Employment Relations Advisor - Fixed Term Until June 2026

Position:  Employment Relations Advisor (Fixed Term until June 2026)

Datacom Location:  Anywhere in New Zealand

Security Requirements: Current (at time of applying) Citizens and Residents of New Zealand Only

Our Why 

Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help them to use the power of tech to innovate and grow. 

About the Role (your why)  

As an Employment Relations Advisor, you’ll play a crucial role in ensuring fair and effective employment practices, with guidance, across our ANZ practices. This role will analyse information and data necessary to define and discern reputational, cost and policy implications of negotiations and disputes. The role oversees daily business activities within the functional area, including, working alongside colleagues to improve overall business functions.

Our offices are based in Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. We like to bring people together in person when we can, but we are mindful of the benefits of working from home for work/life balance. We therefore leave it to you and the team you join to figure out what works best! 

What You’ll Do   

• Provide expert advice on employment legislation, policies, and procedures to People and Culture, and the business, within the latitude of established company policies in order to meet schedules and resolve technical problems.
• Conduct investigations into workplace disputes, grievances, and disciplinary matters and represent Datacom where necessary in meetings, negotiations and investigations with employees/their representative.
• Conduct research on human resource policies, case law and other employment issues.
• Ensuring value and business outcomes are evaluated and articulated appropriately.
• Familiarity with recognised industry bodies of knowledge, both generic and specific.
• Mentoring and coaching others
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and legal developments.

We are a pretty agile company and are keen to respond to customer, technology and internal stakeholders’ changing requirements and this can mean we evolve in our roles to meet those needs. 

What You’ll Bring  

• Bachelor degree in Human Resources or a related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Extensive knowledge of employee and industrial relations frameworks.
• Good knowledge in people management best practice principles, initiatives and processes.
• Ability to understand impact of decisions on wider group.
• Knowledge of employment and company compliance.
• Demonstrated experience in an ER role.
• Ability to manage complex issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors and exercise judgment in selecting methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for obtaining results.
• Proven negotiating skills with the aptitude to ensure win/win situations for all parties.
• Effective presentation skills with the ability to convey complex information across various levels.

Why Join Us Here at Datacom? 

Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us. 

We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment. 

We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities. 

We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.