HR Business Partner

Location: The Francis Crick Institute, London

Short summary

Are you looking for an HR role that gives you wide ranging opportunities, management responsibility and a key role in supporting the science and operations conducted in one of the world’s leading research institutes? Ever dreamt of a career that not only values your potential but propels you towards personal development? If so, your opportunity has arrived!

The Francis Crick Institute, one of Europe's biggest labs and home to more than 1,500 scientists working to understand health, disease and how life works, is looking for a People Partner to join our state-of-the-art institute situated in the heart of Kings Cross, offering a collaborative culture and, most importantly, an independent charity with a clear purpose, that needs you.

The primary focus of the role is to enable and support managers in managing their staff. Acting as a key partner they will champion the Crick’s Discovery without Boundaries strategy and will assist with the design and development of focused people solutions. You will need to have experience as an HR/People Partner and embody our values: Bold, Open, Collegial

Key Responsibilities

• Build strong collaborative relationships with senior scientists and operational leads
• Acting as a performance coach and sounding board to senior managers
• Providing advice on high risk/complex employee relations matters
• Effectively leading, developing, motivating and performance managing the People Advisor
• Working with OD on specific departmental strategic and cultural change programmes and organisation design initiatives
• Supporting the design and delivery of training for managers
• HR lead for senior recruitment activity
• Leading the focus on talent management in collaboration with the Learning & Development team utilising the Crick’s talent processes
• Driving forward HR strategies, achievements of goals and promotion of initiatives to deliver against HR’s strategic agenda.
• Managing headcount and resource planning processes

About us

The Francis Crick Institute is a biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the fundamental biology underlying health and disease. Its work is helping to understand why disease develops and to translate discoveries into new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat illnesses such as cancer, heart disease, stroke, infections, and neurodegenerative diseases.

An independent organisation, its founding partners are the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK, Wellcome, UCL, Imperial College London and King’s College London.

The Crick was formed in 2015, and in 2016 it moved into a new state-of-the-art building in central London which brings together 1500 scientists and support staff working collaboratively across disciplines, making it the biggest biomedical research facility under in one building in Europe.

The Francis Crick Institute will be world-class with a strong national role. Its distinctive vision for excellence includes commitments to collaboration; developing emerging talent and exporting it the rest of the UK; public engagement; and helping turn discoveries into treatments as quickly as possible to improve lives and strengthen the economy. 

• If you are interested in applying for this role, please apply via our website.
• The closing date for applications is 01/09/2024.
• All offers of employment are subject to successful security screening and continuous eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.

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