Do you want to contribute to driving HR service excellence and enhance employee experience with stakeholders in mind? Come and join the HR Team at Ambition Institute and contribute to our organisational success.
The role
We're looking for a talented individual with understanding of HR policies and employment law, to join the team on a permanent basis as HR Co-ordinator.
As HR Co-ordinator, you will be responsible for providing an efficient and customer focussed HR operations administration service.
You'll manage the HR processes associated with the full employee life cycle including probation, parental leave, flexible working requests, termination, and any contractual changes, including issuing accurate letters to employees and ensuring all relevant changes are reflected on payroll and appropriate HR systems are updated.
Who are Ambition Institute
A great teacher changes the future every day. Especially for children who have had a tough start in life, a teacher can be the critical factor in their success.
At Ambition Institute we help schools tackling educational disadvantage to keep getting better and help their teachers and school leaders to become more expert over time.
That’s how we’ll make sure every child gets a great education and the best possible start in life.
- We train teachers and leaders at all levels to get better at the things that make the biggest difference: what you teach, how you teach it, and how you create the conditions for schools to thrive.
- We share what works. Everyone can benefit from evidence of how great teaching and leadership can improve schools and change lives, so we connect people to the latest research and best practice.
- We champion every teacher and school leader’s potential to develop, as the driving force for sustainable school improvement.
We would like you to
- Support payroll submissions by collating accurate monthly payroll.
- Manage all aspects of HR operations administration and ensure all documentation and processes are fit for purpose. Act as a first point of contact for employee queries and respond to customers in a timely manner in line with organisational HR policies and employment legislations. Escalating any complex employee queries to a more senior member of the HR team.
- Contribute to HR service and process improvements and engage in suitable projects as assigned by the HR Business Partner (Operations).
- Develop a broad understanding of the duties and contribute to business continuity by providing cross-team working support as necessary.
Working in a hybrid way, you’ll be attached to either our Birmingham, London or Manchester office and will report to the HR Business Partner (Operations). In line with our current ways of working, you’ll be expected to be in the office at least 1 day a month, in addition to team days and this may be reviewed by Ambition.
Skills, knowledge and experience
To succeed in this role you'll have a CIPD level 3 or working towards a relevant HR qualification, or equivalent experience. You'll also demonstrate:
- Successful experience in a similar level administrative role
- Experience in working in a fast-paced organisation with changing business and operating priorities.
- Experience of working autonomously, using initiative, and an ability to problem-solve
- Empathy and collaboration with excellent people skills including good written and spoken communication skills, capable of building effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
What’s in it for you
- Competitive annual salary
- Professional development for all staff
- 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays and 'winter shut down’ at the end of December/beginning of January
- Employer pension contribution of 11%
- Agile, hybrid working culture, so you can manage when and where you work
- Staff affinity networks that help keep equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of our work
- Blind recruitment process to ensure equality and fairness in our hiring
- Enhanced maternity pay after a year’s service
- Shared parental leave package
- Access to free, confidential 24/7 wellbeing and support line
- Comfortable and collaborative workspaces in the city centres of Manchester, Birmingham and London
- Work-from-home technology package to support hybrid working
- Interest free season ticket / bike loans
You should apply if
We don’t expect the person we hire to have all of the following, but this should give you a sense of what would enable you to thrive in this role and in our organisation:
- You care deeply about educational disadvantage and being part of an organisation that challenges inequality
- You have a good work ethic and strive to make a difference in the job you do
- You always give maximum effort to understand and meet the needs of our partners and participants
- You always have a great attitude so we “can do” for all our colleagues, partners and participants
- You are open to feedback and learning because we want to keep getting better
- You work with your initiative to bring new ideas and a fresh perspective
- You are well organised and can prioritise work that will have the greatest impact
You'll love working at Ambition if
- You want a career with a person-centred organisation with a cause at its heart.
- You have a collaborative work ethos, bring warmth and good humour to work and constructive outlook to every situation
- You enjoy working in a fast-moving workplace, with a great support structure around you
- You would like to grow with an ambitious organisation as it progresses over time
- Want flexibility in how you work – splitting your time between one of our offices and remote working and managing your own working patterns to get the job done.
