Are you a business-focused HR Advisor with experience of working autonomously on complex cases?  Are you discreet and professional, with up-to-date knowledge of employment law and best HR practice and experience of business partnering?

We are recruiting for an experienced HR Advisor to join our growing HR Advisory team, providing professional HR guidance and support to specific business areas of Dogs Trust (in this case covering our Rehoming Centres in Kenilworth, Loughborough, Manchester, Merseyside and Shrewsbury, as well as other departments), working closely with relevant managers to enable them to achieve their objectives and continuously improve the performance of the work areas and their teams. 

Dogs Trust is the largest dog welfare charity in the UK with a nationwide network of rehoming centres and charity shops. Last year, Dogs Trust centres cared for over 15,000 dogs; we never put a healthy dog down.

HR is a growing team of 30 friendly, hardworking colleagues delivering a first-class service to the organisation and its 1,400+ employees in more than 70 workplaces.  We work across all HR activities including recruitment, pay and benefits, payroll, learning and development and employee engagement, as well as providing pragmatic and principled guidance on people issues.

In this key role, you will support your business area through partnering, coaching, advice and guidance, and you will play a critical role in identifying opportunities and maximising skills development.  You will lead on high level and complex casework and will guide less experienced members of the HR team. 

Ideally qualified to CIPD level 5, you will have an exceptional track record of successfully analysing and resolving HR issues, exercising good judgement at all times.  You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with good decision-making ability and, as you will need to draft complex correspondence, excellent written English is essential in this role.

The successful candidate will undertake a senior role within the HR team and be self-motivated, working collaboratively with the rest of the advisory team and actively managing their area and individual casework.  Travel to other sites throughout the UK is an essential part of the role, with occasional overnight stays.

To apply for this position please click the APPLY NOW button.  Our application process requires you to submit a CV and cover letter explaining your interest and suitability for the role.

Please note that we will be reviewing applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should a successful candidate be found.  Therefore, please don't delay in submitting your application!

We are recruiting for an experienced HR Advisor to join the Brentwood Diocese providing support and guidance to Diocesan departments, Parishes and employees in all aspects of human resources.

As HR Advisor you will be CIPD qualified, have sound knowledge of current employment legislation and broad generalist HR experience. In this role you will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining constructive working relationships with senior managers and clergy.
• Providing knowledgeable and professional advice to the organisation in respect of HR policy and procedures.
• Developing, reviewing and updating HR policies and procedures.
• The provision of advice and support for all employee relations matters including disciplinary and grievance.
• Implementing absence management procedures and monitoring of employee absence.
• Overseeing recruitment and induction of new staff across the Diocese ensuring all appropriate processes are followed and documentation provided.

This is an essential role within the Diocese with interesting opportunities. This is a full time role however a Job Share will also be considered. If you believe, you have the necessary knowledge and experience to be an asset to our team we would like to hear from you. 

Applicants are asked to submit a CV and covering letter and should highlight how their skills and experience meet the requirements of the role.

Payroll Administrator

Based: Central London

Salary: to £10,800 (FTE = £27,000) per annum pro rata. Over two days, 14 hours per week. 

Contract: Permanent.

Start date: asap

The Postal Museum opened just over two years ago, and since then has had enormous success with over 350,000 people through the doors. They’ve experienced our Museum, telling the story of the postal service across 400 years; Mail Rail, our underground railway which at one point carried more than 4 million letters a day; the Discovery Room, where they can track down the story of their postal ancestors; learning programmes; tours; community programmes and more. In the time we’ve been open we’ve been nominated for numerous awards, had brilliant feedback on Trip Advisor, and attracted a much more diverse group of visitors than many other museums.

We are now recruiting for a highly organised Payroll Administrator to join our Human Resources team based in our friendly, busy office in Clerkenwell, 10 minutes’ walk from Kings Cross station. This would be a great opportunity for an individual who has a passion or interest in working in Payroll for a not-for-profit organisation. You will be responsible for running TPM’s payroll with our external provider (Moorepay and with support from the Financial Accountant); ensuring the timely and accurate processing of our Payroll; being a first point of contact for Payroll and other HR queries from across the organisation. You will also ensure that all data is stored in a secure and organised fashion.

