Senior HR Advisor - Birmingham, United Kingdom - University of Birmingham

University of Birmingham

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

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Tom O´Connor

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Position Details
Human Resources, Campus Services

Location:
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £34,980 to £44,263 with potential progression once in post to £46,974

Grade: 7

Full Time, Fixed Term contract for 12 months

Closing date: 4th June 2024

Background

The University of Birmingham is a global institution working within a diverse and vibrant city, offering an inspiring education to our students, and undertaking critically important research.

We are a place of open, critical thinking, creating, sharing and disseminating knowledge. Professional Services put students at the heart of all they do and enable an exceptional educational experience.

Professional Services provide outstanding support to our researchers and help the University to grow its influence regionally, nationally, and globally.

They ensure the University's resources are used wisely; they manage and improve the University infrastructure which sits at the heart of the institution, and support decisions to be made quickly and based on sound evidence.

Our Birmingham Professional programme operates across the University, supporting colleagues to network and collaborate, offering opportunities to learn and develop, contributing to the delivery of the University's objectives, and helping everyone to understand the broader context within which we work.

Working with colleagues across the institution, HR at the University of Birmingham is critical to the delivery of many aspects of the University's Strategic Framework.

Comprising c.140 staff FTE, HR facilitates the recruitment, development, engagement and retention of talented colleagues, helping to create a culture which is both vibrant and inclusive and which facilitates the University's ambition of being a top 50 institution.

The HR team is committed to ensuring that the University attracts excellent people who are proud to work in HR and for the University of Birmingham, who engender respect both inside and outside the University for the quality of work they do.

The Professional Services HR team provides a high-quality service to approximately 3,000 staff engaged in a broad range of activity from student support to those functions typically found in a large and complex organisation with a turnover of c£800m.

within Professional Services, Campus Services is one of the largest and most diverse functions.

Campus Services (CS) employs over 1000 staff with a turnover exceeding £57m in the last financial year.

CS plays a key role in the quality of the student, staff, and visitor experience, providing services across diverse areas such as the University's sporting facilities, food and beverage, cleaning, community safety and security, conferencing, hotel operations, day nurseries, portering, post, branded and own-brand retail outlets, visitor services and attractions (e.g., Winterbourne House & Gardens), student housing, transport, waste disposal and recycling.

CS is a highly commercial organisation operating within the University context and has an ambitious strategic agenda, in terms of growing our service profile across both our Birmingham and Dubai campuses.

The Campus Services People and Culture Plan has been developed in support of University's strategic aspirations and is an extension of the Birmingham 2030 People and Culture pillar.

The plan has been co-created with colleagues across Campus Services and incorporates staff survey feedback.

The plan is initially set out over 5 years and will be delivered through four workstreams, ably supported by CS HR, Business Support and Internal Communications.

Role Summary

The Senior HR Advisor (People and Culture) - Campus Services has been created for a period of 12 months to proactively evolve the Campus Services People and Culture agenda.

The role will focus on 3 key areas of activity:

supporting the People and Culture Workstreams to deliver on agreed actions within this period, developing and delivering a Campus Services line manager development programme, focussed on key HR processes and advising on significant people issues.

The Senior HR Advisor (People and Culture) - Campus Services will report to the HR Manager - Campus Services and will deputise for this role, as required.

This may include providing advice and guidance to members of the CS Senior Leadership Group (SLG) and attending SLG meetings.

The postholder will work in partnership with the HR Advisor - Campus Services to proactively identify and resolve people issues.

Main Duties

People and Culture Workstreams

Provide professional, timely, expert HR advice to the four workstreams, attending workstream meetings as required.
Utilise a clear organisational understanding, employment law knowledge and best practice to inform the development and implementation of workstream projects.
Source, analyse and develop insights from relevant data (e.g. benchmarking, key performance