About our School

Ascham is one of the world’s leading girls’ schools, and since its foundation in 1886 has educated girls who develop into confident, independent, compassionate young women. Ascham is an inclusive, day and boarding school for students in years P-12, within a warm, welcoming and team-oriented environment.

We value staff who demonstrate a positive, proactive approach to their work and have a willingness to participate in the life of the school. We look for energetic, dedicated and capable staff who are full of ideas; embrace a fast-paced environment; and demonstrate initiative, empathy and professionalism to help the school achieve its strategic objectives.

About this Role

At Ascham, we employ some 600 employees in permanent, temporary and casual teaching and non-teaching roles, with everyone based on our single-site campus at Edgecliff, and at the heart of all we do.

We are looking for a permanent full-time Human Resources Advisor to join our team and help create an exceptional employee experience, with responsive and professional end-to-end Human Resources (HR) support across the employee lifecycle. Working collaboratively with leaders and employees across the school, you will coordinate recruitment and onboarding, provide practical HR advice, support payroll-related processes, and champion continuous improvement initiatives that enable our staff and community to thrive.

If you’re a proactive HR Generalist looking for that next step, enjoy building strong relationships, and are keen to play a key role in the attraction, development and retention of quality staff we’d love to hear from you!

What You Will Do





- Provide day-to-day HR advice and operational support to managers and staff across the employee lifecycle.
- Manage HR processes including recruitment, onboarding, employment changes, leave, probation, performance support, compliance, records management and offboarding.
- Act as the primary operational liaison between Human Resources and Payroll, ensuring the accurate and timely processing of commencements, variations, leave, allowances and cessations.
- Serve as the School's ELMO HR Information System super user and provide ELMO training, guidance and user support to managers, employees and HR colleagues.
- Produce HR reports and workforce metrics, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
- Support managers with routine employee relations matters, including probation, attendance, flexible work arrangements, performance documentation and policy interpretation.
- Contribute to HR projects, policy reviews, workforce initiatives and continuous improvement activities.

What You Will Bring

- Tertiary qualification in Human Resources / a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- HR generalist or advisory experience across recruitment and the employment lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple operational processes.
- Ability to provide sound first-level advice and escalate appropriately.




- Understanding of Australian employment legislation and industrial instruments.
- Proven organisation and accuracy skills, with high levels of judgement and confidentiality
- Sound communication, interpersonal, influencing and stakeholder service skills.
- Strong HRIS capability, preferably with ELMO, and confidence training users, troubleshooting workflows and maintaining data quality.
- Ability to use technology including Microsoft Office Suite programs and particularly MS Excel at an intermediate to advanced level
- A valid Working with Children Check and commitment to child safeguarding.

Interested?

This role is worked all year-round including during term breaks and is based on site.

For further information, including a position description please go to https://www.ascham.nsw.edu.au/connecting/careers-at-ascham

Then, if this sounds like you, please apply via SEEK by 11.59pm on Thursday 17 September 2026. Applications should include a resume and a 1-2-page cover letter addressing the requirements of the role (listing WWCC, CPR and First Aid details if available).

We are conducting interviews for this role on a rolling basis and encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure consideration. Please note also that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

Ascham seeks to provide a child-safe environment. We actively promote the safety and well being of our students, with staff committed to protecting students from abuse or harm, in accordance with their legal and ethical obligations. Ascham’s Child Safe policies and Staff Code of Conduct are available on our website.

📌 Human Resources Advisor (Sydney)
🏢 Ascham School
📍 Sydney