Admin & Executive Support ✦ Dedicated & full-time

HR
Specialist

Recruitment admin, onboarding and HR records that keep your people ops smooth — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
Fully managedWe hire, you lead

What a HR Specialist does

People operations run on process. An HR specialist handles the recruitment admin, onboarding and records so your team gets a great experience and your compliance stays tight.

Every StaffingSolutions.io hr specialist is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Job posting — and applicant admin.
  • Interview scheduling — coordinated.
  • Onboarding — and offboarding.
  • HR records — accurate and compliant.
  • Leave & attendance — tracked.
  • Policy support — documents maintained.
The actual work

A week in the role

An HR administrator lives in the HRIS and the employee file. The week is onboarding paperwork, leave requests, award classification checks, probation dates, expiring licences and the records Fair Work expects a business to hold. The client's HR manager or director makes the calls on people matters.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Issue the new starter pack

Sends the TFN declaration, Superannuation Standard Choice form, Fair Work Information Statement and Casual Employment Information Statement through Employment Hero, then chases anything unreturned before the first pay run so PAYG isn't withheld at the top rate.

Keep employee files audit-ready

Maintains records in Employment Hero, ELMO or foundU — contract, classification level, hours, variations, emergency contacts — against the seven-year retention the Fair Work Regulations require, and fixes the records that were never completed properly.

Process leave against balances

Checks annual, personal, parental and long service leave requests against accrued balances and state LSL rules, flags requests that would run into leave without pay, and updates the roster and calendar once the manager approves.

Draft contracts and variation letters

Prepares employment contracts, hours-change letters and flexible work responses from the client's approved templates, populates the classification and rate, and sends them to the client's HR manager or director to review and sign.

Desk-check award classifications

Pulls the current pay guide for the applicable modern award from the Fair Work Ombudsman site, maps each role to its classification level, and flags any rate, allowance or penalty that looks under-applied for the client to resolve.

Track probation and review dates

Runs the diary of probation end dates, six-month and annual review dates, issues the review templates to managers ahead of time and books the meetings, so probation confirmations don't lapse by default.

Maintain the credential register

Tracks visa expiry dates confirmed through VEVO, driver licences, tickets, NDIS Worker Screening and Working with Children Check numbers and expiries, and chases renewals well before the date rather than after it.

Version-control policies and handbook

Updates the employee handbook and individual policies when the client changes them, distributes the new version through the HRIS, and records who has acknowledged what so the acknowledgement trail is complete.

Run the offboarding checklist

Prepares the final leave balance and notice calculation for payroll to process, books the exit interview, builds the system access removal list for IT, and tracks return of laptop, keys, fuel card and uniforms.

Keep the WHS register current

Maintains the incident and hazard register, chases incident reports from supervisors while details are fresh, schedules toolbox talks and inductions, and tracks completion of mandatory training modules in the LMS.

Chase timesheets before cut-off

Works the exceptions in Deputy or Tanda — missing punches, unapproved shifts, breaks not taken, timesheets sitting with a manager — and clears them ahead of the payroll cut-off so the pay run isn't held up.

Build the monthly people report

Pulls headcount, starters and leavers, turnover by department, leave liability and training completion out of the HRIS and formats it into the pack the leadership meeting actually uses.

Triage the HR inbox

Answers first-line questions on leave balances, payslips and entitlements straight from the handbook, and passes anything touching performance management, grievances, disciplinary action or termination to the client's HR manager unanswered.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does a hr specialist cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the HR Specialist role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of a HR Specialist hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your HR Specialist will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.