You will Need: 

• Substantial and recent experience of running payroll and using payroll software systems
• Demonstrable knowledge of working with payments and making deductions from salaries (e.g. taxation, maternity leave, pensions administration)
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail
• Competent with spreadsheets and producing reports
• Experience of working to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Sound administrative experience
• Ideally experience of using Moorepay

Entering into an exciting period of growth and transition, Dementia UK now requires an exceptional HR Business Partner to join their HR Team. Based at our London offices and reporting to the Head of HR, you will play a critical role in facilitating the delivery of our People Strategy. As an innovative, solutions-driven business partner, you will need to demonstrate your ability to hit the ground running, enabling the HR Team to deliver credible and highly professional service to this growing organisation.

This role requires a highly skilled and experienced HR generalist with a proven track record of successfully working in a People setting with a strong delivery focus, together with up to date and in-depth knowledge of employment legislation in the UK. A creative thinker who enjoys developing new and innovative ways of addressing people challenges, you will have excellent attention to detail with an ability to adapt quickly and deal with conflicting priorities from different stakeholders. Confident in your ability to deal with operational and strategic objectives whilst working to tight deadlines during this dynamic period for the Charity. You will have an ability to build strong stakeholder relationships at all levels of the organisation, whilst being able to evolve and adjust your ways of working to suit our diverse workforce.

The ideal candidate will demonstrate evidence of delivering significant and sustainable business benefits through change, together with experience of developing and implementing an effective reward strategy to strengthen the Employee Value Proposition and implement Salary Benchmarking throughout the Charity. An ability to work with the business to embed the values and culture of the Charity, together with previous experience of working with a clinically focussed organisation would be highly advantageous. 

In return, we will provide you with the appropriate level of support and development necessary for you to deliver your role successfully.

For further information, please download the job description.

Please note that only applications including a CV, covering letter and answers to the attached questions will be considered for interview.

Interviews: Thursday 12th of March and Tuesday 17th March.

I am currently working with a charity organisation based in Sidcup, who are looking to recruit a HR Manager on an 18-month fixed term contract.

The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive HR transactional service to the group through the management and leadership of the team.

The main accountabilities held within this role will include:

• Ensure the organisation is provided with a high-quality HR transactional service that meets the needs of the organisation through the management of the HR Admin team
• Provide advice and guidance to managers and employees on HR
• To keep up to date with current employment legislation and assist the HR Shared Services Manager with the reviewing and drafting of policies 
• Assist the HR Shared Services Manager with initiatives, undertaking research
• Manage the employee life cycle working with the Recruitment and Payroll functions
• To build excellent internal relationships across the Group to understand their HR requirements and ensure they are achieved
• Undertake reporting analysis of data from the HRIS

Experience desired: 

• Employee life cycle from onboarding, changes to contracts and leaving the organisation etc
• Knowledge of HR administration processes and compliance
• Knowledge of safer recruitment practices
• IT literate with experience of HR Information Systems
• Managing a team
• Knowledge of UK & European employment legislation, including the application of TUPE Regulations
• Knowledge and understanding of HR best practices, and how to apply these to support the Group’s strategic plan 

If you are looking for your next assignment and have the relevant skills and experience for the role, please submit your application ASAP to be considered for this exciting opportunity.

Are you an organised administrator with an interest in Human Resources? Would you like to work for a small but impactful charity?

The Children’s Literacy Charity provides one to one literacy support for disadvantaged children in London primary schools.  We are looking for a HR Administrator to work in our office for 2 days a week.  Flexible working will be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining efficient and effective administrative support, in keeping with the nature of a tightly run, small charity
• To work collaboratively with members of the office team to ensure the organisation is run smoothly and efficiently.

