About Us 

G8 Education is one of Australia’s largest early education and care providers, with more than 400 centres across Australia and over 10,000 team members who are all helping shape the lives of over 40,000 children every day.  Our core values of passion, innovation, dedication, compassion, and integrity, unite us on our journey to ensure the health and happiness of future generations where we are committed to developing a culture that empowers and rewards our family of early childhood educators, teachers, leaders, and support office team members.  

About the Role 

We are looking for an experienced and strategic Senior People and Culture Business Partner to partner with senior leadership within our support office. In this dynamic role you will be pivotal in delivering our People Strategy and contributing towards our company culture, while ensuring a positive, high-performance work environment is maintained. 

Your day-to-day 

• Work closely with the Chief People Officer to drive transformational change, accountability and efficiencies across the Support Office. 

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with Executive and Senior Leaders assisting them to achieve their business objectives through the provision of professional advice and coaching.  

• Partner with the specialist people support teams to ensure solution are developed and available for support team needs and requirements.  

• Support Leaders in developing and evolving organisational design solutions for functional support teams that enable the business to achieve strategic goals and objectives. 

• Ensure the effective delivery of the performance cycle through working closely with the capability team on design, coaching leaders, and team on maximising performance discussions, and ensuring performance plans are regularly reviewed and delivered upon.  

• Analyses exit data and people metric data to formulate strategies to support team engagement and performance.  

• Provide performance support and guidance to leaders, promoting a proactive approach to the management of team members and improving performance.  

• Provide guidance to leaders ensuring issues including grievances, and complaints are effectively managed and resolved ensuring leaders are accountable for identification and ongoing management of underperformance and disciplinary cases.  

About You 

• 5+ years of Generalist Human Resources experience 

• Stakeholder management and proven business partnering ability leading businesses through change and transformation 

• Proven ability to build a high-performance culture through organisation design and culture initiatives 

• Experience working in a fast-paced, multi-site organisation 

• Professional integrity and confidentiality 

• Excellent time management and organisational skills 

If you are looking for a genuine Business Partnering role that can have big impact, apply today!  

Please note the advertising closing date is indicative only.  G8 Education reserves the right to close the advertisement before this date is reached. Therefore, it is encouraged that you submit your application as soon as possible.  

G8 Education is a committed advocate for child protection, safety and wellbeing. We have a zero tolerance for any form of child abuse or harm. The safety and wellbeing of children will always be our priority and all team members are expected to embrace this shared commitment. All G8 Education employees will need to hold a relevant Working with Children Check upon their commencement into the business.