People and Culture Advisor

Position Details

• 2 Year Contract | Part-Time at 0.8FTE

• Higher Education Officer Level 6 | $89,773 - $95,718 p.a. pro rata + 17% superannuation

• Location: Alice Springs / Arrernte Country or Darwin / Larrakia Country

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About the Role

The People and Culture Advisor plays a key supporting role to the People and Culture Business Partner, assisting with a wide range of People and Culture (P&C) activities within Flinders University’s Rural and Remote Health division. This includes ensuring the effective implementation and operationalisation of all P&C policies and processes.
 

Serving as the primary point of contact within Rural and Remote Health for P&C-related inquiries, the Advisor provides expert guidance on the Enterprise Agreement, as well as relevant policies and procedures. Additionally, the position acts as the liaison to the Employment Services and Recruitment teams, ensuring that all necessary processes are followed, and that documentation is completed accurately and on time.
 

The position will be located at either Alice Springs or Darwin campus in the Northern Territory, but responsible for working across a large geographically dispersed team and will require an understanding of working within the rural and remote context.

About You

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate:

• Tertiary qualification in relevant discipline and/or significant demonstrated skills, knowledge and experience in P&C

• Demonstrated experience working with a HRIS, preferably Workday

• Demonstrated ability to deal with confidential and sensitive matters of a complex nature

• Demonstrated cultural sensitivity and experience of providing services in a diverse environment

• Demonstrated commitment to fostering a positive workplace culture, and role modelling behaviours that support the University’s Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) and commitment to enhancing educational and research advancement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

• Sound knowledge of the Australian higher education sector and the distinctive profile of the Flinders University (Desirable).

Life at Flinders

We're transforming and investing in people and facilities to create contemporary, stimulating, and satisfying learning and work environments that reflect our core values of excellence, innovation, courage, and integrity. Flinders is refocusing its strategic priorities with the aim of elevating its performance to be a top ten Australian university, and amongst the top 1% in the world.
 

Reaching beyond the limits of buildings, borders, and backgrounds, ours is an inclusive culture that believes absolutely in equality and opportunity for all. We don't just accommodate differences; we embrace and celebrate them. So, why work at Flinders?

• 17% Superannuation + salary packaging options

• Flexible working arrangements

• Wide range of professional development activities and services

• We embrace diversity and promote equity and inclusion for all students and staff

• 6 Weeks Annual Leave (NT only)

About People and Culture

People and Culture provide strategic leadership and operational advice to the University, focusing on building a positive work environment that reflects our values. Through the delivery of high-quality human resource policies, procedures, and systems, we provide advice and support to staff and managers on pay, leave, benefits, professional development, equity, diversity, recruitment and health and safety.

About Flinders Rural and Remote Health NT

At Flinders Rural and Remote Health NT, our aim is to be a hub for innovative health research, education, and workforce development across the Northern Territory.  We engage with students, community, and stakeholders to provide critical programs, such as the Northern Territory Medical Program, Paramedicine, Rural Clinical School, and the University Department of Rural Health.
 

Our postgraduate education pathways (Remote Health Practice program), provides workforce development through Indigenous health and clinical skills training, and we have a community driven research program led by researchers committed to improving health outcomes. We work alongside Poche SA+NT focussing on Indigenous leadership capacity development and developing the Indigenous health workforce.  All activities are driven by our values which focus on the long-term and short-term needs of the NT community.

Our Commitment to Reconciliation and Indigenous Employment

Flinders University is proud to be an organisation that is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan and Indigenous Workforce Strategy. Our vision is to be a preferred employer for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.  We are committed to progressing Indigenous advancement in education, research, employment, and wellbeing, and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all Flinders vacancies.

Prescribed Conditions for Employment

• A valid Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

• Northern Territory Government legislation (the Care and Protection of Children Act 2007) now requires all individuals in child related employment or whose duties involve, or are likely to involve, contact with a child, to hold a valid 'Working with Children Clearance' (Ochre Card). This position involves child related work and is assessed as requiring a Working with Children Clearance/Ochre Card.

• Staff working in a health care setting are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID in line with the NT Health policy.

How to Apply and Information

• You are required to submit Suitability Statement of no more than 3 pages, addressing the Key Position Capabilities of the position description.

• For more information regarding this position, please contact Nisha Samuel

• Please see here for our Reconciliation Action Plan

• Please see here for our Indigenous Workforce Strategy

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At Flinders we embrace and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities.

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