Head Of People & Culture (Parental Leave Cover)

• Start Mid-June for 10-12 months temporary contract
• Alexandria, Sydney, NSW, Australia - Hybrid Role
• Full-time or Part-time 3+ days

About The Role

This is a really broad role, in a fast growing tech start-up environment where you'll be overseeing and supporting the People &
Culture team of three to provide full employee lifecycle support to 150-200 staff. You'll work closely with the MD and Senior Executive team to ensure that we're building a company with strong leadership and a happy, high performing, and engaged team. With the pace of change at SKUTOPIA, this will be not be a 'cover &
copy' type of maternitycover but will provide an opportunity to be dynamic and impactful whilst in a temporary role - you will be responsible for driving our strategy forward, introducing new initiatives and re-prioritising based upon company needs.

In this role you will:

• End-to-end recruitment support for senior or niche positions across the business.
• Monthly payroll, quarterly superannuation and sponsorship visa processing.
• Improving HR &
  recruitment data collection and monthly reporting dashboards.
• Implementing policies, procedures, and systems - finding ways to automate and improve efficiency as the business grows.
• Promoting learning and development, and internal mobility by working with managers to ensure that their teams have opportunities to grow and progress.
• Managing ER and performance-related issues, ensuring that any issues are handled appropriately and risk is minimised.
• Championing our culture and engagement, including engagement surveys, finding ways to celebrate success, and running initiatives based on feedback.
• Implementing and running a remuneration review process, including salary banding and benchmarking roles.
• Providing advice and coaching support to the MD and Senior Leadership Team. Mentoring and developing the People &
  Culture team.

We think you will need:

• You have at least a few years of experience in a broad Head of People and Culture role, ideally in a fast paced and rapidly scaling start-up environment, with exposure to complex ER matters and the full employee lifecycle.
• Ideally, formal HR qualifications and up to date employment law knowledge of the local Australian market.
• You're happy to be in a role with a huge amount of variety and know how to manage your time and prioritise your work.
• You know how to use data and understand the measures and metrics that we should be tracking to help make better decisions.
• You've got a commercial and collaborative approach and can work with the CEO to find the right balance between minimising risk and keeping the culture fun and agile and giving employees autonomy.
• You'll be comfortable taking the lead and owning things to proactively get them done.