Performance & Career Advisor

Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help organisations use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
About the Role (Your Why)
The Performance and Career Advisor supports the Manager of ANZ Performance and Reward in implementing a performance management framework that aligns with Datacom’s strategic goals. This role offers high-level assistance to managers on people and performance issues to enhance employee performance and engagement. Collaborating closely with the broader team, the advisor ensures the execution of operational activities and people initiatives across Datacom, focusing on performance management, workforce planning, compensation and benefits, learning and development, and change management.
What You’ll Do
As a Performance and Career Advisor, your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Evaluate and implement strategies for the functional area, ensuring alignment with Datacom’s overarching strategic goals.
- Develop a communications approach to ensure understanding of Datacom’s performance management framework across all employee and management levels.
- Oversee and enhance performance reporting metrics to provide insights into the effectiveness of Datacom’s performance management framework.
- Manage performance processes from beginning to the end, from ensuring timely communication, testing and enabling systems for launch, providing training to upskill or educate others, and providing tools, guidance and/or trends for the business to ensure consistent and transparent performance principles are applied.
- Collaborate with the broader P&C team to improve the alignment of employee goal setting with Datacom’s business strategy and values.
- Assist with designing future frameworks by leveraging a deep understanding of existing practices and processes to adapt programs to suit changing business directions, while also creating frameworks that facilitate the movement of talent across the business to inspire and retain our people.
- Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement to build a culture of service excellence and demonstrates new ways of working.
- Be part of an effective team that works collaboratively and constructively to achieve business goals and promote a positive culture within the team.

What You’ll Bring
**As a Performance and Career Advisor, you will bring**:

- At least 4 years of HR and/or Learning & Development experience, with significant expertise in deploying a wide range of employee initiatives within a complex industry.
- Exceptional ability to build and maintain strong relationships with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills with excellent writing ability and attention to detail.
- Strong experience in training: in-person, virtual, and development of training modules.
- Extensive experience in designing and implementing programs that cultivate a positive company culture and improve employee experience.
- An ability to manage complex issues of diverse scope where analysis of situation or data requires evaluation of a variety of factors, including an understanding of current business trends.

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.