Job Description
Senior HR Business Partner
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Salary: Circa £52,000 + benefits
Location: Birmingham/Hybrid working
Ref: HR001
Want to be part of something transformational?
At Birmingham City University (BCU), we’re enabling students to achieve their potential so they can go out and transform the world. Our people are the key, delivering a great experience for every learner, every day. As a Senior HR Business partner, you’ll support this outstanding inclusive staff community by making the University a great place to work. It’s a chance to empower our team – and help game-changing graduates thrive.
Why Birmingham City University?
At Birmingham City University we aim to be the University for Birmingham. We have recently invested £340m in our central Birmingham campuses, building on our civic heritage. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we help individuals to transform their lives, and society, too. We are determined to empower the next generation with the skills they need to flourish in a digital and ever-changing global environment.
HR at Birmingham City University
In Human Resources, people are our focus. We’re looking for skilled professionals who will share our values and strive to make the University a great place to work:
- We will attract and retain the best people and develop and support them to fulfil their potential, meet their career aspirations and deliver the University’s strategy.
- We will engage with, recognise and reward our people by valuing their creativity and performance in the delivery of the University's priorities.
- We will promote and develop excellent and inclusive leadership and build partnerships centred on our values in a safe, healthy and collaborative working environment.
Your role as Senior HR Business Partner
HR plays a hugely important part in helping us achieve our strategic aims. Your task, in this key role, is to partner your assigned Faculty or Department, helping them to develop and deliver their People Strategies. Working as an integrated member of the senior management team, you’ll tackle staffing, talent, engagement and employee relations plans. You’ll also oversee recruitment and workforce planning, manage HR projects; and crucially, build our leaders’ ability to manage their people issues.
At this level, you’ll be an internal HR specialist, providing a high-quality service and expert advice. You must therefore be CIPD-qualified, with significant experience in a Business Partner role, including employee relations casework. Degree-educated (or equivalent), you’ll have the confidence to collaborate, influencing others, communicating clearly, and giving professional guidance. Good organisation will be essential, along with attention to detail, strong knowledge of EDI issues and enthusiasm.
Rewards and benefits
Join us, and you’ll be eligible for a generous pension and annual leave. We also have great facilities on campus, family-friendly policies and a hybrid working model that combines on-site and remote working (where possible).
To apply please visit www.hratbcu.co.uk
Closing date for all applications is Monday 27th March 2023.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to attend preliminary meetings during week commencing 3rd April 2023.
The final interview at Birmingham City University will take place during week commencing 10th April 2023.
Referees will not be approached without prior permission from candidates.
In order to apply, please submit comprehensive curriculum vitae along with a covering letter setting out your interest in the role and details of how you match the required criteria to alan.fitzgerald@bcu.ac.uk quoting the relevant job reference number. Please include current salary details and the names and addresses of two referees. Referees will not be approached until the final stages and not without prior permission from candidates.
Birmingham City University holds an Athena Swan Bronze Award and promotes the advancement of gender equality through Representation, Progression and Success for All. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community and actively encourage unique contributions, in particular from under-represented groups in respect of age, disability, sex, gender or gender identity, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status.
All our people are expected to understand and enact the University’s commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do. This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy.
The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve.
It is each individual successful applicant’s responsibility to ensure that they have permission to work in the UK. Some applicants may require sponsorship from the University and a visa from UKVI to take up the role if successful. More information on this can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. Some roles are not capable of sponsorship because they do not meet the UKVI criteria relating to skill and salary level. If you are unsure as to whether you would require sponsorship if successful, or whether the role is capable of sponsorship, please contact us: RTinbox@bcu.ac.uk
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