Tupe Project Consultant

**About the Role**:
This is a key consulting role where you will leverage your deep knowledge of TUPE and its international equivalents to advise on upcoming business transfers and service provision changes. You will work closely with our HR, Legal, and Project Management teams, providing strategic and practical expertise to mitigate risks and ensure fair and compliant employee transfers across various jurisdictions.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Due Diligence**: Conduct thorough due diligence on transferring employee populations, analysing employment terms, liabilities, and pension implications in a global context.
- **Compliance Assurance**: Ensure full compliance with relevant TUPE and international employment laws, internal policies, and best practices throughout the transfer process.
- **Strategic Planning**: Develop and implement detailed transfer plans, including risk assessments, stakeholder engagement strategies, and global employee communication frameworks.
- **Consultation Management**: Advise on and support formal consultation processes with employees, employee representatives, and trade unions across different cultural and legal landscapes.
- **Issue Resolution**: Identify and resolve complex cross-border employment issues arising from TUPE transfers, working closely with legal counsel and local HR teams.
- **Documentation & Reporting**: Assist in preparing essential documentation, ensuring transparency and legal compliance for all transfer-related activities globally. Monitor and report on progress, escalating risks and proposing mitigation plans as appropriate.
- **Stakeholder Engagement**: Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders (HR, Legal, Project Management) and external partners (transferring entities, local legal advisors, trade unions) in a multinational environment.

**Required Experience & Skills**:

- **International Employment Law**: Demonstrable knowledge of key principles of international employment law related to business transfers and employee protection.
- **Consulting Experience**: Prior experience working as a consultant, providing strategic and practical advice to diverse clients on complex HR and employment law matters.
- **Project Management Skills**: Ability to manage competing priorities, maintain exceptional attention to detail, and deliver to tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.
- **Communication & Influence**: Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels, both domestically and internationally.
- **Problem-Solving**: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, capable of identifying nuanced risks and developing practical, legally sound solutions for global scenarios.
- **Adaptability**: Ability to quickly adapt to new environments and understand diverse legal and cultural contexts.
- **Qualifications**: Relevant HR or legal qualification highly desirable (e.g., CIPD Level 7, legal degree with employment law specialisation).

**Contract Details**:

- ** Duration**: 2-4 weeks (flexible based on project scope and needs).
- **Location**: Remote/Hybrid (to be discussed, with potential for occasional on-site engagement as required).
- **Start Date**: Immediate availability preferred.

If you are a highly experienced TUPE expert with a strong track record in navigating global transfer regulations and processes, we encourage you to apply. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact on critical international projects.

**About us**:
A&O IT Group is an award-winning, fast-growth, global IT services and cyber security consultancy operating in over 130 countries. A&O IT Group is proud to sit within the Stock Exchange's Top 1000 most inspirational companies in the UK.

**OUR VALUES**:
Our team prides itself on our core values and commitment to **doing the basics brilliantly**. If you too strive to **engage & delight**, we would love to hear from you.