In particular to take responsibility for: 

• the HR policy and practice including with respect to volunteers
• the maintaining of effective office systems and processes 
• providing administrative support for other charity functions including IT functions

Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent personal organisation with a high attention to detail. Able to manage a number of tasks at any one time.
• Good teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills and ability to interact well with staff and visitors to the office and tutors in schools.

For more details on how to apply please go to The Children’s Literacy Charity website

Salary £26,000 - £28,000 FTE depending on experience

Closing date:  4th March 2020

Interviews will be on 11th March and 12th March 2020

Overall Purpose

To actively participate in Baca’s vision to see a world where young force migrants are welcomed, feel safe and have hope to rebuild their lives for a better future. To support this vision by providing effective and efficient administrative support for the Finance and HR functions of the organisation.  The role will also have other general administrative responsibilities alongside the finance and HR responsibilities.

Personal Specification

Baca is looking for someone who can help the organisation with the finance and HR administration. The role does include other general admin responsibilities. The successful applicant will be motivated and passionate about the work that Baca does and the young people in our care. They will be able to subscribe Baca’s values and demonstrate them in their behaviours. They will be very organised, practical, and able to get on with tasks that need doing on a day to day basis, managing a varied and busy workload. They will be methodical, follow processes, pay attention to detail and able to deal with a variety of paperwork. They will be very approachable and enjoy working as part of a team and supporting others.

The successful applicant will have a personal style that is in line with Baca’s vision and values. Someone who is supportive, approachable, responsible, reliable and personable.

Qualifications/Knowledge/Experience

• Experience of providing administrative support for an organisation is desirable.
• Basic Accounting and Bookkeeping experience preferable but not essential.
• Strong ability to use computers well, Microsoft Office and on-line email systems.
• Experience of using Sage or other finance function (including Payroll function) is desirable.
• Experience of prioritising workload to meet competing deadlines and in a flexible way to the changing demands of Baca’s work.
• Advocate of customer care including experience of dealing with a range of customer queries and concerns in a professional manner.

Skills/Abilities

• Excellent personal organisation with a high attention to detail. Able to manage a number of tasks at any one time.
• Good teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills and ability to interact well with staff, contractors and visitors to the office and other properties.

Other Expectations

• Commitment to work within the aims, values and ethos of the organisation.
• Appointment is subject to a satisfactory Enhanced DBS check.
• Have a genuine concern for and commitment to asylum seekers/refugees, young people and UASCs in particular.
• Ability and commitment to work within a framework of confidentiality and anti-discriminatory practice at all times.

Please download Job Description for more details. Enhanced DBS check will be required. Interviews will be on Monday the 9th of March 2020.

Thera Trust

Thera trust is the parent company of Thera Group; a charitable group of companies that supports people with a learning disability. Our unique leadership and structure includes people with a learning disability. Through this we can demonstrate that people with a learning disability can be leaders in society, but we can’t do this without you! Thera Trust is now looking for an experienced Payroll Project and Quality Coordinator to join our Payroll team based in Grantham.

About the Role 

The main purpose of this role is to support the pay team in reviewing all processes, with a view to continuously improve the service function, validate and train all pay team members to ensure compliance.

Your Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience of end to end process mapping, procedure creation and validation in line with current legislation and industry best practise
• Attention to detail and problem-solving skills
• Motivated, enthusiastic and positive individual
• Flexible and adaptable to change
• Professional attitude
• Ability to extract detail from others to ensure accurate documentation
• Good organisational skills
• Excellent telephone manner & communication skills
• CIPP Qualification or equivalent experiance
• Work effectively within a team
• Competent IT skills, particularly Microsoft Vision
• Educated to GCSE (or equivalent) standard with strong English & Mathematic skills

Desirable

• Experience in a similar industry sector or role

What are the Benefits?

