People Partner, Strategy and Development
Today, Australia
Job Description
We’re looking to bring in a deeply curious and passionate People Partner, Strategy and Development to help us support and grow our people leaders and nurture our culture.
In 2021, we were lucky to be listed in AFR’s Best Places to Work. While we were chuffed, we want to keep striving to make Today the very best place for people to do their very best work.
We consider ourselves a modern business. We are genuinely purpose-based; our impact in the world steers our every decision. We value distributed leadership and have wonderfully engaged and talented teams who make a difference every day. Laloux would consider us pretty teal, but there is a bit of green in there.
About the People team
This is a new role in the People team. The People team is small but with big ambitions. We are proud of our contribution to Today’s success so far, and we strive to support and grow our culture, systems, practice and policy to enable our teams to do their best work in a cohesive, inclusive and supportive environment.
About the role
This position will see you working with our people and senior leadership teams to innovate our existing people systems and experience touch points to support our creative, high-performing culture.
Your days will be spent:
- Engaging with leaders on people strategy through workforce planning, organisation design and organisation development
- Leading the implementation of change (culture, process, policy) programs and projects that have measurable impact
- Collaborating on big projects from company and people issues, to identifying and developing our key talent, to culture and change management
- Supporting our culture of growth and learning through the execution of our performance, learning, and career framework
- Delivering strategic consultative advice and coaching to senior leaders to address employee relations and performance issues and managing situations that result in the best possible outcomes for Today, teams, and people
- Contributing to the evolution of our practices around ways of working, wellbeing, culture, learning and discovery
Requirements
About you
We are looking for someone who wants to make a positive impact through their craft. You will be able to demonstrate:
- 10+ years of experience in delivering high quality, impactful people services, preferably within a high growth startup, particularly in the for-purpose sector and/or creative industry
- A track record of providing HR expertise to senior leadership on high impact initiatives
- Excellent knowledge of performance, employee relations, talent planning and organisation design
- Experience in proactively identifying, challenging, strategising and implementing people systems, structures and policy and that have made a measurable impact
- Ability to build solid trust-based relationships quickly with senior leadership teams
- Demonstrated skills in nurturing supportive, creative, high performing teams using positive psychology methodologies
- Excellent influencing skills at all levels in an organisation
- Effective in making timely, effective, principles-based decisions
Benefits
Working at Today
We work on work with purpose. Our projects see us finding solutions to big, complex challenges around climate, care and communities.
Above all else we strive to protect our team’s capacity for resilience and their general wellbeing. This goes beyond our dog-friendly workplace and regular pub lunches as a team.
- We offer a compelling career framework and learning budget to support your growth
- Today is a truly flexible workplace, making space and valuing the other important parts of your life, including generous parental leave and your birthday off
- You are actively empowered to help shape the business, the work we do and the impact we create
- We have an open workplace culture that asks for everyone’s input and is constantly welcoming new ideas and ways of working
- You will work closely with our close-knit, multi-disciplinary, self-managed project teams that make interesting, beautiful things that positively impact the community
- Everyone is equally talented and trusts each other to experiment, and suggest new ways to crack client problems, there is no hierarchy
- There are frequent and respected check-in sessionsdigitally or in personto form strong team bonds
- You will have the opportunity to develop skills on the job through collaborating with great minds on complex problems
- We aspire to create the perfect conditions for creatives to do their best work, work they are proud of, work that makes a difference
About Today
We are Australia’s most