Human Resources Advisor

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality, timely advice on employment relations, performance management, and workplace issues
• Ensure all advice is grounded in NZ employment legislation, policy, and best practice
• Identify and manage legal, reputational and operational risk, escalating where required
• Lead and support ER matters from initial issue through to outcome
• Conduct or support investigations, ensuring procedural fairness and natural justice
• Draft and quality assure documentation (letters, summaries, risk assessments, outcomes)
• Ensure all cases are well-documented, auditable, and legally robust
• Coach and support people leaders to confidently manage ER situations
• Promote early intervention and informal resolution where appropriate
• Strengthen manager self-sufficiency while ensuring consistency and compliance
• Contribute to policy, process and ER practice improvements ...