HR Officer United Kingdom
Job description
Permanent Contract, 36.5 hours per week (1.0 FTE)
Due to personal development opportunities, we have a role that has become vacant within the WMG team.
In this exciting and varied role, you will have the opportunity to utilise your HR knowledge on a daily basis, providing advice and guidance on a wide range of HR issues.
You will provide support to all aspects of the employee lifecycle under the direction of the HR Business Partner for WMG, supporting around 800 staff.
You will have relevant experience in an HR role within a complex organisation where you have developed and implemented creative solutions to business challenges using your influencing skills. You will have demonstrated excellent working relationships within a Business Partnership environment.
WMG is an academic department at the University of Warwick and is the leading international role model for successful collaboration between academia and the public and private sectors, driving innovation in science, technology and engineering, to develop the brightest ideas and talent that will shape our future.
Our research teams are headed by world class academics and outstanding engineers, dedicated to delivering transformational results in manufacturing and technology applications, and innovations that shape the future. With a real depth of fundamental scientific knowledge, we help solve operational and technical challenges, by both pushing the boundaries of technology and transferring knowledge into industries including automotive, aerospace, rail, and defence.
The successful candidate must possess a proven track record of delivering high quality HR support to a variety of stakeholders, ensuring professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality at all times.
In return for your commitment and drive, we offer you rewarding staff benefits. The package available includes access to a wide range of benefits which include an attractive pension scheme, 30 days holiday plus Christmas closure, some fantastic savings on a wide range of products and services, and excellent learning and development opportunities.
If you wish to discuss the role in more detail please contact Louise Ledden-Rocks, HR Manager in WMG at [email protected]
At WMG we are committed to supporting staff to achieve their potential. We currently hold the Athena SWAN Sliver Award, and the University of Warwick holds an Institutional Silver Award: a national initiative that recognizes the advancement of gender equality, representation, progression and success for all in academia. We are supportive of staff with caring responsibilities including a generous maternity/paternity/adoption/parental leave policy, onsite childcare facilities and the childcare vouchers scheme. We will consider applications for employment on a part-time or other flexible working basis, even where a position is advertised as full-time, unless there are operational or other objective reasons why it is not possible to do so.
Interview Date: TBC
Job Description
Job Purpose
To manage all aspects of HR, providing professional advice and guidance on HR-related matters to a variety of stakeholders within WMG, and liaising closely and effectively with the HR Business Partners and HR Manager.
Duties and Responsibilities
1. To provide professional advice and guidance on HR matters in line with up-to-date employment legislation, University policies and procedures, taking advice from the HR Business Partners and other central services. Such issues may include recruitment and selection, induction, probation, sickness absence management, performance management, disciplinary, grievance, equality and diversity, wellbeing, etc.
2. To work with the HR Business Partners to assist key stakeholders and the Senior Management team in case management such as performance, capability, conduct.
3. Providing advice on the process for fixed term contracts and redeployment to ensure best practice and compliance with employment law and University policy.
4. To support the implementation of department and University projects and initiatives as they arise, such as GDPR and E&D.
5. To support the HR Business Partners with staffing reviews and reorganisation, assisting with providing organisational structures, job evaluation and role description documentation, ensuring appropriate consultations with staff and trade unions have been undertaken and effectively communicated and that all necessary approvals have been sought.
6. To produce quarterly HR KPI reports with a view to influencing and driving future policy, behaviour and practices within the department.
7. To support the HR Business Partners in the development and implementation of the People Plan for WMG.
8. To collaborate with HR/Organisational and Development in order to implement a HR skills programme for all staff within WMG.
9. Any other duties commensurate with the scope and grade of the role.
