HR Advisor (9 month contract)

About Orange Sky

Orange Sky exists to support Australians who are facing challenges in their lives, including homelessness, financial hardship, limited access to laundry facilities or temporary displacement due to a natural disaster. We are committed to being there when it’s needed most, offering free laundry services, warm showers and friendly chats with our volunteers. Our volunteers and vans hit the road every day across Australia and New Zealand, helping folks feel seen, heard, and supported. Over the past 12 years, we’ve met thousands of amazing people and heard some incredible stories. Now, we’re on the lookout for someone just as passionate to join our team and help keep the wheels turning, literally!

The Role

As a HR Advisor at Orange Sky, you’ll be a key player in fostering an inclusive and high-performing culture, supporting our team on people management matters whilst driving core HR operations. This is a 9 month fixed-term contract.

What you’ll be doing (in a nutshell)

• Elevate Employee Experience: Guide leaders through HR activities that empower our people to thrive.
• Streamline HR Policy & Processes: Optimise our policies, processes and cyclical activities to keep us running smoothly.
• Support Workplace Performance & Wellbeing: Offer guidance on people matters and help ensure our workplace practices align with relevant legislation and internal policies.
• Inspire Through Facilitation: Create and deliver content that builds leadership skills and shares essential knowledge for employees and volunteers.

What you bring to the table

• A minimum of 5 years of relevant HR experience (ideally within a fast-paced environment), alongside relevant tertiary or industry qualifications in HR.
• Experience in the not-for-profit sector and working with a distributed volunteer workforce is highly desirable but not essential.
• Exceptional interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of building trusted relationships and influencing across diverse teams.
• Direct hands-on experience handling employee relations matters.
• Ability to proactively problem-solve to overcome operational challenges, drive positive organisational improvements, and effectively mediate workplace disputes and grievances.
• A proactive, curious and improvement-focused mindset paired with a genuine, authentic commitment to Orange Sky's mission and values.

Why Join Orange Sky?

At Orange Sky, we want every person to be "Better for Being Orange" that includes our volunteers, friends, supporters, and employees. Joining our team means working alongside a passionate, high-performing group of people dedicated to our mission of Positively Connecting Communities.

We offer an inclusive, modern, and flexible environment where your well-being, life circumstances, and personal growth are genuinely supported through our industry-leading benefits, including:

• Personal & Wellbeing Leave: Wide coverage of leave incorporating reproductive health, mental health, and extended personal care.
• Cultural & Flexible Public Holidays: Option to substitute public holidays for another day that works best for you as well as the ability to swap a cultural or religious public holiday for observance of a day that is more in line with your beliefs.
• Inclusive Compassionate Leave: Includes close family members, family friends, pregnancy-related loss, and pets.
• Community Services Leave: Paid leave for emergency response volunteering and full support for jury duty.
• Annual Leave Flexibility: Options to cash out leave or convert interrupted annual leave to personal/compassionate leave.
• Competitive Remuneration & Perks: Attractive base salary plus non-profit salary packaging (up to $15,900 tax-free per year); paid-out rewards scheme; travel allowance; Orange Sky public holiday and additional gifted leave for high performance.
• Culture, Flexibility & Balance: Flexible working arrangements and dog-friendly offices - bring your furry best mate to work!
• Health & Wellbeing Support: Fitness Passport (discounted gym memberships) for you and your family; dedicated wellness initiatives; and a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Growth & Development: Personal and professional growth pathways (My Career Pathway) with dedicated professional development funding.
• Recognised Diversity Leader: Orange Sky Australia is proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer by Diversity Council Australia (DCA).
• Purpose: The warm fuzzies that come from doing work that truly matters every single day.

We are committed to facilitating a barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. If you require any accommodations, we welcome you to let us know so we can work with you to participate fully in our recruitment experience.

The successful candidate will be required to undergo a standard background and criminal record check prior to commencement that will be assessed on case by case basis.

Please contact Emma Young if you have any further questions at emma@orangesky.org.au