Description:
- Metro locations
- Permanent, full time role
- Base salary circa $115K
About the Role
The ABC is Australia’s most trusted media organisation, and our People & Culture team is proud to help make the ABC a great place to work. We are seeking a Senior Adviser, On-Air Talent Contracts to lead the management of employment arrangements and contracts for our on-air talent.
In this pivotal role, you’ll collaborate with content leaders, production teams, and business support partners to ensure a consistent, ABC-wide approach to engaging, developing, and retaining on-air talent. You’ll help shape and implement frameworks and processes that support the full talent lifecycle, with a focus on development, retention, and alignment with organisational strategies.
Key responsibilities include:
- Oversee and coordinate contractual arrangements for on-air talent, ensuring compliance with ABC policies, guidelines, and the Enterprise Agreement.
- Manage workflows for talent negotiations and engagements, ensuring appropriate referral and input from relevant teams.
- Track and monitor employment conditions for high-profile talent to support benchmarking and effective contract management.
- Work with business support teams to establish benchmarks and evaluation procedures for talent deals and costs.
- Promote understanding of talent contracting and deal approval processes across the business.
- Develop and maintain guidelines and process maps for managing the end-to-end on-air talent lifecycle, in collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Provide benchmarking data and support for on-air talent packages as needed.
- Support the identification and prioritisation of talent for development and retention, and help coordinate succession planning for key roles.
- Advise on recruitment strategies for new and emerging on-air personalities.
- Act as a key liaison between content leaders and business support teams to ensure a positive and consistent talent management experience.
- Contribute to divisional projects and actively promote ABC values and workplace policies.
Position description: SENIOR ADVISER ON-AIR TALENT CONTRACTS.pdf
About You
You bring experience from a business, production, or content environment and have a solid understanding and grounding in generalist HR practices, particularly as they relate to employment arrangements and contracts. You’re a natural relationship builder and coordinator, comfortable working across teams to deliver effective talent solutions.
You will also demonstrate:
- Generalist HR knowledge and experience with the employee lifecycle, interpretation of enterprise agreements, forms of employment including independent contract agreements and employment contracts.
- Experience supporting contract management, negotiations, or talent engagement within a media, production, or creative business environment.
- Understanding of on-air or screen content production workflows and talent engagement.
- Excellent relationship management, facilitation, and negotiation skills, with the ability to influence and build trust with a range of stakeholders.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative approach to problem-solving.
- Highly developed organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines.
What we can offer you
- 15.4% ABC Nominated Super
- Paid parental, carer’s and supporting partner leave
- Salary packaging
- ABC Mentoring
If you'd like to know more, please contact Shaun Williams, Head Recruitment & People Strategy at Williams.Shaun@abc.NET.au
We are unable to accept email applications, please ensure that you submit your application via the online portal.
Diversity & Inclusion:
In line with our focus on diversity and inclusion, applications are strongly encouraged from Indigenous Australians, people from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people with disability and LGBTQA+ individuals. The ABC also aims to achieve a gender-balanced workforce.
To request recruitment and selection information in alternate formats, request adjustments, or if you have accessibility requirements, please contact accessibility@abc.NET.au
For more information on working at the ABC visit abc.NET.au/careers
Applications Close: 11:55pm, Sunday 11 May 2025.