Senior HR Administrator, Full time, Fixed Term to 30 September 2025

The University of Roehampton is recruiting to the role of Senior HR Administrator (fixed term) to join our busy Human Resources team. The role of Senior HR Administrator is vitally important to the operations of the service and is a busy and varied role supporting a portfolio of academic and support services within a small team or across teams under the guidance of a HR Partner or Adviser.

This role is ideal for someone who has demonstrated excellent HR administration skills, thrives on delivering excellence & service improvement & has pride in their ability to multitask & provide support proactively to colleagues across the team & University. The successful candidate will co-ordinate many aspects of the team’s remit with an emphasis on supporting recruitment, on boarding and associated employee life cycle matters for substantive & atypical workers.

Key responsibilities will include recruitment, payroll, reviewing and actioning monthly reports, leading on DBS renewals, supporting Access to Work applications & claims, first line advice in relation maternity & paternity queries and employee relations queries and supporting HR Partners in preparing Certificate of Sponsorship applications along with required compliance & record keeping.

You will have the ability to work largely independently, often on your own initiative, juggling multiple tasks and working to tight time pressure. You must represent both the service and the University in a highly professional manner at all times.

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Professional Services/Support staff up to Grade RU6 have access to the Local Government Pension Scheme; and on RU7 and above, have access to the University’s Retirement Savings Group Pension Plan, a defined contribution scheme, provided by Royal London. Our full range of benefits are available here.

Further information can be found on the job description. If you would like to apply for this excellent opportunity, please click on ‘Apply’ button, above. If you have any specific questions on the role, please contact either Karen Chapman, Senior HR Partner Karen.Chapman@roehampton.ac.uk

The University is committed to promoting diversity and equality of opportunity and aims to create a culture and environment where students and staff are treated fairly. The University is an equal opportunities and ‘disability confident’ employer.

The closing date for completed applications is: Monday 2 December 2024

It is expected that interviews will be held on Tuesday 10 December 2024

To enable us to respond to the market, we may interview before the closing date, so please don’t hesitate to get your application completed.

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