The primary accountabilities of the Human Resources Officer include:
Key Responsibilities
- Provide an internal HR consultancy service to line management and staff, ensuring day‑to‑day needs are met for a broad range of HR services and advice.
- Oversee the coordination of rostering processes within the centre and ensure that rostering practices comply with agency standards and legislative provisions.
- Actively contribute to recruitment and retention activities to assist in ensuring that the staffing needs of the centre are met.
- Provide advice on staff resourcing models for the correctional centre to ensure effective use of allocated resourcing funds.
- Provide consultancy, support and advice to branch management and staff for the development and implementation of workforce support and strategy initiatives and programs.
- Oversee general human‑resource administrative support – including administration of the annual leave planner, leave entitlements for staff, and responsibility for answering complex payroll enquiries.
- Assist the roster officer to provide information to management regarding roster estimates and costs.
- Provide significant contribution to the development of HR plans aimed at delivering a broad range of services across the centre, ensuring alignment with relevant HR strategic objectives for QCS.
- Build HR capability in the centre through implementing and coordinating key HR initiatives and supporting management to deliver outcomes associated with these initiatives.
- Ensure timely, accurate and uniform roster coding, maintain data integrity of the rostering system across services, and assist in roster‑based HR and financial analyses.
- Review and analyse HR reporting and provide recommendations to senior management.
- Contribute to the building of the qualified capability of the HR team.
The role description provides the minimum requirements for the role. The incumbent may be required to undertake other duties as required outside of these primary accountabilities.