HR Business Partner (Change and Employee Relations)

Closing Date: 15 September 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR Business Partner (Change and Employee Relations) to join our self-managing People Team which is on a journey to be more agile, data driven and customer experience oriented. This role will be a fixed term contract until December 2025 covering maternity leave. Whilst this is a remote first role, there will be a requirement to attend the Farringdon office in London a minimum of 2-4 times per month.

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 purpose of this role is to work in partnership with the Executive Director for the division, with whom you partner, and their senior leaders as an integral part of the leadership team. You will be accountable for the creation, development, and delivery of People Plans in partnership with the division that meet their strategic needs.

Responsibilities

• Technical and strategic HR skillset – Provide expert advice, guidance and support on complex employee relations issues and change programmes – including restructuring and TUPE transfers
• Relationship management - Build and maintain trusting relationships and partnership with the 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 - Partner with the 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 contribute 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 - Using appropriate tools, ensure leaders are using people metrics to drive decision making and productivity
• Diversity & Inclusion - Plan and develop strategies to increase engagement and retention of employees in targeted, underrepresented groups

About you

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Significant experience in a HR Business Partner role with strong evidence of leading large-scale change and restructures in a complex organisation including TUPE
• Strong relationship building and communication skills including managing union relationships
• Strong evidence of technical expertise in complex ER case management including multiple, layered grievances and an in-depth understanding of legal issues and best practice
• Knowledge and understanding of UK employment law
• Evidence of role modelling and encouraging adult-adult behaviours to influence cultural change
• Evidence of placing ‘creating an amazing experience' at the heart of your work
• A willingness to be disruptive in your approach and upset the status quo
• 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
• Thinking at a strategic level, with a focus on outcomes in your delivery

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.

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:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

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.