HR Operations Manager

HR Operations Manager

Start date: ASAP

Duration: Fixed-term for 12 months

Salary: Circa GBP38k DOE

Location: London (Waterloo) with occasional travel to our regional offices

The Challenge

The Challenge's vision is a more integrated society where there is understanding and appreciation of each other's differences. We believe everyone benefits when people of different ages, incomes and ethnicities come together. We seek to strengthen society by integrating people from all walks of life, building modern-day methods to bring people together. By mixing people from different backgrounds we aim to produce a more resilient society where we better know, understand and trust each other. We currently deliver our mission principally through three programmes that enable young people of all backgrounds to mix, work, develop and volunteer in their communities.

This also applies to the people we employ to work with us. As an equal opportunities employer our aim is to have a diverse workforce from all walks of life to reflect the communities we work in.

About the role

Reporting into the Senior HR Business and Projects Partner, you will be responsible for the management of all HR operational activities across the organisation, delivering effective and efficient processes, systems and compliance to provide an excellent experience for colleagues. Team, process and project management are key requirements for the role along with excellent attention to detail and a commercial approach backed up with strong HR knowledge. This role also needs a good understanding of HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide HR function on all people issues in line with legislation, regulation, company policy and best practice.
• Line manage HR Advisors and oversee employee relations cases, including disciplinary issues, grievances and absence management processes
• Manage the recruitment lifecycle and embedding of a new Applicant Tracking System (ATS) with improved processes within the organisation, ensuring all compliance matters are built into the culture of the organisation
• Manage and oversee all safer recruitment processes, in line with our policy
• Line manage HR Assistants to produce documents including offer letters, contracts, etc., ensuring the HR System Cascade is updated and maintained at all times
• Work with the payroll team to process weekly/monthly payroll and with HR Assistants be main point of contact for HR queries and advice, providing professional HR solutions, guidance and support across multiple locations in the UK
• Ensure all company policies and procedures are up to date and in line with UK employment law
• Support wider HR team in ad hoc projects and delivering a great experience and service to the organisation, e.g. restructures, TUPE, change management.

Skills and experience

Essential

• Passionate HR Generalist with over 5 years' experience in their field
• Experience of employment relations in the UK
• Experience on overseeing safer recruitment & safeguarding processes in a DBS-regulated and compliant environment, e.g. school/youth services provision/youth care provider
• Experience in delivery of core HR services processes
• Manager / Team Leader experience
• HRIS experience and knowledge
• The ability to work on their own initiative, solving problems as necessary
• The ability to work under pressure
• Effective communication skills with experience of working collaboratively
• Quality assurance, organisational skills and ability to manage conflicting priorities.

Desirable

• CIPD
• Experience of supporting the end of year salary review process
• Experience in the creation and implementation of project plans relating to restructures, consultations, redundancies and TUPE
• Project management
• IT skills, in particular strong knowledge of GoogleSuite.

Safeguarding Statement

The Challenge is committed to safeguarding and protecting the young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practice across our programmes.

We expect all staff and post holders to share this commitment to safeguarding by ensuring compliance with our policies and practices.

Employment Screening

The Challenge has a legal responsibility to ensure that all its employees have the legal right to live and work in the UK. Therefore, if you are made an offer of employment, this will be subject to The Challenge verifying that you are eligible to work in the UK before you start work.

Further Details

In addition to being part of a fun, dynamic and challenging workforce, we are proud to offer an attractive benefits package including contributory pension, Simplyhealth cash plan, Ride 2 Work, childcare vouchers, season ticket travel card loan etc. to eligible employees.

To apply: Please apply by sending your CV and cover letter by email via the button below, vacancy closes by 3 March 2019

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