HR Partner in Hinxton

Location: Hinxton

Salary: £3,090 per month

Recruiter: EMBL

Job Hours: Full-time

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Your role

With an excellent understanding of the organisation, its strategy, and a very good understanding of the people challenges faced by the organisation, you will help your designated areas to create a culture and people approach and to identify people priorities to address future workforce needs.

Through providing HR guidance, analysing people metrics and trends as well as working with management to improve work relationships and productivity, you will impact all stages of the employee life cycle in our diverse and international organisation. No one day is the same and there is always something different happening but in particular, you will be responsible for the following:

Providing HR support on HR policies and practices that ensure fairness and expediency and providing partnership to the organisation to supplydeliver value added services by shaping the design and supporting the delivery of People Plans with a focus on providingdelivering what the organisation needs tactically to sustainably improve for the future.

Influencing and developing strong relationships with all stakeholders to proactively advise and coach managers on how the people agenda may be ‘worked’ to deliver success achieving high levels of trust, respect and professionalism

Challenging people managers to get to the root of people and business issues and supporting them in the effective staffing of their teams ensuring inclusivity in how we develop and who we promote

Bringing people expertise to develop solutions to help the organisation to deliver its strategy and being one step ahead in terms of understanding, data and insight (externally and internally) to role model HR skills and professionalism

Driving a culture of high performance where talent is recognised, stretched and poor performance managed

Collaborating across the HR function to develop integrated solutions and ensure execution for major people-centered projects and processes with a ‘one team’ approach that boost employee morale and satisfaction

Acting as change agent to oversee new processes, help drive end-user adoption of HR technology, tools and solutions and to drive other change management across the organisation.

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Closing date: 30 June 2024

Contract duration: 3 years (renewable upto 9 years)

Grading: Grade 5 - 6 (monthly salary starting at £3,090 - £3,456 after tax) + other paid benefits depending on personal circumstances

Reference number: EBI02260

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You have

We are looking for a proactive team player who is comfortable to engage with a wide range of audiences with a flexible, customer-focussed, and outcome-orientated approach able to excel in high-pressure situations. You are an authentic, collaborative and commercially minded professional with a healthy amount of ambition and determination.

As our ideal candidate, you are degree educated, have a professional qualification in Human Resource Management or completed an apprenticeship in Human Resources Management, Public/Business Administration or a related field.

Ideally, you have strong business partnering experience and project management, analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to drive decision-making and measure program effectiveness.

Being passionate about innovation, you are experienced in driving employee development and contributing to a positive learning culture with facilitation & communication skills and the ability to engage and inspire diverse audiences for change and transformation.

You bring energy, compassion and enthusiasm to the team and will be comfortable influencing change and dealing with people at all organisational levels to assume responsibilities with results-focus and with achievement of best practice top of mind.

With a commitment to providing exceptional customer service, you are able to effectively communicate and collaborate cross-functionally, building strong partnerships with colleagues of different cultural backgrounds. Internal stakeholder management capability as well as coaching skills have supported you when partnering with colleagues to solve problems, seize opportunities and advance the mission across an organisation whilst being skilled at engaging through difference and valuing bringing together multiple perspectives.

You are a curious quick learner who constantly looks for ways to improve, a critical thinker, a systems and process extraordinaire, and a thoughtful and consistent communicator with the ability to actively listen, network and benchmark good practice.

Motivated to make a difference with a pro-active approach, you bring good knowledge of principles of employment legislation (be it in any national system or in intergovernmental organisations), application and compliance, current issues and thinking in HR best practice.

You have demonstrated experience in navigating conflict and facilitating conversations with previous exposure to the development and implementation of HR initiatives to diverse, dispersed and dynamic teams.

You thrive when you can contribute creative resolutions to a diverse range of complex problems whilst keeping the best interest of the organisation in mind when seeking solutions.

You might also have

Bonus points:

Prior experience in using HRIS (Human Resources Information System)

Knowledge of HR processes and procedures in international organisations

Exposure to and work experience in a multicultural environment, ideally in a science organisation

Good knowledge of another European (such as French, German, Italian or Spanish) language

We encourage you to apply even if you are not sure if you meet all the requirements above. We believe candidates with all kinds of backgrounds can have a lot to offer, and we are looking forward to hearing from you!

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