HR Operations Advisor (Maternity Cover)

About us:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the HR operations team at King’s College London. We are seeking to appoint an experienced and highly motivated fixed term HR Operations Advisor to cover maternity absence. Working in a proactive and advisory space, supporting manager and our staff with their employment and contractual changes.

About the role:

You will have the opportunity to utilise your stakeholder management skills and spend time building relationships and working with managers to help support contractual changes and employment processes such as manager requests, family friendly policies and sickness.

The successful applicant will use their HR and employment knowledge to advice managers and employees to ensure successful implementation of contractual changes.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until for a period of up to one year or until the return of the substantive post holder.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Experience dispensing advice and guidance on policies and procedures including family friendly policies, sickness, and fixed term contracts
• Very strong customer service experience
• Strong attention to detail, low error rates and the ability to work to deadlines.
• Experience working independently with limited supervision, including experience in prioritising and working under pressure to tight deadlines
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
• Experience and ability to run high volume employment administration liaising with the employee and manager
• Previous experience as a HR /Payroll coordinator, advisor or consultant
• Experience with process improvement initiatives 

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of HEI or Clinical HR best practice with either Academic or Clinical policies
• HR systems/data bases
• CIPD Qualified
• Experience using a HR ticketing system

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information:

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

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