Part-time role - 4 days per week

Are you passionate about creating a positive workplace culture and providing exceptional HR support? The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is seeking a dynamic and experienced HR Coordinator to lead HR operations across the APAC region from our Sydney office. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to make an impact in a global organisation, this role is for you!

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Ownership and Impact: Take charge of diverse HR processes across Singapore, Indonesia, and Australia to become the go-to person for all HR queries and champion our vibrant workplace culture.

• Global Collaboration: Work closely with a global HR team, contributing to international projects and initiatives that shape the employee experience across the global organisation.

• Growth and Development: We’re committed to your professional growth. You’ll be able to lead key HR functions and develop new skills in a supportive, learning-focused environment.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage the employee lifecycle: Oversee every stage of the employee journey, from recruitment to offboarding. This includes crafting compelling job ads, coordinating interviews, managing performance reviews, and ensuring a seamless induction experience.

• Maintain HR systems & documentation: Ensure all employee data and documentation are accurate and up-to-date. Manage visa and immigration processes and support compliance, leveraging your attention to detail.

• Lead culture & engagement initiatives: Drive initiatives that enhance our team culture, such as our health and wellbeing program, team-building activities, and engagement surveys. Be the heartbeat of our team, fostering an inclusive and connected workplace.

• Coordinate performance & development processes: Support managers in setting clear objectives, conducting performance reviews, and fostering professional development. Organise learning and development opportunities to help our team succeed.

• Improve HR processes: Propose and implement improvements to our HR processes, contributing to global HR projects to ensure we remain at the cutting edge of HR practices.

• Oversee office management (Sydney): Support office management tasks, including maintaining office equipment, managing WHS policies, and ensuring a well-functioning and safe work environment.

What We’re Looking For

• HR Expertise: HR tertiary qualifications are required in either a Singapore or Australian context. You bring 3-5 years of HR experience, ideally in a Coordinator or Assistant role. International HR experience is a plus.

• Exceptional Communicator: You excel at communication and interpersonal skills, collaborating effectively with staff, BIT’s head office operations team in the UK, and external suppliers and stakeholders. You are adept at managing correspondence across multiple time zones, occasionally requiring out-of-hours calls.

• Detail-Oriented & Proactive: You have a keen eye for detail and a proactive approach, ensuring that all tasks are handled with precision and confidentiality. You manage multiple responsibilities without missing a beat, consistently meeting deadlines and performing well under pressure.

• Tech-Savvy: You’re comfortable with G-suite (Gmail, Google Drive, etc.) and quickly adapt to new technologies and systems, ensuring smooth and efficient HR operations.

• Cultural Fit: You bring a collaborative spirit and a positive, ‘can-do’ attitude. You’re passionate about creating an engaging workplace and thrive in a flexible, teamwork-driven environment that prioritises continuous improvement.

About us

The Behavioural Insights Team is the world leader in applying behavioural science to public policy challenges to strengthen communities and improve lives. Our APAC business includes offices in Australia and Singapore. We are part of a bigger global group with teams in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas.

We design and rigorously test new ideas across various areas, such as health, crime and education, to establish what works and what doesn’t. We have helped Tuberculosis patients take their medicine, reduced police susceptibility to cyberattacks, and helped organisations close their gender pay gap.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and building a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disability.

Other elements of our Employee Deal

• Flexible working: We support a hybrid working model with flexible start and finish times, allowing you to effectively balance your professional and personal life. We require at least two days per week in the office to maintain our strong office culture.

• Personal & Professional Growth: We believe in continuous learning. Each team member receives a dedicated training and development budget to pursue their interests and career goals.

• Wellbeing Support: We offer an Employee Assistance Program that provides confidential counselling services to help you stay healthy and balanced. We offer each staff member a health and wellbeing budget to support their overall wellness. Additionally, you’ll have free access to Headspace, a leading mindfulness and meditation app, to help you maintain a healthy mind.

• Generous Leave Policies: We offer 5 weeks of annual leave, study leave, and a generous paid parental leave policy because we understand the importance of recharging and focusing on what matters most.

How to apply

We use a blind recruitment process to ensure fairness and reduce bias. This means that during the initial stages, all personal data is removed from your application and your CV.

• Initial Application: You will be asked to answer a few work-based essay questions on our recruitment platform, Applied. Our team will anonymously review your responses, ensuring that your skills and experiences are the primary focus.

• CV Review: If you score highly on the essay questions, our reviewers will review your anonymised CV. We will look for key qualifications, experience in the APAC region, and relevant HR skills.

• Phone Interviews: The top candidates from the CV review stage will be invited to a brief phone interview during the week commencing 14th October. This will be an opportunity for us to learn more about you and for you to ask questions about the role.

• Technical Task & In-Person Interviews: Successful candidates from the phone interviews will be invited to complete a technical task and attend an interview — preferably in person — during the week commencing 21st October. This stage will allow you to demonstrate your skills and meet some of the team.

Key dates

• Role closes: Monday 7 October at 11:59PM AEST

• Phone Interviews: Week commencing 14th October.

• Technical Task & In-Person Interviews: Week commencing 21st October.

All dates are subject to change (but we'll try our best to stick to them!)

Please note:

You must have the right to work in Australia to undertake this role. 

Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with The Behavioural Insights Team will be passed on to The Behavioural Insights Team for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application, (b) inviting you for an interview, and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee/contractor. For full details on how BIT collects and uses your personal data, please visit our website - https://www.bi.team/bit-global-recruitment-privacy-notice/ 

If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by The Behavioural Insights Team for no longer than 6 months after the application deadline has passed (other than in exceptional circumstances where we may need to retain your personal data for longer), at which point your personal data will be securely deleted.