People Coordinator

Do you want to help build a company with the capacity to disrupt whole industries and take on environmental issues on a global scale?- Matter. is a VC backed Cleantech scale-up and we have an opportunity for a People Coordinator (14-month FTC) to support our team through the entire employee lifecycle, ensuring they have the best experience possible.**Job Title: People Coordinator**

**Location: Central Bristol / Hybrid / Flexible Working**

**Salary Range: £32,000 - £33,500 (Fixed-term Contract - 14 months)**
**Start Date: Oct/Nov '24**
- Matter. is a microplastics capture technology company focused on sustainable design and circular economy. You will be working on some of the biggest challenges of our time, removing microplastics and micropollutants from the world’s waterways and airways.- Through brilliant design thinking, powerful partners, and an impatience to make what we do matter, our mission is to develop and scale products that are the hard line between the biological and technical cycle.- We pride ourselves on our amazing technology and passion for wanting to change things, but fundamentally what we are most proud of is our people.- For us, people are everything. It’s what makes a company, not the mission written on the wall or the fancy building we work in. Our people represent us, our values and why we do what we do.**The Opportunity**
- Matter seeks a mission-led People Coordinator to support people through the entire employee lifecycle, ensuring our people have the best experience possible.- You will enjoy being the first point of contact for all queries directed to the People Team, where you will provide support and guidance on our people policies, processes, and any employee relations cases, whilst supporting with any necessary new initiatives to enhance the Matter experience.Key Responsibilities
- Assisting in the preparation of job descriptions and job adverts
- Drafting and issuing offer letters, contracts of employments, and supporting onboarding through our HRIS BambooHR
- Update and maintain People data within our HRIS BambooHR, ensuring accurate, up to date information is always accessible
- Maintain and build upon our People SharePoint page, which acts as our intranet for employees to access policy, benefits, training, and committee information
- Preparing the monthly payroll, collating employee changes and deductions or payments (e.g. absence, paid out holiday) and working with our outsourced payroll providers and our internal Finance Team to process payment
- Drafting and issuing correspondence relating to contract changes, probation passings/extensions, leave, disciplinary and grievances
- Provide excellent customer service to our employees, advising on policies and procedures where needed
- Build and run necessary reports for our Senior Leadership Team and Sustainability Officer (e.g. headcount, salary reporting, absence levels)
- Coordinating the performance management cycles, making sure quarterly reviews are held on time, and that objectives are recorded in our HRIS, managing any promotion and salary increase cycles that accompany this
- Supporting in any capability, disciplinary, absence, or grievance procedures with the support from our General Council
- Coordinating our learning and development efforts such as supporting with training requests, running our lunch and learn programme
- Administering our benefits offering, ensuring employees are added/removed from our benefits platform, supporting employees with any queries related to benefits, and working with our external benefits partners to manage the renewals process
- Working collaboratively with colleagues from across the business on related culture and people projects
- Other ad-hoc support to the wider Operations Team as well as the Senior Leadership Team to support the people experience at Matter

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

**How you will make an Impact**
- They will continue ensuring our People Processes are smooth and efficient, we are providing excellent service and guidance to employees - they will ensure Matter is well supported on all things People and will help impact the culture and effectiveness of the business.**How you will grow**
- This is an opportunity for an experienced administrator or coordinator who enjoys working independently, working across the whole business and gaining further development in all things within generalist HR, such as benefits and payroll, employee relations, L&D and culture.- Your legacy will ensure that Matter’s People processes are better than when you inherited them and make a significant stamp on a scaling business.- You will get exposure to working with the Exec team and other senior stakeholders and learn about the wider business.**About you**
- You have a proven track record of generalist HR experience at a similar level
- You have impeccable attention to detail, and are comfortable working with different HR related platforms
- You have a strong understanding