People/hr Administrator

**About Us**: We are a team of passionate individuals, developing ground-breaking biological technologies designed to sustainably, and safely, control insects that transmit diseases and destroy crops. We do this work to improve lives and livelihoods around the world in the face of the growing threats that insects pose to human health and the global food supply. Whilst what we do relates to developing insect control technologies, Oxitec is about people and is in service to people. We are strongly committed to a set of values, principles, and behaviours, and foster a culture of trust, respect, creativity, and accountability. Click here to learn more, and here to read our CEO’s blog about trust and our culture. **Purpose of the Job**: We are seeking a highly organised and detail-oriented People Administrator to join our dynamic People team. You will play a crucial role in supporting our HR functions, ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of day-to-day HR activities. You will maintain and build our employee end to end life-cycle processes, support our recruitment activities, and get involved in any adhoc HR related projects and initiatives. **Responsibilities**: - Managing the employee lifecycle and related administration, including: - maintaining and optimising the use of our HRIS (database), documents, and all employee records, and communications; - delivering and improving our pre-boarding, onboarding & offboarding experience; - managing the general HR inboxes for UK and US, acting as a point of contact for employee enquires and providing information on HR policies and procedures; - supporting benefit enrolment, renewal, administration, and promotion. - Supporting our recruitment activities, including: - posting job adverts, organising interviews, interview screening, and feedback; - ensuring background and reference checks are completed prior to new employees joining the business; - preparing and maintaining HR documentation, including offer letters, contracts and other HR related correspondence, ensuring signed copies are obtained and retained. - Assisting the People Advisor with monthly payroll administration and ensuring all deadlines are met; - Generating monthly and ad-hoc HR reports, and assisting in data analysis for HR metrics, using HRIS tools and MS Excel; - Providing general administrative support to the global People team, including scheduling meetings, maintaining HR files and contributing to adhoc projects and initiatives. **Skills, Experience, and Education Requirements**: - Proven experience in HR administration role; and / or - Bachelor's degree in Human Resources / CIPD level 3 certificate; - Basic understanding of UK employment law, HR processes, policies and best practice; - Outstanding organisation, time-keeping and prioritisation skills; - High attention to detail; - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; - Ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team; - Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to tasks; - Proficient in MS Office Suite and HRIS (Human Resources Information System - we use BambooHR). ***: **Behavioural Requirements**: - Commitment to and passion for the Oxitec mission and values; - Confidentiality and discretion; - The environment is fast-paced and ever changing, and requires someone who thrives on learning and change, and has a growth mind-set with a desire to stretch themselves, learn and grow; - Positive, humble, co-operative and professional always; - Work with a sense of urgency and solve things promptly; - Resilient and persistent in an innovative; - Role models professional behaviour at all times; - Integrity, demonstrated through consistency of actions and values; - A can-do attitude - "sleeves rolled up" ready to do what is necessary; - Results-driven and action-orientated; - An end-to-end operator, who sees something through to the end - a "completer-finisher"; - Display a demonstrated commitment to focusing on business needs and setting high standards to ensure quality work is maintained.