Contingent Workforce Lead - Permanent, Full Time - Newcastle - Flexible working from home options

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

In this newly created position, you will enable the engagement of third parties for temporary employees in a client-first, compliant, efficient and cost-effective manner through active engagement of key internal and external stakeholders.  Key to your success in this role will be your expertise in fostering relationships along with your ability to think strategically. Joining our People & Culture Services team, this is a permanent full-time position where the preferred office location is Newcastle with the flexibility to work from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and manage the Temporary Workforce Policy
• Manage the RACI for the policy and procedures, supporting and providing guidance to internal stakeholders to ensure their understanding of their responsibilities
• Actively influence, communicate and educate users of temporary workforce employees
• Partner with internal teams to ensure third parties and temporary workers are compliant
• Partner with Procurement to establish and monitor procedures to ensure line management review of invoiced hours and amounts are representative of hours delivered
• Partner with Workforce planning team to understand demand drivers of temporary workforce utilisation and establish targets and thresholds of utilisation
• Establish and monitor temporary workforce utilisation dashboard and provide internal stakeholders and Executive reporting

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in business, human resources, or similar
• Understanding and experience in workforce planning
• Demonstrated experience in managing a temporary workforce, and or temporary workforce providers
• Experience in writing policies and procedures and developing communications and engagement plans
• The ability to influence and work collaboratively with a range of stakeholders including executive-level stakeholders, peers, employees and external organisations
• Demonstrated success in building new business capabilities and achieving tangible business benefits and outcomes that align with the strategic focus of the business
• Significant experience in managing competing priorities and to deliver high quality outcomes within agreed timeframes

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including a National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Tax benefits through salary packaging
• Laptop and mobile phone
• Flexible working from home options.

How to Apply 

Include your resume and covering letter, click the apply button and follow the screen prompts. For any enquiries contact Sarah Bruitzman @ sarah.bruitzman@lwb.org.au 
   
Applications close midnight Wednesday 5th January 2022.

Please note: Mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations may be required for this position, in accordance with relevant Public Health Orders across all States and Territories. In these circumstances, evidence of vaccination will be required prior to an offer of employment.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face-to-face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here (https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA)