HR in education comes with unique challenges, from managing complex organisational structures to maintaining accurate data across campuses and departments.
Navigo has worked with many schools and universities across Australia and New Zealand to help understand and streamline their workforce processes. With tools like org.manager, education HR teams can simplify data management, improve planning and make confident decisions using accurate, real-time insights.
Education leader’s that have worked with Navigo to elevate their workforce management strategy
Current challenges for Education HR teams
Navigating the education HR landscape presents several pressing challenges:
Organisational Complexity: Education institutions often have complex structures across multiple faculties, campuses and employee types. Without a clear visual of the organisational hierarchy, it becomes difficult to understand team layouts, reporting lines and staffing changes. This is especially important for managing acting roles and secondments, where HR and payroll need to track details like start dates, duration and the position being filled to ensure accurate pay and compliance.
No central dashboard for key workforce insights: Without a centralised dashboard, education HR teams often lack a quick, reliable way to view the overall structure of the organisation and track critical workforce metrics. This makes it harder to answer simple questions like “Where are our vacancies?”, “How many staff are on secondment?” or “Which departments are over capacity?”
Inaccurate or inconsistent employee data: When faculty and staff data lives across multiple systems, it’s hard to keep it clean and up to date. Errors, duplicates and outdated information can lead to incorrect reporting, payroll issues and missed insights. Without confidence in the data, it becomes difficult for HR teams to support decision-making or ensure compliance.
How Navigo is helping Education HR
Maintain accurate employee data for better decisions and compliance
Easily find and manage details of faculty, improving communication and efficiency.
Automate leave management to ensure smooth academic operations
Over the past 20+ years, we have focused on supporting educational institutions through digital transformation. We provide advanced org charts, workforce analytics and org design software, backed by an expert team specialising in technical payroll and HRIS database systems.
We have worked with a wide range of educational institutions, helping them streamline payroll, data cleansing, employee and position management, workforce modelling, compliance and reporting.
Our workforce visualisation software centralises important data from various sources into a single, unified system, ensuring you always have access to accurate and up-to-date information.
For educational HR teams, this means you can simplify many manual processes related to data visibility, org charting, reporting and workforce modelling. HR managers can see the big picture and make strategic decisions based on accurate, real-time information.
Visualisation examples that are proven to enable Education HR teams
Detailed organisational charts
Interactive org charts help education HR teams clearly visualise the structure of their institution. These charts display reporting relationships, department layouts and team connections, helping HR quickly understand who is where and how teams are organised. This supports better communication, decision-making and onboarding.
org.manager also highlights acting roles alongside substantive positions, showing who is temporarily in a role, how long they’ve been there and which role they’ve stepped out of. This visibility helps payroll teams process changes accurately and ensures HR can manage contracts and backfills without confusion.
HR Dashboards
org.manager dashboards bring your most important workforce metrics into a single, easy-to-navigate view. Instead of switching between systems or digging through spreadsheets, HR teams can instantly see headcount, vacancy rates, position counts and diversity stats in one place.
With custom dashboards tailored to education structures, you can track acting roles, leave balances, employment types and team-specific KPIs.
Data cleansing
org.manager’s data cleansing view gives HR teams a clear, actionable overview of data quality across their workforce systems. You can instantly identify issues like vacant positions, orphaned roles or outdated job details that often go unnoticed in spreadsheets.
Instead of waiting for audits or digging through multiple systems, HR can resolve inconsistencies on the spot. The search and filter functions make it easy to find and fix specific problems, keeping your workforce data clean, reliable and ready for reporting, payroll and planning. It’s a simple way to take control of your data without relying on manual processes.
Navigo’s security credentials
We are focused on protecting our customers’ data and information. Our flagship product, org.manager, is hosted by Navigo on Microsoft Azure (NSW, Australia). Azure Data Centres are ISO27001, IRAP & APRA Data Centre certified and accompanied by Navigo ISO27001 certified processes. We maintain a range of cyber security credentials, policies and industry engagement.
“Although we can produce advanced reports internally, we will commission Navigo again because of the speed and simplicity of their service.”
Andrew Robb, Manager, OH&S and Information
The University of Western Sydney
A better solution, built for Education HR teams
Navigo’s data visualisation solutions are specifically designed to assist utilities in managing complex workforce data across diverse payroll and HRIS systems. This technology enables you to maintain and enhance your data model throughout the ongoing transformation process in the utilities industry.
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