HR Consultant

The opportunity 

As UAL responds to a changing world, we have launched a new 10-year strategy. We are investing in our people and setting challenging goals. With this comes career defining opportunities for HR professionals to deliver the multiple programmes of work ahead of us, that will enable UAL to meet the needs and expectations of our staff and students and deliver social purpose through creativity.

We now have an opportunity for a HR Consultant to help deliver the people strategies at UAL. The HR Consultant provides professional HR advice and expertise to client groups across the University. You will be joining a diverse and friendly team where HR Consultants and HR Business Partners work seamlessly to support their client groups through strategic change programmes, employee relations case work and provide HR expertise and advice to a range of stakeholders.

About you

A key part of this role is to provide advice, coaching, and guidance interventions to individuals and help resolve complex issues including employee relations casework and people related problems across the University. Our ideal candidate will be CIPD-qualified to graduate level or equivalent, or working towards this, experienced in a unionised environment, dealing with employee relations casework and change. 

You will be an excellent and influential communicator, solution/outcome focused and with a proven track record of successful customer service, task management, teamwork and problem-solving skills.

We are UAL 

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures. 

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

For further details and to apply please click the apply button. 

Closing date: 19 February 2025, 23:55. 

If you have any general questions or have accessibility needs, please contact psostaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

Our culture

UAL is committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments for all staff and students to work and learn – a university where we can be ourselves and reach our full potential. We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and Staff Support Networks. We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, including race, disability, age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion and belief, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, and caring responsibility.

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