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Role highlights
- Partner with senior leaders to shape People strategies and influence CSIRO’s priorities.
- Support Executives, lead organisational initiatives, and help shape culture and ways of working.
- Work across multiple units, deliver high-value HR solutions, and contribute to research-enabled success.
About CSIRO
As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology.
The opportunity
CSIRO is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to engage with senior leaders, understand business needs, provide strategic advice, and broker people services and initiatives.
You will join a small, expert team of HR Business Partners within People Partnering & Services, supporting our Enterprise Services staff—professionals who provide essential services enabling our researchers to deliver impact.
Your high-level duties will include:
- Engage with senior leaders to understand CSIRO business needs, provide strategic HR advice, and broker people services and initiatives.
- Contribute proactively to leadership teams on people matters and provide input into business unit strategy.
- Translate business priorities into actionable People plans, supporting talent development, succession, workforce planning, and organisational design.
- Support organisational change, fostering the desired culture and employer brand.
- Apply HR expertise and current trends to recommend solutions and collaborate with subject matter experts to improve HR services.
- Analyse insights from strategic reports to inform decision-making.
- Demonstrate integrity, tact, and confidentiality, and communicate respectfully with all stakeholders.
Role particulars
Location: Melbourne (Clayton), Brisbane (Dutton Park or Pullenvale), Canberra, (Black Mountain) other locations may be considered.
Salary: AU$131k – AU$153k per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation
Tenure & work schedule: Specified term of 12 months, full-time, flexible work arrangements can be discussed based on needs of role and individual circumstances.
Reference:
As the successful candidate, you will bring:
Essential Criteria
- Relevant Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in Human Resource Management, Business Management, or other relevant discipline.
- Demonstrated experience of developing effective people solutions to diverse business problems and supporting senior executives.
- A minimum of 10 years' experience in a role providing generalist and strategic HR advice on a range of complex HR, organisational and employee relations issues across the employment lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to lead conversations with senior stakeholders to articulate business needs and develop an appropriate strategic response.
- Demonstrated ability to effectively challenge, coach and hold leaders to account, i.e., managerial courage.
- A track record of being able to anticipate and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders.
- An ability to assess the risk and opportunity of identified strategies, options and actions while overcoming problems and setbacks in achieving goals.
- Strong interpersonal skills exemplified by experience establishing and maintaining strong partnerships and a history of delivering a credible and exceptional level of customer service.
- Extensive change management experience in an organisation of comparable size and complexity, with the ability to deliver high quality outcomes.
- Superior written and oral communication skills, evidenced by high-level reporting, presentation and negotiation abilities, and the capacity to identify and influence critical stakeholders to gain support for contentious proposals/ideas.
- Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail, able to prioritise competing demands, and a explicit understanding of risk and when to escalate issues to achieve positive outcomes.
- Demonstrated evidence of professional and respectful behaviours and attitudes in a collaborative team setting.
Inclusion and belonging
Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong.
Eligibility
Applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens, New Zealand Citizens and Australian Permanent Residents.
How To Apply
Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.
Applications close
Tuesday 14 October 2025, 11:00pm AEDT
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📌 Human Resources Business Partner
🏢 CSIRO
📍 Canberra