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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a collaborative and influential HR Business Partner to join our People Team of the Future! If you're looking for a role with true agency and accountability in a highly driven, adult and agile team, we'd love to hear from you!

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About the role

The People Team at Save the Children UK has been on a journey to be more agile, data driven and customer experience oriented. This is an exciting opportunity to join our HR Business Partner team as we transition to a ‘self-managed' squad as a result of that transformation, and to act as a change agent to support people and culture development across the organisation.

As HR Business Partner, you will work in partnership with the Executive Director and senior leaders for the division with whom you partner, as an integral part of the leadership team. You'll be accountable for the creation, development, and delivery of People Plans in partnership with the division that meet their strategic needs.

This is a highly visible, customer facing role. You will think holistically about the strategy of the organisation and talent processes that support the organisation's goals and use champion the use of data and people metrics to drive decision-making!

Your key accountabilities will include:

• Relationship Management - Building and maintaining trusting relationships and partnership with your divisions' leadership team and other key stakeholders throughout the organisation to ensure that there is opportunity to influence key business decisions and shape the future direction of SCUK's cultural programme.
• HR Consultancy & Service Delivery - Partnering with your division to build a deep understanding of their strategic priorities, their people and culture to provide specialist or generalist HR solutions and advice tailored to their needs.
• Culture Development & Delivery - Actively contributing to the development and delivery of the organisation's cultural change programme, providing divisional and organisational insight to improve psychological safety and an adult-adult mindset.
• Data Insight - Ensuring leaders are using people metrics to drive decision making and productivity.
• Diversity and Inclusion - Planning and developing strategies to increase engagement and retention of employees in targeted, underrepresented groups.

About you

You'll be an experienced HR Business Partner, who places ‘creating an amazing experience' at the heart of everything you do and thrives on the diversity of people and perspectives to achieve amazing outcomes.

You'll be open to new ideas and bring a willingness to be disruptive in your approach, with a focus on continuous learning.

To be successful, you'll demonstrate:

• Evidence of championing and role modelling Adult and Agile ways of working that promote agency and accountability
• Experience of using and presenting data to inform organisational decisions
• Evidence of working within, and being able to navigate, a level of ambiguity
• Evidence of coaching, influencing and developing others
• Evidence of managing change in a complex organisation
• Evidence of technical expertise in ER case management and an in-depth understanding of legal issues and best practice
• Ability to think at a strategic level, with a focus on outcomes in your delivery
• Strong relationship building and communication skills
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission and values.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work.
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day. You can read more about our benefits here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month).

Note: Our People Team currently meets once a month at our office in Farringdon, so you'll need to be willing and able to travel to London at least once a month.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]