People & Culture Business Partner

4 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON Full time

Location: Docklands Campus

Salary: Starting from £60,077 per annum inclusive of London Weighting

Post Type: Full Time

Post Type: Permanent

Closing Date: Monday 06 May 2024

Reference: PS-R

University of East London

We're the University of East London (UEL) founded in 1898 and proud to change lives through education. Our goal is to advance industry 5.0 careers-first education and provide a clear path to the jobs and opportunities of the future. We're committed to driving diversity in the 5.0 talent pipeline, working in partnership to promote talent wherever it is found and creating a balanced, inclusive, and green future.

About the People & Culture department

The People & Culture directorate (approx. 40 staff) is organised across five distinct core functions, aligned to the delivery of our People Strategy - Talent Acquisition, Employee Experience & Development, Operations, Systems & Services, Employee Relations & Policy and Health, Safety & Wellbeing.

The People & Culture directorate is responsible, in partnership with customers across the organisation, for delivering the University of East London's People strategy, in furtherance of the UELs strategic progress outlined in our Vision 2028 strategy. It is focused on the delivery customer-centric and operationally excellent services to create an environment where people are attracted to work at UEL, to be supported to develop and grow, and deliver their best work in a hard-working and supportive environment.

About the Job

This is a new and exciting role in the People and Culture department, it's a chance to really take ownership and be responsible for driving strategic cultural change across the University.

The People & Culture Business Partner is responsible for the execution of the People Strategy across UEL by designing, delivering, and embedding business area People plans, evolving them as needed. In this role, you'll help build leadership and management capability, enhance the employee experience, provide HR perspective to business decisions and influence, develop, and integrate targeted people strategies.

Some of the key deliverables of the role include:

  • Work across the People and Culture team to establish strong relationships to have a good solid understanding of people initiatives to enable a confident, customer focused approach to managing stakeholders across the University, being relentless at joining things up and engaging business areas with the agreed narrative.
  • Building effective relationships across Business area leadership teams to design, develop and deliver people plans aligned to the People Strategy. Offering mentorship and challenge to craft their approach and deliver high performance.
  • Support and coach the managers and leaders at UEL on all strategic people leadership matters, including business change and transformation.
  • Lead Organisational Design projects to effect business change and transformation, aligned to the People Strategy, Business Strategy and Vision 2028.
  • Supporting and driving key P&C initiatives across the organisation, including performance and talent management, engagement, succession planning, compensation planning, staffing, training and development, diversity and inclusion, rewards & recognition, and employee communication. Ensuring all aspects are integrated in departmental People Plans.
  • Be obsessed with data and insights Working with colleagues from Systems and Insights and the wider Employee experience and Development team to ensure robust data sets and insights are produced to inform strategic decisions across the University, utilising data to advise People plans for all business areas.
  • Proactively handling day-to-day operational aspects and contributing at the strategic level, ensuring flawless transition and hand off to the Employee Relations team where needed.

    About You

    If you love developing relationships, understanding your business areas, and finding opportunities to contribute at a strategic level to drive cultural change and deliver our People Strategy then this is role for you

    You'll be used to dealing with different audiences and being proactive in your engagement and how you collaborate. You'll want to get to know us as a business and be driven by wanting to align what we do in the People and Culture department with what your business area strategic objectives are. You'll want to take the lead in developing People plans and be a key role model of the People & Culture department, being authentic and passionate about what we do. You'll bring innovation and drive things forward - your positive, can-do mindset, determination and love of change is what we need at UEL

    You'll be obsessed with data and insights, be able to balance big picture thinking with getting stuff done and be driven by a clear purpose of wanting to make a difference to how it feels to work here.

    This is a great opportunity to get stuck in and transform how the People and Culture teamwork as a strategic partner across the University. You'll be part of the Employee Experience and Development team – surrounded by colleagues who's shared purpose is to make how it feels to work at UEL an engaging and exciting experience.

    Benefits Package

    Here are UEL we understand it's about more than just a salary. It's about the entire package on offer along with our excellent work environment and inclusive culture. We know the market rates for this vacancy and will offer a genuinely competitive salary DOE.

    We care deeply about your wellbeing and our benefits includes: 20% pension (4% from you, 16% from us), 25 days holiday (plus 3 days over Christmas and plus bank holidays), and we're always open to consider flexible working arrangements. We have a discretionary and non-contractual shared success bonus scheme with a value of up to £5,000 in the 23/24 academic year, 3 times base salary life assurance, a cashback healthcare scheme and wide variety of other generous benefits including discounts on: Apple and Samsung products, holidays, clothing, fitness, lifestyle, dining out and weekly shopping.

    Equal Opportunities

    UEL is an inclusive equal opportunities employer and are proud of our Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity achievements, including: zero gender pay gap, members of Stonewall and have won Athena Swan awards. We expect all employees of UEL to accept our EDI policy and will not tolerate discrimination in any form.

    We're a disability confident employer and value all applications. Please let us know if you require any reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process.

    Further details: Job Description & Person Specification More about our benefits

    To contact the recruitment team please phone x 4600 or e-mail

    CVs without a completed application form will not be accepted.

    At UEL we are committed to working together to build a community which values diversity in both our staff and student populations, is representative and inclusive, enabling all to progress and thrive.

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