Cardiff Metropolitan University Hiring for HR Business Partner at Cardiff Full Time

Job reference

22REQ0002299

Date posted

24/10/2022

Application closing date

14/11/2022

Location

Llandaff Campus

Salary

7 A/B, £42,155 – £47,423 per annum

Package

Permanent

Contractual hours

37

Basis

Full Time

Job category/type

Operations

Attachments

Job Description Lead HRBP – Welsh.pdf Job Description Lead HRBP – English.pdf

Job description

The opportunity

We are currently seeking an experienced HR Business Partner. This is a strategic role working at the very heart of Cardiff Met, partnering with our Deans, Directors and their teams, helping our leaders to make the best people decisions and drive forward their enabling strategies. You’ll be passionate about HR, willing to get stuck in, and resilient. Relationship building is key to this role.

You will have experience operating at a senior level within a progressive People environment. Degree educated with a Level 7 vocational qualification in a HR/HR related field, you will be a Chartered member of the CIPD (or working towards), possess a good working knowledge of HR processes and practice, as well a sound grasp of employment law, Equalities and Confidentiality.

What you’ll do – key duties

Drive positive employee and leadership engagement through proposing and partnering with managers and senior leaders on creative and effective initiatives

Act as an internal consultant to proactively propose, support and deliver strategic projects and other business improvements, helping to ensure the right strategic outcomes are delivered, bearing in mind success criteria and timelines.

Work in close partnership with Organisational Development, using an agile approach to proactively spot problems and offer solutions for managers across the business, as well as proactively improving leadership capability.

Support the design and delivery of training/bespoke development to positively influence the culture and support best practice in the management of people issues & change management.

Lead and enable effective strategic workforce planning across the organization and work within the business areas to enable a flexible, whole workforce approach that is aligned to the university’s strategic plan.

In close partnership with the Lead HR Business Partners and the Specialist team, develop and deliver on project work and initiatives specifically relating to pay and reward, contractual framework and other bespoke pieces of work.

Closely understand, interpret and propose improvements to our HR Policies, as well as being live to possible day to day legal risks.

Whilst you will signpost grievances, disciplinary and other complex casework to the HR Advisors and/or Specialist team as appropriate, you will provide business insight to help shape people management policies and practices.

Proactively evaluate trends and interpret data, with support from the People Analytics team to spot and address any people, process and policy changes, to help drive constant improvements and efficiencies across the business.

Working in a virtual space with colleagues from across People Services on a range of agile transformational collaborative projects.

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Ensuring a great employee experience by sharing relevant information between the various teams that make up People Services, to ensure that any processes, changes and records are timely and accurate.

Act as a diversity and inclusion champion within the business, use available data to drive inclusive initiatives and ensure that all employee decisions are considered from a discrimination, diversity and inclusion perspective

Act as a brand champion for People Services within the university by living our values and behaviours, and ensuring our processes and approaches are consistent with our values and best practice.

Support Organisational Development, People Operations and Specialist People Services team workloads during busy periods of time.

What you’ll bring – essential experience & strengths

Experience operating at a senior level within a progressive People environment.

Completed CPD record to demonstrate your commitment to your development for the past 2 years.

Experience of leading and coaching senior management teams to achieve optimum performance. Ability to influence peers and senior leaders.

Great customer service skills and an excellent track record for building strong professional relationships and credibility across all levels of an organisation.

Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, a busy workload and prioritise competing demands in a calm and professional manner, inspiring trust and a sense of stability. Displays an approachable style to establish and maintain collaborative, trust-based relationships, and works effectively and inclusively with a range of people, keeping everyone up to date.

Innovative, action orientated and proactive; exhibits a strong desire to complete assignments and deliver results through planning and prioritisation.

Demonstrable experience of applying best practice HR at a strategic level to include Operational Management, Resourcing, Workforce Planning, Talent and Succession Planning.

Relevant experience of resolving a wide variety of difficult employee relations situations.

Good working knowledge of HR processes and practice, as well a sound grasp of employment law, Equalities and Confidentiality.

Shows persistence, creativity, resilience, adaptability and resourcefulness in the face of obstacles.

Ability and knowledge to undertake pay and reward work

Flexible in your approach and willing to work at all levels – you’re as happy coaching a colleague through a problem as you are supporting a big strategic problem

Is comfortable with, and able to support others navigate through, ambiguity and change

Strong project management skills; identifies and executes steps to achieve tasks, goals, objectives and results.

Digitally competent and confident, and experienced in using the Microsoft suite of applications.

Inclusive and collaborative approach, working with honesty, respect and compassion

Comfortable with data and curious about people analytics. Ability to communicate insight to business area colleagues and influence evidenced based people practices.

Our total reward package

We have a range of great benefits for employees including:
Annual leave of 35 days plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days.

Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous contributions.

Flexible and remote working opportunities.

Award winning sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership, plus subsidised physiotherapy/complementary therapy/sports massage.

Access to all library facilities.

Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work.

If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Sarah Corcoran, Head of HR Business Partnering, at [email protected] or phone 07857 474354.

Interviews date: 7th December 2022.

Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.

We are committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. Our Strategic Plan underpins our commitment to recruit and retain the best talent and we welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. We appoint on merit.

We aim to respond to your application as soon as possible.

Further Information

Please visit our website for information about working for us, our culture, benefits, work-life balance and our career progression and development opportunities.