People Officer - London, United Kingdom - WaterAid

WaterAid

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Job description

People Officer

Contract:
Permanent, Full Time, 35 hours per week

Salary:
£37,130 - £38,986 with excellent benefits

Location:
London, UK

Hybrid Working:

A minimum of 40% of working time is spent face to face, either in London office, or as a result of external engagement or travel for WaterAid.

WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base.

About WaterAid:

Want to use your skills in HR to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere? Is your genuine passion for HR supported by recent experience in a similar role and a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced HR environment? If your answer to both questions is yes, you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our organisation.

Join WaterAid as a
People Officer and be part of a global change for millions of people. Help them to unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.

About the Team:

The WaterAid Global People & Organisational Development team (The People Team) plays a critical role in helping WaterAid realise its goals.

We lead on the development of strategies that ensure that WaterAid people are aligned and engaged with our aims and objectives, and that they have the skills and opportunities to maximise the impact they can make.

About the Role:

As our People Officer, you will work across the UK People Team to provide excellent administrative support across the full spectrum of HR including policy, processes, systems, employee benefits, payroll and general UK People Team projects and initiatives.

We support and enjoy a hybrid working environment. This role is a full-time, permanent role.

Regular attendance (2 days a week) to the London office is required to enable you to connect with the UK People Team and colleagues from wider teams.

In this role, you will act as a central point of contact for all HR queries across the UK office.

You'll be a key team player providing proactive and customer-centric responses to internal and external stakeholders, as well as ensuring our processes, systems and practices are accurate and efficient.

You'll also:

Provide recruitment administration support on UK and global roles
Support the team to report and analyse data
Work with the Payroll Officer to ensure that changes are processed and provide checking support
Act as the HR systems lead for the team ensuring the UK elements of the system run effectively, and the team and line managers know how to use it in the right way
Work with the wider People Team on key initiatives and projects

About You:

Experience of working as an HR administrator/Officer in a busy (office/ professional) environment whilst remaining calm under pressure.
Strong customer service skills, dealing with a wide variety of internal/external customers.
Excellent oral and written communication skills with fluency in English.
Excellent IT literacy in MS office suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Analytical, common sense and methodical way of working with an aptitude for problemsolving and excellent attention to detail.

Your Cover Letter which includes answers to the following questions in no more than 500 words.

What top three skills do you feel are relevant to, and will add value to this role?
What do you believe are the biggest challenges a HR Operations team currently faces?
What is your approach to managing relationships with internal stakeholders?

Our Benefits:

36 days' holiday (including 8 Bank Holidays)
Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
Wide range of flexible and agileworking arrangement
Season Ticket Loan
Free annual eye tests
Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
Sabbaticals
Volunteer Day

Our Commitment

Our People Promise:

We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere.

WaterAid is a place of purpose - where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have.

We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work.

We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

Equal opportunities:

Safeguarding:

We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with.

We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation.

Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our beha