HR Business Partner 14 month FTC

A day of play

PEOPLE LEADERSHIP

• Provide day-to-day leadership to the People Advisor Senior People Administrator HR & Recruitment Administrator Onboarding Administrator and Payroll Administrator.
• Set clear priorities objectives and expectations for the team ensuring workloads are managed effectively and service levels are consistently high.
• Coach develop and support team members through regular 1:1s performance reviews and development planning.
• Create a collaborative supportive and accountable team culture aligned to JAG values.
• Identify opportunities to improve capability resilience and succession within the People team.

HR & EMPLOYEE RELATIONS

• Lead and manage employee relations cases end-to-end ensuring outcomes are fair timely and legally compliant.
• Provide expert advice and coaching to HEWs and GMs on performance absence disciplinary and grievance matters.
• Support managers to handle people issues confidently and consistently in line with JAG policies and values.
• Maintain high standards of documentation reporting and case management identifying themes and trends.

HR OPERATIONS & PAYROLL

• Oversee day-to-day HR operations ensuring people processes are efficient accurate and consistently applied.
• Provide leadership and oversight of payroll activity ensuring accurate data submission timely processing and issue resolution.
• Work with your team to improve systems workflows and reporting to enhance efficiency and data quality.
• Ensure compliance with employment legislation internal policies and audit requirements.

SAFER RECRUITMENT & ONBOARDING

• Lead and assure safer recruitment practices across the business ensuring safeguarding and compliance standards are met.
• Oversee recruitment and onboarding activity ensuring a smooth timely and positive experience for candidates and new starters.
• Ensure all pre-employment checks vetting and right-to-work requirements are completed accurately and on time.
• Champion a consistent welcoming and high-quality onboarding experience across JAG UK.

BUSINESS PARTNERING

• Act as a trusted HR partner to Head of Education & Wellbeing and General Managers supporting delivery of people priorities.
• Use people data and insight to inform workforce planning engagement and retention strategies.
• Support organisational change growth and restructure activity with clear compassionate and compliant HR guidance.
• Build strong credible relationships across the business providing both support and appropriate challenge.

PEOPLE & CULTURE

• Champion JAGs values behaviours and people-first culture in everything you do.
• Support initiatives that enhance engagement wellbeing and retention.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and continuous improvement of HR policies tools and training.
• Role-model professionalism integrity and care in all interactions.

For your new adventure

• You love people its wired into your DNA.
• Youve led a high performing teams & you love to develop from within
• Whilst not a deal breaker youve got your CIPD level 5 (or equivalent experience)
• Youre commercially minded you understand the financials and how our people contribute to this.
• You think outside of the box and are always looking for better ways to do things.
• Youre as cool as a cucumber in a high pressure fast paced environment.
• Youre a big kid at heart.
• You have aligned experience. You love to create meaningful moments for people.
• You are driven. Youre perceptive you ask questions and you strive to understand.
• You enjoy solving problems. You dont get flustered easily. Youre comfortable managing your time and can be counted on to skilfully handle feedback and complaints.
• You are people-focused. Youre warm honest and genuine.
• You get a kick out of creating unexpected experiences which make people go wow!
• Youre cool under pressure. You are self-assured. You listen intently.
• You speak eloquently. You can explain just about anything to anyone and youre comfortable communicating at all levels. Youre authentic when you express yourself. People trust you.
• You have a can-do approach. You think on your feet. Switching up tasks and juggling multiple priorities comes naturally to you.

What success looks like

• Be Considerate Show care for others and the world around us
• Be Passionate Love what we do and inspire others
• Be Courageous We are role models with great responsibility
• Make a Difference Create brighter futures for all

Mission Accomplished

• Employee Relations Effectiveness
• Manager Capability & Confidence
• People Operations & Payroll Accuracy
• Safer Recruitment & Onboarding Compliance
• Team Performance & Development
• Process Improvement & Efficiency
• Engagement & Retention Outcomes

What we offer you

• The chance to build brighter futures for children.
• Access to 24/7 Employee Assist Programs through Health Assured.
• Discounted wrap around school care and holiday club (if you have little ones).
• A little bit of security for your future with a workplace pension scheme.
• A place where you can let your personality shine.
• Rewards for recommending your family and friends to come and join the family.
• Paid training and regular personal and professional development.
• Fun. Its what big kids do. We like to be 100% human rather than corporate.
  
   

Additional Information :

Please note this role is remote-based; we are looking for someone who lives within a 1-hour commute of Wokingham where our head office is based. The contract for this position is for a fixed period of 14 months. 

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Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time