HR Advisory Assistant

Contract: Fixed Term 27^th February 2023 – 23^rd February 2024

Hours: Full-time

Location: Flexibility to work at both campuses, Singleton and Bay

Swansea University’s HR Team has an exciting opportunity for a HR Advisory Assistant to join their award-winning HR community. HR prides themselves on providing pro-active, high quality professional advice and excellent customer service to all staff and managers on all HR matters.

The HR team is on a journey of growth, change and transformation. The HR Advisory Assistant role will play a key role in providing excellent customer service and professional advice to all staff members, and will be responsible for providing a pro-active, and efficient customer focussed HR service to managers and staff in Academic Colleges and Professional Service Departments for the full employee life cycle.

The HR Advisory Assistant will support the HR Service Delivery Manager with local HR day to day processes. If you have would like to work with a strong HR community, in a fast paced, dynamic, and developing environment this opportunity could be for you. 

The HR Advisory Assistant role will be responsible for ensuring that HR outcomes are delivered on time and to the agreed level for the full employee life cycle. (e.g. recruitment, absence, fixed term contracts, probations) in line with the University HR Strategy and Implementation Plan. Also responsible for delivering a systematic approach to identifying issues, risks and opportunities. Providing innovative solutions in partnership with HR colleagues’ managers and staff. Role model a continuous improvement approach using Management Information and objective data to ensure solutions add value and enable sustainable performance for customers. 

The successful candidate should be able to work to the Universities Values. Key experience in providing professional, efficient and customer focused HR services. Must have strong experience of delivering agreed actions to ensure that HR/business outcomes for the customers are delivered to the required standard. A Full job description is attached.

The University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity in all of its practices and activities. We aim to establish an inclusive environment and welcome diverse applications from the following protected characteristics: age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation.

Please note this job is also being advertised to a pool of colleagues internally as part of our University commitment to employee redeployment.  Should this post be filled from this route then you will receive an email confirming this. If you do not receive an email, please assume that your application is still in process.

To apply for this position please complete the online application and provide key examples of how you meet the essential experience/knowledge and skills criteria in the person specification.

Additional Information

Interviews are planned for 15^th February on Bay campus.

For informal enquiries please contact Angharad Keefe, Head of HR Service Delivery by email: a.e.m.keefe@swansea.ac.uk

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