• 25 days holiday + 8 days bank holiday
• Contributory workplace pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee support line to support you and your family
• Support in gaining professional qualifications
• Continuous on the job training is provided

*We reserve the right to close this advert before the closing deadline if we interview and offer the right candidate*

Salary:                             £36,197 - £37,510 per annum

Hours:                             40 per week, all year round

Start date: As soon as available

Closing date:                     11am, Monday 24th February 2020

Location:                         Hertfordshire - Primarily Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead, but with some support to schools in Bushey and Watford. Occasional travel to London is also required

A unique opportunity for an experienced HR Advisor to provide a people-related support function to our growing family of Hertfordshire Academies.

The Role

We are currently looking to appoint an experienced HR Advisor to provide an effective people-related support function to our Hertfordshire Academies. In this role you will be the key point of contact for Academy Office Managers and Principals/ Head Teachers for any HR queries, including contracts, terms and conditions, payroll, HR policies and entitlements, escalating to the HR Manager and HRBP as and when necessary.

As HR Advisor you will provide timely advice on HR issues and manage a varied Employee Relations case load, ensuring compliance with legislation and HR policies and procedures. You will also be responsible for reviewing and improving the HR operating model within the academies you work with, designing tools and templates to support staff in undertaking different HR activities, as well as training and ongoing support to Office Managers.

This role sits within our central HR team, and is a mobile position that will work across our Hertfordshire secondary schools, primarily in Hemel Hempstead and Stevenage, but with some support to schools in Watford and Bushey as required. The post holder will also be required to travel to London for team meetings and to afford occasional support to London schools, as and when necessary.

The Organisation

Future Academies is a multi-academy trust (MAT) and family of nine schools in London and Hertfordshire. As a MAT working predominantly with schools located in disadvantaged areas, our motto, libertas per cultum (freedom through education), is always at the heart of what we do. We believe that all young people, regardless of their background or circumstances, are able to achieve, given the right support. Therefore, we are committed to providing each and every young person under our care with a broad, balanced and rigorous education, within a disciplined but caring environment.

Our Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a highly organised and customer focussed HR professional to join us in this exciting position. To be successful in this role you will require:

• Knowledge of, and preferably experience, of the schools/education sector (highly desirable).
• Experience of supporting and advising managers on a wide range of employment and people management matters.
• Experience of supporting organisational change.
• A flexible and ‘can do’ approach to work.
• Able to work independently on own initiative.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to engage with a range of stakeholders.

What we can offer you

• The opportunity to work across a diverse partnership of schools.
• A commitment to extensive CPD opportunities.
• A generous holiday entitlement and LGPS pension.
• A free lunch when working from our central office in Pimlico.
• Access to a range of benefits through our employee benefit scheme, Perkbox.
• The exciting potential to have a positive impact upon the lives of children and young people across our MAT.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please download the application form from our website and return it by 11am, Monday 24th February 2020.

This post is covered by Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent and spoken English is an essential requirement for this role.

Future Academies is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. We expect all staff to share this commitment and to undergo appropriate checks, including enhanced DBS checks.

Summary

We are the Equality and Human Rights Commission. We stand up for freedom, compassion and justice in changing times. We do it by promoting and upholding equality and human rights ideals and laws across England, Scotland and Wales. Our work is driven by a simple belief; if everyone gets a fair chance in life, we all thrive.

Job description

We are now looking for someone exceptional to join our People team who shares our values of fairness, dignity and respect and can work with us to build upon our achievements and ensure our vision becomes a reality.

This is an excellent opportunity for candidates wanting to pursue a career within Human Resources (HR). Working in the Corporate Services network, you will have a key role in the People team ensuring the successful delivery of our frontline HR operations and also in supporting the work of our people strategy. You will work as part of a small team, which means that you will work proactively and flexibly to ensure we are able to respond quickly to workload demands and changing priorities.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience/grade profile

Key to success will be your experience of working within a HR environment, ideally within central government or the wider public sector, effective stakeholder relations, a flexible and an adaptable working style.

