Sparx Ltd Hiring for HR Assistant at Exeter Full Time

Term: Fixed Term Contract until March 2023. Minimum of 3 days per week – up to full time (40 hours over 5 days).

Salary: Competitive DOE, plus benefits

Closing Date: Monday 7th March 2022 (9am)

Unfortunately, at this current time, we cannot accept applications that require sponsorship for an employment visa.

About Sparx

Sparx Learning is on a mission to improve the numeracy, and therefore life opportunities, of five million learners worldwide by 2030. We are committed to driving positive change through the effective use of education technology, with a razor sharp focus on making a real difference to teachers, learners and families.

We are already working with over 2000 schools, 1.8 million learners and 35,000 teachers and ensuring that security of our data, products and systems is of the utmost importance

About the Role

Sparx are looking for an HR Assistant to join the People Team to support the People Business Partner in delivering the People service across Sparx.

Acting as the first point of contact for questions and queries, this person will be an integral part of the team, providing proactive and effective day-to-day support and guidance across the business and supporting the People Business Partner with key People projects.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is just starting out within their HR career or looking to progress from previously working as a HR Administration.

Key responsibilities

Be the first point of contact for day-to-day HR queries across Sparx to support People managers in operational questions and escalating issues to the People Business Partner where appropriate.

Ensuring policies, procedures, guidelines and HR information pages are kept up to date on our internal employee hub.

Working with our central HR Admin team with HR systems administration, ensuring employee data is up to date.

Working with the central recruitment team and supporting people managers with their recruitment activities, including drafting job descriptions, adverts and interview packs, shortlisting candidates etc.

Supporting the starter/ leavers process, acting as point of contact for new starters and coordinating the onboarding/offboarding process with the admin and IT teams.

Assisting with the design, preparation and delivery of internal communications and presentations.

Supporting the People Business Partner with coordinating and preparing communication/documents on People projects where required.

Support in any ad-hoc People tasks.

About you:
You’re passionate about people, enjoy working in a fast paced environment and want to further your career within HR.

Essential

A strong understanding of People practices.

Computer literate.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to communicate effectively to stakeholders at all levels.

CIPD Level 3/Foundation Level or equivalent experience.

Excellent planning and organisational skills with the ability to successfully manage conflicting priorities.

Resilient and able to work at pace within a fast-moving environment.

Excellent attention to detail.

Able to demonstrate high levels of initiative and motivation, working closely with other team members and displaying trust and loyalty.

Proactive with a ‘can do’ flexible attitude and excellent customer service.

Ability to work with integrity and absolute discretion.

High levels of emotional intelligence and empathy when dealing with the employee journey and care.

About Sparx Learning

In these challenging times, education is going through a transformation. Sparx is at the forefront of that change, as a socially focused learning technology company, with the goal to improve numeracy and life outcomes for more than 5 million learners globally by 2030.

Founded in 2010 Sparx has worked closely with schools to research the way that maths is taught and learnt. It now offers schools, teachers, learners and parents a suite of innovative solutions that support personalised maths learning in the classroom and at home.

Supported by a private Family Office (Oxygen House) Sparx has had over £50m invested since the outset, £20m of which was committed in the recent few years.

Sparx Learning encompasses: Sparx Maths, Sparx Maths Homework, HegartyMaths and Numerise, which together reach over 1.8 million learners in over 2,000 schools in the UK and across 20 countries. Over 50% of secondary schools in England use one of the Sparx products.

Sparx Maths is an award-winning approach to maths for 11-16 year olds, underpinned by an adaptive technology platform.

HegartyMaths is an online platform providing students with access to world-class teaching coupled with bespoke and adaptive maths assessment.

Numerise is a personalised home-learning maths product for 10 to 16 year olds. It draws on a bank of over 38,000 handwritten questions and 9,000 video tutorials to engage, motivate and support learners for their GCSEs and Key Stage 3.

We’re looking for people with a real passion for education and a belief in the power of technology to improve it. People who want a challenge; people who want to make a difference.

About the Sparx Team

We’re about living life, not putting it on hold. Sparx employees have the opportunity to enjoy a whole range of benefits, a few of which include: generous holiday leave, comprehensive private medical and dental insurance and the chance to join our company pension.

When we are working from our Exeter office, we have a range of on-site facilities including a netball court, a five-a-side football pitch, a pool table, a table tennis table, as well as an on-site gym. Our café serves delicious, local, and organic food. Plus, we’re constantly organising events and activities to support our charities, and to socialise. Our work is serious but we’re all about having fun while we do it!

We are currently trialling a hybrid working model, where your time will be split between working from home and in our offices at Oxygen House, it is likely that you will be required to be in Oxygen House at least 1 day a week.

To find out more about Sparx Learning, please visit our website at www.sparx-learning.com