Senior HR Business Partner

The role

Ready to elevate your HR career to new heights? Join us as a Senior HR Business Partner at the University of Bristol and be at the forefront of driving impactful change and shaping a thriving workplace.

In this dynamic role, you'll take centre stage in supporting the Heads of HR Business Partnering to shape and align people plans with our faculty strategy. You’ll also embrace the opportunity to lead a variety of cross-faculty projects, driving innovation and excellence across our organisation.

Your expertise in delivering a high-quality, credible, and responsive people management service will be the cornerstone of your success. As you build trusted relationships with stakeholders, you'll work closely with senior managers, empowering them with the confidence and competence to effectively tackle a diverse range of people management issues.

What will you be doing?

• You'll bring your solutions-focused approach to provide proactive people management advice and support.
• Your wide-ranging generalist experience will enable you to make a meaningful impact in critical areas like change management, employee relations, reward, recruitment, and management development.
• You’ll embrace the opportunity to lead and manage complex and escalated case work, offering invaluable advice, guidance, and coaching to university managers and team members.
• You’ll be a key player in shaping workforce plans and harnessing the power of HR MI data to provide insightful analysis and interpretation.
• Your expertise will be instrumental in advising on organisational reviews and driving strategic decisions.

You should apply if

• You have experience of working at an equivalent level or will have demonstrated the potential to do so.
• You have experience of managing complex people/HR matters, with strong communication skills and an ability to build effective and collaborative working relationships with managers at multiple levels within a complex environment.
• You have the ability to demonstrate flexibility in your approach, and be happy to work collaboratively as part of a supportive team.
• You have a pragmatic and solution focused approach will need to be applied and evidence of this will need to be demonstrated.

This is a hybrid role worked over a minimum of 3 days per week including Wednesday.

Apply now for the opportunity to join one of the UK's leading research universities (ranked 5th REF 2021), be part of Bristol's 2nd largest employer, enjoy hybrid working, and receive competitive pay, attractive pension scheme, generous benefits, and growth opportunities!

Additional information

For informal queries about the role, please contact Mel Wise - melanie.wise@bristol.ac.uk

Contract type: 21 hours per week with fixed funding until 31st July 2025.

Interview date: Expected to be Wednesday 24th July.

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on Sunday 14th July.

Our strategy and mission

We recently launched our strategy to 2030 tying together our mission, vision and values.

The University of Bristol aims to be a place where everyone feels able to be themselves and do their best in an inclusive working environment where all colleagues can thrive and reach their full potential. We want to attract, develop, and retain individuals with different experiences, backgrounds and perspectives – particularly people of colour, LGBT+ and disabled people - because diversity of people and ideas remains integral to our excellence as a global civic institution.

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