The successful candidate will need to be resilient, well organised, and be professional and confident with the ability to manage a busy workload with conflicting priorities. As a representative of the People team, excellent communications skills and the ability to remain calm and reliable under pressure and challenge are also essential.

You’ll join a team in which collaboration counts, and your contribution and ideas matter. You will be encouraged to work flexibly, think critically, learn fast and be creative to help strengthen the skills and capabilities of our workforce.

Please access the Knowledge, Skills and Experience and Grade Profile documents at the bottom of the advert for all of the criteria that you will be assessed on.

Responsibilities

Working closely with our HR Business Partners you will be involved in a variety of HR work including:

• undertaking a breadth of routine HR administrative and service delivery tasks involving the end to end employee life cycle, including recruitment and selection, on-boarding new employees and payroll related activity.
• providing first line HR advice, guidance and support to maintain a customer focused HR service across the Commission
• working closely with our HR Business Partners on a range of HR matters and to ensure the provision of a quality, proactive HR service
• contributing to project work within our People Programme for example supporting work on the development of our HR policies
• working closely with our HR Data and Systems specialist in contributing to the production of workforce metric reports.
• Co-ordinating and resolving pension related queries
• Co-ordinating and maintaining records management for the team, to ensure compliance with EHRC retention schedules, GDPR and Freedom of Information principles and provisions.

The Commission welcomes applications from everyone and we value diversity in our workforce. We are committed to being an exemplar employer with an inclusive culture, developing a workplace environment where all our employees are treated with dignity and respect. This is central to our recruitment process, therefore we actively encourage applications from candidates with diverse backgrounds.

For this vacancy, we actively encourage applications from disabled people and those with long term health conditions, who are currently underrepresented in our workforce at the Associate level.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission is an accredited Disability Confident employer and as such, operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) for candidates with a disability.

We are committed to the employment and career development of disabled people. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process and, if you join us, to where you work and to your work arrangements. We offer disabled applicants the option of requesting that their application is considered under the terms of our Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS).

To be invited to interview or assessment under this scheme, you must show in your supporting statements that you meet the minimum criteria for the role. The minimum is 60% of the shortlisting score across all essential criteria, except when it has been exceptionally agreed that this percentage score be lowered. A request under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme does not guarantee you an interview or a job. At interview, the highest scoring appointable candidate will be offered the post.

Should you wish to apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme or request a reasonable adjustment, please indicate this on your application form. Read more information about our Guaranteed Interview Scheme on the Equality and Human Rights Commission website.

If you would prefer to discuss this with us or require additional support, please contact us by email at recruitment.

The salary for this role is £23,246.60.

Those joining us from with the Civil Service on a level transfer may be offered their current salary, where possible, and only where the requirements of our starting pay guidance are met.

• A range of flexible working patterns
• Annual leave entitlement of 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees), plus 8 Bank Holidays per year
• Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme and partnership pension schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme, and a range of employee wellbeing offerings
• Season ticket loans
• Employee Benefits Portal, including cycle to work, charity giving, gym discounts and employee retail savings
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Favorable enhanced parental leave options
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to Civil Service Learning and a range of comprehensive Learning and Development options
Access to Civil Service Jobs portal

This is an exciting opportunity for a bright and capable HR Officer with a particular interest and/or experience in recruitment, and who’s equally willing and keen to apply their skills in other aspects of delivering effective HR operations. We are looking for a self-motivated, well organised, adaptable and resourceful individual, who has the skills, interest and a true “can do” attitude to be able to quickly make the role their own.

About Forum for the Future

Forum for the Future is a leading global sustainability non-profit. For over 20 years we’ve been working in partnership with business, governments and civil society to accelerate the shift toward a sustainable future. We specialise in addressing critical global challenges by catalysing change in key systems.

We are a global team of 80+ people, with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Mumbai, and are in an exciting growth phase with expansion in new markets in Asia and the United States.
 

About the team

As International Resources team, we work as a close knit, dynamic, flexible and supportive team.  We are looking for a member of the team who is keen to roll up their sleeves and make use of their diverse skills to support our teams in their delivery of impactful solutions to global systems challenges.

