HR and Operations Coordinator

**About Cool Earth**:
Cool Earth is a climate charity that protects the rainforest by supporting the people who live there. We have been working alongside local and Indigenous rainforest communities for over 15 years in the three largest and most important rainforests in the world, the Amazon, The Congo Rainforest and the Papua New Guinea Rainforest. Indigenous and local communities have been protecting the rainforest for thousands of years, but unfortunately are now facing a humanitarian crisis, lacking necessities like safe drinking water, infrastructure, healthcare, and stable incomes.

This makes rainforest communities vulnerable to exploitation by illegal loggers and extractive industries, who pressure them to sell their land. Once these industries take over, Indigenous peoples are displaced, losing their ancestral homes, culture, and traditional ways of life, and the rainforest is destroyed. Without these forests to regulate the earth’s temperature the climate crisis will only worsen. So what do we do to help?

By working in collaboration with these communities we help support their livelihoods, improve health, sanitation and education and provide tech to help monitor their rainforest. Our main programme involves giving direct unconditional cash to rainforest communities so that they can decide how best to use it in order to improve their quality of life. Rainforest communities can only defend their land from illegal loggers and greedy land grabbers when they themselves are resilient and strong. We help them get to that point.

**About the role**:
We are seeking an experienced, confident and friendly HR and administration expert to support the Head of Operations with fostering a high performing team and ensuring a happy and healthy work environment where everyone can be their most productive selves.

This is a new and varied role that is responsible for all things HR and encompasses wider operational and administrative duties. It will focus on maintaining a high-quality, personable HR function and an efficient office function to support the UK team. It is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about people, loves to keep themselves and others organised, and who wants to make a significant impact in a growing organisation.

You will be expected to provide hands-on HR support and advice to managers and employees in the UK team and lead on coordinating our recruitment. You will also have the opportunity to support the Head of Operations on projects related to EDI, learning & development, data protection, safeguarding and more, making sure every part of the employee life-cycle is second to none and ensuring a positive company culture throughout a period of organisational change and growth.

**Key details**:

- This is a **part-time** (0.6) role.
- This is a home-based, remote role within the UK but may require occasional travel (up to once per quarter) to meet with colleagues. This travel is funded by the organisation.
- The salary range for this role is £30,000-£34,000 FTE (£18,000-£20,400 pro rata) per annum.
- Applications for this role will be reviewed on an on-going basis. We reserve the right to close the role if we find a suitable applicant.

**Job Description and Responsibilities: What you'll do**:
**Employee relations and HR**
- Act as first point of contact for all employee relations in the UK in the first instance, seeking advice and oversight from the Head of Operations where required
- Support SLT, line managers and leadership through any disciplinary, grievance, redundancy or restructuring processes and procedures
- Provide effective, timely and professional HR and employment law advice and guidance to the UK team
- Provide effective guidance and support to managers to help resolve problems and identify solutions
- Keep up to date with employment law in the UK and ensure our policies and processes reflect this

**Recruitment**
- Coordinate the recruitment process for the UK including job adverts, communication with applicants, interviews, contracts, induction and onboarding
- Support global HR colleagues and hiring managers throughout the recruitment process
- Suggest changes to make our recruitment process more inclusive and accessible

**Policies and processes**

Support the Head of Operations where needed to:

- Review the UK staff handbook of policies, updating existing policies where required to ensure they are clear to employees and that Cool Earth is legally compliant
- Suggest new HR/people policies and processes for the UK team based on changes in UK employment law and upcoming priorities or trends that emerge
- Work alongside global HR/Operations colleagues at all times to ensure any policy or process changes are considered from a global perspective and that they are locally appropriate

**Learning, Development and Training**

Support the Head of Operations where needed to:

- Develop and implement a new learning and development offering
- Identify and support any