Associate HR Business Partner

UCL HR is a service driven function of approximately 90 HR professionals, working closely alongside our eleven academic faculties and our nine professional services divisions to understand and collaborate on their priorities, opportunities and challenges. Our culture and interactions with each other are underpinned by our values, and we seek out innovative ways to demonstrate our commitment to inclusion and diversity by removing barriers and actively promoting the diversity of our community.

About the role

It is an exciting time to be joining the UCL HR Business Partnering team. We have recently gone through a small review to further enhance our business partnering offer to our faculties and professional services divisions. In doing this we have embedded a new entry-level role of Associate HR Business Partner into each of our HRBP teams. This role also introduces a new career pathway within HR business partnering and signals the start of a fulfilling and rewarding career for members of our team.

We are hiring an Associate HR Business Partner to provide support across the Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Laws and the Institute of Education.

This role requires support for the implementation of people-focused initiatives and activities within the client group. The postholder will work closely with local HR-focused staff within the client group and with Business Partners from across the HR Business Partnering team.

We are operating hybrid working within the HR Division and you will have the opportunity to work remotely for up to 3 days a week if you wish. You must be available to work on site on Mondays and one other day of the week.

We are a very friendly and supportive team and look forward to receiving your application.

About you

We are looking for a candidate with experience of advising and handling a range of complex HR issues (e.g. disciplinaries, grievances, change management, TUPE). The successful HR professional will have the ability to work effectively in a Human Resources environment of a complex organisation. They will have outstanding organisational skills and be used to providing high-quality HR administrative support. They will have a track record of providing high-quality advice to managers on a range of HR policies, procedures, and best practices.

We are also looking for an HR professional with experience in designing and delivering training workshops on HR-related topics. We are looking for a calibre who can build and develop effective working relationships with managers and staff, which will allow the role holder to give day-to-day HR advice and guidance to managers and staff and have an impact in influencing and supporting managers to achieve their local and corporate objectives.

The successful candidate will be someone who can evidence strong alignment to the person specification, as well as experience and expertise in the following areas:

• The provision of reactive line manager support and advice, including employee relations and data analysis for their client group.
• Supporting the management of organisational change processes.
• Co-ordinating and undertaking job evaluation/grading.
• Designing and jointly delivering individual or group workshops on HR procedures and policies.

The successful candidate will support our HRBPs and Senior HRBPs by partnering with junior/middle managers and local HR colleagues in the following group of world and sector-leading faculties:

• Laws: This faculty is one of the leading centres of legal education in the world, combining a strong theoretical foundation in the law with practical teaching from world-leading academics and practitioners.
• Arts & Humanities: Ranked 6th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2024), the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at UCL is recognised globally for both its teaching and research excellence.
• Social & Historical Sciences: This faculty is intellectually diverse and widely regarded as world leading, with the 2022 Times Higher World University Rankings placing our social sciences 13th in the world and our arts and humanities disciplines 5th.
• IOE: IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, is a world-leading centre for research and teaching in education and social science - ranked number one for education worldwide since 2014 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject.

Your application must include a CV and supporting statement and it will be assessed on how well you evidence the essential and desirable criteria in the job description.

Please see JD and person specification for more information.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service

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Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here .