HR Officer

Purpose of the post

This role will work as part of small but highly effective People Team and provide a wide range of HR support across the institute playing a key role in supporting delivery of the People strategy ensuring that HDR UK is able to achieve its ambitious vision and mission.

The HR Officer will be responsible for providing generalist HR support to recruitment and onboarding, employee relations, HR policies and process, wellbeing and engagement and learning and development and will be the first point of contact for general HR queries through management of both the recruitment and general people inboxes.

This role will also provide some operational support around facilities and health and safety and be the first point of contact for these areas.

The postholder will need to be flexible and able to manage multiple priorities and able to work with a wide range of stakeholders.

Main responsibilities

• Responsible for end-to-end recruitment of new staff, including drafting of job descriptions, managing the applicant tracking system, job advertising and setting up interviews.
• Inputting new starter information on the HR system (PeopleHR), ensuring a high level of accuracy
• Preparing all new starter employment contracts and managing the onboarding process
• Processing contract amendments on the HR system
• Preparing secondee contracts and being the first point of contact for secondee enquiries
• Being the first point of contact for managers and staff on a range of operational HR issues
• Handling employee relations casework at a level appropriate to the role
• Dealing with training enquiries and course applications, managing delegate lists, issuing joining instructions, preparing training materials and venues
• Supporting with preparing HR reports as and when required
• Managing staff induction programmes and delivering HR induction sessions
• Supporting with employee engagement and wellbeing activity
• Providing payroll support to the Finance team
• Supporting with operational facilities issues including health and safety, onsite inductions, managing our offsite storage unit, attending tenant’s meetings.
• Supporting with organising organisational away days
• Managing offboarding for staff, including exit interviews and return of equipment

Experience, Skills and Knowledge

• Experience of working in a generalist HR role with a broad understanding and interest in all key areas ideally at CIPD level 5 or working towards level 5 or with equivalent experience
• Experience of using HR systems - applicant tracking system, HR system and learner management system (training will be provided on specific systems)
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of UK employment law and regulations
• Excellent work planning and organisation skills, able to prioritise workload
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, Teams, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
• Confidence and accuracy when processing and inputting data
• The ability to act with integrity and maintain confidentiality
• A flexible and responsive approach to stakeholders
• A deadline driven approach and the ability to remain calm under pressure
• An interest in all key areas of HR – recruitment and onboarding, employee relations, reward and benefits, wellbeing and engagement, learning and development
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal and the ability to work with a variety of stakeholders at different levels

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.