountable for work organisation, the allocation of resources within and the outputs required of the work area
• Initiates and maintains relationships with peer and senior internal and external stakeholders
• Focuses on understanding stakeholder issues
• Negotiates with stakeholders and peers with the object of gaining co-operation and meeting timelines for delivery of project, service or advice
• Prepares technical reports at an advanced professional level
• Uses specialist knowledge within a confined field to challenge policies and professional concepts.
• Apply complex concepts to policy development or research
• Provides leadership in the adaptation and application of concepts to operational matters within local work area
• Model high level leadership attributes
• Formulates policy options and advice
• Develops project briefs consistent with business plan direction
• Manages and leads projects
• Develop briefs on highly complex issues that provide options for discussion and consideration and will contribute to the development of a set of final options for decision
• Provides high level expertise dealing with more complex issues in a specialised corporate support function
• Develop service plans and delivery standards for the area of responsibility
• Determines service delivery resource allocation
• Provides specialist professional services or advice
• Draft and develop material including the preparation of Cabinet and Cabinet related material, Ministerial and Secretary briefings and meeting papers, agendas, minutes and reports.

Skills required for the position

• Influence and Negotiation
• Problem Solving.
• Self management
• Leadership
• Stakeholder engagement and management
• Creativity and innovation
• High level attention to details

Knowledge required for the position:

• Expertise in the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiation experience is highly regarded.

Qualifications

• Qualifications in law or industrial relations would be highly regarded
• Expertise in the enterprise bargaining agreement negotiation experience is highly regarded.

Eligibility: Candidates must be Australian citizens or permanent residence to be eligible to apply.

Benefits of Contracting with Randstad:

• Access to benefits platforms with discounts at major retailers
• Weekly pay runs
• Exclusive access to roles before they go to market
• Employee assistance programme, including counselling services

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.