At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide expert advice on workplace relations and integrity issues in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Victorian Public Service, committed to diversity and inclusion.
- Benefits: Ongoing position with flexible work options and a supportive culture.
- Other info: Join a team that values resilience and collaboration while promoting career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by resolving complex employee matters and shaping workplace policies.
- Qualifications: Experience in workplace relations and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 50715 - 61985 $ per year.
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
About the Role
The Senior Adviser, Workplace Relations and Integrity Services provides support across workplace relations, employee conduct, integrity services, and people risk management within the Victorian Public Service (VPS). Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role partners with the HR Business Partnering team and senior stakeholders to resolve sensitive employee matters, interpret industrial instruments and legislation.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide timely expert advice and support on highly complex ER/IR and integrity issues including change management, to meet industrial and legal requirements.
- Responsible for the development, maintenance and effective communication of Workplace Relations and Corporate Integrity and Governance policies and frameworks, ensuring continuous improvement in line with organisational changes and legislative updates.
- Coordinates workplace investigations, disciplinary proceedings, and performance management processes, ensuring compliance with relevant industrial instruments, the Fair Work Act 2009 and current industry best practice.
- Manage the departmental review of actions process to effectively resolve issues raised by employees as a Review of Actions Registrar pursuant to the Review of Actions Regulations 2025.
About You
- Demonstrated ability to provide succinct and clear expert advice to stakeholders on a range of employment, change management or health and safety matters, using a range of strategies to engage and communicate.
- Resilience: Maintains composure and effectiveness when dealing with complex and sensitive matters; is decisive and provides recommendations to course of actions enabling teams to resolve challenging situations.
- Partnering and Co-creation: Builds and maintains partnerships to achieve objectives; coaches others on the co-creation process and builds team commitment to co-creation by demonstrating personal commitment; builds trust in partnerships through timely and quality delivery of outcomes; facilitates discussion and navigates differences of opinion to reach decisions.
- Managing Difficult Conversations: Seeks and evaluates options to resolve problems; negotiates agreed actions to deal with problems; coaches others in negotiation.
This role is an ongoing position. This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia. Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on 25 August 2026. All applications should include: a resume; and a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages).
Other relevant information
To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening. DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.
Applications close Tuesday 25 August.
Senior Adviser, Workplace Relations and Integrity Services employer: State Government of Victoria, Australia
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Contact Details:
State Government of Victoria, Australia Recruitment Team
