Emily Lyons Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Leading core change initiatives across the university and providing strategic solutions to executives and managers across multiple portfolios. With a focus on ensuring strong organisational design, building strong and engaged workplace cultures and coaching leaders at all levels.

I partner with senior stakeholders across multiple divisions in the university to understand the business drivers and ensuring this is supported by the people strategy. Currently supporting 5 professional service portfolios including Marketing, Student Recruitment, Residential Services, Student Support Services and HR. Within this role I have:• Developed quality working practices that are underpinned by metrics and analysis that align to business goals including implementing talent mapping including succession planning, workforce planning and pulse engagement surveys across a multitude of portfolios. • Supported significant and rapid growth with a focus on job redesign and capability planning for the future. • Focused on engagement and a strengths-based approach to people management, having implemented mentoring frameworks, leading a reward and recognition design project and running training on acceptable behaviours in the workplace, performance management and enforcing inclusive and respectful work practices in accordance to policy.

Providing advisery support to one of the largest professional portfolio in the university the eSolutions team who focus on delivering high level IT support and strategic direction across the university. Responsible for ensuring operational excellence is delivered and transactional activities are managed seamlessly, meeting key milestones and deliverables through providing expert advice but also being a conduit between the client and the HR Centres of expertise. Managed and delivered on core HR projects such as overhauling the onboarding processes, refining the annual performance review process and supporting the role out of tailored management training.

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Reporting to the Head of People and Change, I was responsible for managing the end to end employment life-cycle, framework and experience for 3 diverse branches of the division Accelerate Careers-student coaching, Gaval-an online auction platform and CMR Personnel-a labor hire agency. Whilst working for the company I: • Overhauled HR framework including redesigning the policy and procedure manual, employee contracts and position description, flexible work re-design and management training. • Provided advice and support in the management and resolution of operational HR issues within the framework of relevant employment awards and legislation, policies and procedures and the companies values;

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At VECCI I enjoyed the challenging and yet rewarding role of Senior Workplace Relations Advisor. This involved providing ongoing and comprehensive IR and HR support to Employers who are members of the organisation on a varying array of areas including:o Managing terminations and redundancies;o Performance management and appraisals;o Interpreting Enterprise Bargaining Agreements, managing unions and Modern Award Coverage; and o Managing long term illness and injury and WorkCover claims.I developed ongoing and positive relations with clients through providing consistently reliable and understandable information, increasing the membership base and retaining key members and conducted regular training on a diverse range of topics to employers.

Secondment from VECCI to Yarra Trams to support the internal HR and IR function. During time at Yarra Trams was responsible for functions such as: Developing and implementing a mediation training program for frontline managers. reviewing and further developing policies and procedures, and providing support surrounding case management the process for Unfair Dismissal Claims and investigations.

United Renewable Energy was my starting point within the Human Resources discipline. I was sole HR coordinator for this rapidly expanding renewable energy company which had a peak of 50 employees and sub contractors. I performed a wide array of generalist HR activities in this role, from end to end recruitment, managing employee relations, developing performance management processes, organizing inductions and working to foster a positive workplace culture. I also worked to ensure the OHS compliance of the company, develop effective KPI’s and handled the payroll system. From this role I discovered the challenges and benefits about being involved with a new expanding company and ensuring the HR policies and actions respond to this change. I also discovered my interest in the Industrial Relations side of Human Resources.

Master Of Human Resource Management

Bachelor Of Business (Management) And Arts (Criminology)