Regional Human Resources Business Partner

Purpose of Role

The HR Business Partner serves as a strategic business partner to their cluster of schools. They are responsible for ensuring the effective delivery of seamless HR guidance and support across their schools in alignment with local cultural and legal contexts. Reporting to the Regional Head of HR Business Partnering and working closely with School Principals, SLT and line managers, the ISP HRBP will develop and deliver a people plan for their schools that is fully aligned with ISP’s School of Choice, global people strategy and local priorities, driving business goals and supporting school leadership teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Partnership with Regional Head of HR Business Partnering and School Leaders
  - Partner with the Regional Head of HR Business Partnering and Principals/Heads of School to ensure HR activities across their schools support the region’s growth and operational priorities.
  - Provide insights on performance, talent management, skills gaps and development needs to inform workforce planning, succession planning and organisational design.

• Systems, Policies and Processes
  - Drive high proficiency across all system process and capability requirements, acting as a digitally astute professional who champions data-driven and technology-enabled ways of working.
  - Promote end-users engagement with Workday and ensure that HR, line managers and end-users are capable across the whole employee lifecycle.

• Safer Recruitment and Talent Acquisition
  - Ensure a comprehensive approach to safer recruitment across their schools, fully aligned to ISP standards and underpinned by a commitment to upskilling own knowledge and sharing learning and initiatives with their schools and people managers.

• Performance Development and Growth
  - Drive best practice in performance management across their schools, ensuring the performance review process is consistently implemented, with a focus on goal-setting, continuous feedback, and employee development.
  - Collaborate with regional HR and L&I to implement core learning and development programs, ensuring alignment with business needs and creating a strong pipeline for talent development at all levels.

• Talent Management and Development
  - Play a key role in the regional OMR talent review and succession planning process, working closely with School Principals, the Regional Head of HR Business Partnering and Regional Learning Director to identify and develop top talent in their schools in line with ISP’s global approach, guiding, challenging and advising leaders as appropriate.
  - Leverage data-driven strategies and the Workday Talent Optimisation module to inform talent decisions, enabling internal mobility throughout the region and beyond and maintaining a regretted loss rate of under 5%.

• Employee Experience and Culture
  - Champion employee engagement by leading survey feedback discussions, facilitating collaborative action planning, and promoting the sharing and celebration of local initiatives across their schools.
  - Promote ISP's employer brand and purpose in their schools, creating initiatives founded on feedback that improve the employee experience and drive physical and mental wellbeing.
  - Foster a culture of belonging by embedding ISP’s DEIB commitment across their schools, ensuring all employees feel respected, valued, and included in the school communities.

Key Skills

• HR business partnering
• Commercial acumen
• People analytics
• Talent management
• Performance development
• Employee and labour relations
• Organisational design
• Change management
• Cultural awareness
• Diversity and Inclusion
• HR project management
• Coaching techniques
• Human Resource Informaton Systems (HRIS)
• Reward recognition

Pay Range

We anticipate the salary range to be $100,000-$120,000. An individual’s compensation can vary based on several factors which include, but are not limited to, geographic location, experience, training, education, and local market conditions.

Benefits

We offer a benefits package for eligible employees that can include health benefits, retirement contributions, and paid time off.