HR Support Assistant

If you’re a skilled administrator with HR experience, we’d love to hear from you as we have a great opportunity for an enthusiastic and customer-focussed HR Support Assistant to join our small and friendlyteam. This is a busy?role?which calls for an expertmulti-tasker with a keen eye for detail and a respect for deadlines, systems, processes and people. Being an excellent communicator is paramount for engaging with all of our lovely colleagues, job applicantsand suppliers across the globe.

In this role you’llreport to the Senior Talent Partner and support the HR and Talent team across the full range of services they provide to the business. So your work willspan the employee lifecycle, including recruitment, onboarding, training and development,supporting talent projects and general employee advice and information.

**Here are some of the things you’ll be involved in**:

- Regularly updating our HR system and providing admin information for payroll
- Providing excellent customer service and being the go-to person for employee queries
- Booking and coordinating training and development activities
- Dealing with all recruitment administration
- Providing regular reports on time so that we don’t miss a trick
- Producing high quality letters and documentation to support key communication activities.
- Providing support to the whole HR team on other HR initiatives

**If you have the following, we’d love to hear from you**:

- Proven excellent customer service skills - this role is the first role that potential employees encounter and it’s where our colleagues look for HR support, so you have to love dealing with people
- Strong secondary level education - educated to at least'A’Level standard
- Experience of HR administrationand/or payroll administration
- Fluency in written and spoken business English
- Proven technical competence in document writing, specialist databases and expert user of MSOffice suite
- Ability to prioritise effectively whilst working to tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail

We know it is unusual for someone to tick every box so, if you don’t meet all the criteria, but demonstrate most of the skills and experience we are looking for, and have the enthusiasm to work with us, go ahead and apply.

**What we offer**:
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer employees a comprehensive benefits package including an excellent pension scheme, discretionary annual bonus scheme, private medical insurance, life assurance,?generous annual leave, and a range of flexible benefits.

Our modern and contemporary offices are based in the thriving city centre of Bristol, a stone’s throw away from Temple Meads train station, and within walking distance of Cabot Circus shopping centre, and numerous cafés and restaurants. Named on more thanone occasion as the best city in the UK to live in, Bristol is a cosmopolitan and creative city boasting a historic harbour, internationally renowned cultural institutions and home to world-class festivals and events.

**Flexible Working**:
The contractual location of this role is our Bristol office, but we have recently moved to a hybrid working model with a dynamic and blended combination of office and remote working, dependent on business and team requirements.

**To apply**:
To apply, please submit your CV and a covering letter through our careers site highlighting your previous experience and how it applies to the role, and why you are interested in this opportunity and IOP Publishing.

**About us?**:
IOP Publishing is an international scientific publisher, through which leading-edge research is distributed worldwide. Our rapidly expanding journals programme is published alongside other sources of scientific information in the form of eBooks, magazinesand conference proceedings. Other publications include easily accessible community and regional websites. We are a world leader in the development of electronic publishing for the scientific community and have offices in Europe, Asia and the US. Working inthe interests of science and scientists, we aim to maximise the impact of the research we publish.

IOP Publishing is central to the Institute of Physics, a not-for-profit society. Any financial surplus earned by IOP Publishing goes to supporting science through the activities of the Institute. With a continuing focus on growth, we recognise that everysingle person has a real part to play if we’re to achieve our aim of becoming the world’s leading publisher in our field.

IOP Publishing is an equal opportunity employer. Our vision is that diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are built into our identity in a way that is both natural and sustainable and that is visible through the work we produce, our Ways of Being,our companybranding, our professional networks and the colleagues and communities we serve and support.

We particularly welcome applicants from under-represented backgrounds.