Senior HR Coordinator (Fixed Term)

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly experienced Senior HR Coordinator to join the University of Cambridge Estates Division. The University is one of the world's leading research-intensive academic institutions. The Estates Division is responsible for supporting all the areas of the Estate across the University and is a team of approximately 300 staff.

About this role:

The role leads on day to day HR functions including recruitment processes, HR issues and contractual matters.  Additional to offering support and advice as appropriate, the Senior HR Coordinator will monitor and review systems and procedures for ensuring best practice and compliance; support the development of Estate Division HR policies; making recommendations for improvements, making implementations  and monitoring changes agreed by the leadership. 

For both Estates Division internal and external-facing functions, the role holder provides senior level communications, documentation (including Management Information), and liaison and coordination (maintaining information flow) on behalf of ED with external organisations.

The Senior HR Coordinator will lead some HR projects such as developing and implementing Estates Division programmes.

The Senior HR Coordinator will have line management responsibility including all aspects of line management from induction, SRD, ensuring training, performance management, and allocation of work as well as responsibility for supervision of temporary workers as and when required.

Your Skills and Experience:

You will be well-organised, proactive, and responsive, with the ability to communicate at all levels and to work well within and across teams. With an excellent level of attention to detail, you will be able to prioritise effectively and work quickly and accurately. You will be flexible and adaptable and able to apply tact and discretion when managing sensitive and highly confidential information. You will have excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to remain calm under pressure while managing workloads to meet multiple deadlines. Qualified or work towards CIPD level 5 is desirable.

Benefits

- Competitive rates of pay with automatic service-related pay progression and annual

   cost of living increases.

- Generous annual leave allowance of 36 days paid leave (including bank holidays)

- Flexible working opportunities. We are currently working 2-3 days a week in the office and then working from home

- Generous maternity, adoption and shared parental leave entitlement and other family

   friendly schemes (e.g., workplace nurseries and salary exchange schemes for

   childcare)

- Define benefits pension scheme.

- Travel benefits and retail discounts at over 2,000 local and national stores.

- Support for health and mental wellbeing

Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 12 months in the first instance.

Applications are welcome from internal candidates who would like to apply for the role on the basis of a secondment from their current role in the University. 

We welcome applications from individuals who wish to be considered for part-time working or other flexible working arrangements.

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please email Estates Division on EDR@admin.cam.ac.uk

Please quote reference BA36000 on your application and in any correspondence about this vacancy.

The University actively supports equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from all sections of society.

The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.

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