Senior People & Culture Advisor

At sKids, we believe childhood should be full of laughter, learning, and adventure! Since 1996, we’ve been creating awesome out-of-school experiences for Tamariki across New Zealand. Today, we welcome thousands of children every day at over 140 school sites nationwide – and we’re still growing!

Job Description

We’re currently on the hunt for a Senior P&C Advisor to join our hard-working support office team based in Glenfield. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll be in the thick of it, partnering with leaders across multiple school sites.

As our Senior P&C Advisor, you’ll act as a trusted partner to leaders, guiding them through everything from day-to-day people decisions to complex employment relations matters. You’ll play a critical role in lifting leadership capability, driving consistency across sites, and helping shift the organisation from reactive HR to proactive, forward-thinking people practices.

A peek into your new role

Providing practical, commercially sound advice to leaders on ER, performance, conduct, and people management matters

Leading complex ER cases and investigations with confidence, discretion, and strong judgement

Acting as the senior people leader in the business, setting the tone for strong, consistent and fair people practices across sKids New Zealand

Owning and leading people-focused projects and initiatives that strength, simplify and embed policies, processes and frameworks

Reviewing and strengthening policies, frameworks, and people processes to improve consistency and compliance

Driving continuous improvement in how people practices operate day to day, shifting the organisation from reactive HR to proactive, future focused capability

Working alongside Talent Acquisition and P&C support roles to guide recruitment, onboarding, and workforce decisions

Using people data and insights to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and influence better decision making

Providing trusted advice and challenge to leaders, helping lift leadership capability and accountability across the organisation

What's in it for you?

Flexible working options including hybrid work (3 days in office)

A genuinely impactful role where you can shape how people practices evolve across the organisation

Exposure to complex ER and organisational change, not just BAU advisory work

The opportunity to partner closely with senior leaders and influence outcomes

A fast-paced, operational environment where no two days look the same

Qualifications

Proven experience in a generalist HR / People & Culture advisory role, supporting leaders across the full employee lifecycle - multi site highly regarded
Strong ER capability, with experience managing complex cases and investigations end-to-end
Experience working in fast-paced, operational or frontline environments (retail, hospitality, education, care, etc.)
Confident coaching and influencing leaders, including challenging where needed
Data literate, with the ability to interpret workforce trends and translate them into actionable insights
Tertiary qualification in HR, Employment Relations, Business, or similar - desired

Additional Information

sKids is committed to Child Protection and the safeguarding of children and young people in our care and we expect all staff to operate in a way that reflects this intent. All successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check. All applicants must hold the right to work in New Zealand.

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