We at Forum for the Future believe in being courageous, adaptive, inquisitive, respectful, empathetic and playful.

About the role

This is an exciting role where you will take the lead on developing, implementing and maintaining an effective and robust recruitment service across our four offices. You will be the first point of contact for the recruiting teams and candidates to enhance our ability to attract and recruit talented people from diverse backgrounds. You will actively contribute to the development of our global recruitment policy and practice in support of our organisational objectives.  Working closely with the group HR Manager, in this varied role you will also be involved in project work, process development and ongoing HR administration to ensure smooth transactions.

About you

To succeed in this role you will be a motivated and confident HR professional with a strong team ethos and willingness to learn and apply your skills and abilities in novel ways. You will have worked in a similar role where you gained experience of or had exposure to recruiting across the time zones and cultures, using your creative problem solving and digital skills to reach out to new audiences. You will also bring your skills and experience of process improvement, design and implementation, including familiarity with harnessing technology to enable improved user experience and ease of administration. You will be familiar with employment regulations, good practice in HR, and stakeholder management. You enjoy keeping a pulse on current HR trends and how they can be applied and adapted for the benefit of organisations. The most important thing is that you can bring ideas to the table and are truly passionate about people and supporting them in their delivery of impactful results.

Our ideal colleague will have had previous experience working within a not-for-profit organisation, and has a personal interest in sustainability issues.

Together we can reinvent the way the world works.

Creative Support is a national, fast growing not-for-profit organisation providing support to individuals with a wide range of care needs. We are committed to providing responsive, person centred care that promotes the independence, wellbeing and social inclusion of the people we support.

We are now recruiting for a highly organised Administrator to join our Payroll team based in our friendly, busy office in the town center of Stockport, 5 minutes’ walk from the train station. This would be a great opportunity for a graduate or entry-level individual who has a passion or interest in working in Payroll for a not-for-profit organisation. You will be responsible for managing the flow of data into the Payroll department, and the organization and quality checking of this data, as an integral part of the timely and accurate processing of our payrolls for over 5,000 employees. So we can ensure that all employees are paid accurately and on time. You will also ensure that all data is stored in an organized and accessible fashion for ease of use.

We are looking for an individual who either has experience in an office environment or is looking to start and develop their career in payroll in a busy office environment. You will have a good working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Word, Excel and Access.  You will be able a highly organized individual who is able to work to deadlines and provide excellent customer service.

Our range of employee benefits includes:

• Guaranteed Contracted Hours, 37.5 hours per week

• A bright, modern open plan office environment

• Free life assurance

• Pension with company contribution

• A range of employee discounts

Finance and Human Resources Officer,  22.5 hours per week

Rising Sun Domestic Violence and Abuse Service is an independent charity in Kent working to prevent domestic abuse and improve the lives of survivors and their children suffering from its effects. We have an ambitious vision for a world in which women and children live free from actual or threatened domestic abuse and all forms of violence.

The Finance and HR Officer will play a crucial role in supporting our delivery and fundraising teams to carry out their work. We are looking for an organised and reliable individual with great problem solving and team working skills to co-ordinate our finance and HR functions.

If you would like to be part of our team, we would love to hear from you.

Established in 1965, the GSA is a unique specialist students’ union, with a small, dynamic team of staff and officers. 

Reporting to the CEO, the HR Advisor will be responsible for ensuring effective and efficient management of all aspects of HR operations including development and implementation of HR related company policy and procedure; overseeing a high standard of employee induction and review process;  and having oversight and a first point of call on HR policies and Salaries administration. 

It's an exciting time to join the GSA. With a relatively new Vice Chancellor at the University of York currently working to define the University’s new Vision and ten year plan, the GSA will be working to develop its own new three year student led three year strategy covering 2021-24. 

The GSA has a turn-over of around £300,000 funded by an annual subvention from the University and around £20,000 self-generated income.