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!

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

• 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

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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