HR Business Partner

Vacancy terms: Full-time or job share, fixed term contract until 31 October 2025

Hours per week: 37.5

About the role

The University’s ‘People Strategy’ outlines ambitious plans to enhance the professional lives of our staff and aligns with the University Strategy, ‘Our Citizens’. As one of our HR Business Partners, you will play a vital role in the delivery and success of these initiatives and helping to value, nurture and celebrate our people to ensure we are all Citizens of Change.

Working on a hybrid basis with a minimum of three days a week on campus, you will advise, coach, influence and challenge senior stakeholders on significant HR issues and proactively influence a climate of change and alignment of schools/departments to the University’s strategic aims. Supported by a team of Senior HR Advisers, you will also be responsible for the delivery of a comprehensive and effective HR service to a designated area and for the provision of high quality, business focused and strategic level advice. This will include providing extensive guidance and support to the appropriate Head of College and their senior management team.

About you

You will be a Chartered Member of the CIPD, to Level 7 or equivalent, educated to degree level and demonstrate substantial experience of managing and implementing significant change projects and transformative processes. You will have experience of leading strategic and operational HR matters in a unionised environment within a large complex organisation.

Additional information

Informal enquiries are welcome and should be made to Clare Haynes, Assistant Director of HR (Business Partnering) on Clare.Haynes@leicester.ac.uk.

Applications for job share will be considered. 

First stage interviews will take place on 01 November 2024 via Microsoft Teams.

The University of Leicester has been changing the world, and changing people’s lives, for 100 years. When you join us, you’ll become part of a community of Citizens of Change, which includes not only our staff and our current students but also thousands of Leicester graduates around the world. 

As a diverse and forward-thinking employer, we embed the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion into everything we do. That includes not just our core missions of teaching and research, but also our support for staff, students and our local community. 

We’re committed to the wellbeing of all our staff and to the sustainability of our environment, on our campus and beyond. We offer a competitive salary package, excellent pension scheme and a generous annual leave allowance, along with opportunities to develop your career in a supportive and collaborative environment.

Advert closes midnight on: 27 October 2024

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