HR Change Partner

Human Resources

This full-time post is available on 1 July 2025 on a fixed term basis until 31 December 2026. This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.

About the role

To deliver the University’s Strategy 2030, we have created an enabling programme of work, focusing on evolving our workforce to realise reinvestment opportunities, empower agility, facilitate efficient and adaptable ways of working, and ultimately support our people to deliver on the University’s strategic objectives.

This role will facilitate our delivery of the HR elements of the various Enabling Strategy 2030 programme workstreams by providing partnering and technical expertise to plans for creating workforce efficiencies, agile working practices and the review, design and implementation of new operating models and organisational structures.

The role will work alongside the HR Partnering team and our small HR Change team, sharing good practice into the effective design, analysis and implementation of good workforce planning, and providing practical, hands-on support.

We are seeking to recruit a highly credible, innovative HR Change expert with the ability to proactively work alongside senior organisational leaders. You will have significant experience of developing successful change cases, articulating drivers for change and engaging a wide range of stakeholders. You’ll preferably have both generalist and HR change experience from working in complex and challenging organisations and ideally will be confident in providing thorough organisational design or organisational development advice.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• 41 days leave per year
• options for flexible working
• numerous discounts at leading retailers
• onsite gyms on all of our campus’ and a cycle to work scheme
• sector leading policies around maternity, adoption and shared parental leave (up to 26 weeks full pay), paternity leave (up to 6 weeks full pay) and a Fertility Treatment Policy
• stunning campus environments in Exeter and Cornwall, in the beautiful South West of England

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

We are committed to ensuring reasonable adjustments are available for interviews and workplaces.

Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented within our working community. 

With over 30,000 students and 7,000 staff from 150 different countries we offer a diverse and engaging environment where our diversity is celebrated and valued as a major strength. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where all members of our community are supported to thrive; where diverse voices are heard through our engagement with evidence-based charter frameworks for gender (Athena SWAN and Project Juno for Physics), race equality (Race Equality Charter Mark), LGBTQ+ inclusion (Stonewall Diversity Champion) and as a Disability Confident employer.

We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and welcome applications from service people.

Further Information

To find out more, please get in touch with Holly Davey, Assistant Director of HR at: H.Davey@exeter.ac.uk.

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