HR Officer- Maternity Cover

**Introduction**

Badminton England is the organisation for all things badminton in England for everyone who wants to get involved whatever age, ability or gender. Our people love playing, watching and supporting badminton. We want everyone in England to do the same and become part of the badminton community, whether as a player, coach, volunteer or fan.

With over a million players playing every month, badminton is the nation’s most played racket sport and the sixth-biggest sport overall. We want to inspire everyone to play more, support louder and love badminton, from this generation to the next.

The unique qualities of badminton make it accessible and enjoyable for anyone and everyone. And we work collaboratively with our partners and stakeholders to provide traditional and innovative opportunities for all to be involved; from primary school programmes to adult social badminton, from clubs to counties, and from our world-class coaching development to our major events delivery.

**Role Summary**:
As our HR Officer, you will help Badminton England deliver our People Plan and make this a great place to work. You will manage key people processes relating to the employee lifecycle, keep all our HR systems up to date via our platform HiBob, support our staff through ensuring our policies are understood and implemented, and ensure we are inclusive and supportive to all our team at Badminton England to assist them in delivering the Badminton England Strategy.

**Responsibilities**:
**HR Administration
- Management of all processes linked to Starters, Changes, Leavers via HiBob
- Writing and sending out offer letters and contracts
- Onboarding, Induction, Offboarding
- Requesting references and responding to reference requests
- IT point of contact for new starters and liaison with 3rd party IT provider
- Completion of exit interviews with all leavers
- ** Recruitment
- Liaising with line managers to understand requirements
- Advising on the ATR process and job descriptions
- Supporting with job evaluation and salary benchmarking
- Creation and posting of job adverts
- CV screening and shortlisting
- Arranging interviews
- Making offers

**Reward & Benefits** HR Systems & DataTraining & Development** Employee Relations
- Ensuring starters, changes and leavers are actioned across all benefits
- Scheme information is up to date on Bob
- Liaising with benefits providers as necessary
- Preparing data for salary review
- Super user for all HR systems (including SharePoint, Bob, Team Tailor, Be Learning, etc)
- Ensure data in systems is correct and up to date
- System tester for any system changes
- Provide training to the business as required
- Provide data and reporting as required
- Ensuring mandatory training has been completed, ensuring refresher communications go out as required
- Coordinate learning and development events for staff
- Assist with implementing the new annual review process and monitoring completion rates
- Providing HR advice to line managers and employees on all HR procedures, policies, benefits, etc
- Supporting with complaint/grievance management and disciplinary cases
- Creation of formal meeting invite letters and outcome letters
- Supporting staff in meetings as required (eg, maternity, sickness absence, etc)
- Note-taker in formal meetings (eg, disciplinary, grievance, etc)
- Sickness absence tracking
- Assist line managers with Occupational Health Referrals
- **Who are we looking for**:

- Minimum Level 3 CIPD qualified
- Knowledge of HiBob HR system is a bonus
- Experience in a generalist HR role is required, ideally in a standalone role
- Sound knowledge of HR policies and procedures with ability to implement as required
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels
- Confident, approachable, calm and discreet
- Proactive, with the ability to use initiative and prioritise own workload
- System/IT proficient, comfortable implementing and using new systems
- Ability to multi-task
- Great attention to detail
- Able to work under pressure

**Key information**:
This is a full-time fixed-term (Maternity Cover
- contract length for up to 6 months) role based on 35.58 hours per week. Badminton England has flexible working, with an already established hybrid environment (2 days in the office at National Badminton Centre, Milton Keynes) with our core day being Thursday

**Salary**:£27,000-£30,000 per annum depending on experience

**Application Process**:
Interviews are provisionally scheduled for **Tuesday 4th Feb 2025** at the National Badminton Centre, Milton Keynes

Immediate start desirable

**Job Types**: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months

Pay: £27,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday