Hr Advisor Part-Time

Job Title: HR Advisor

Salary:£24,300 - £30,600 per annum, pro rata, depending on skills and experience

Location: Cambridge with a blend of hybrid working

Contract: Permanent, Part time, 28 hours per week over 4 or 5 days

Are you a HR professional looking to strike that perfect balance between work and life commitments? We're strong advocates for part-time flexible working arrangements that empower you to excel in both spheres.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About the role

As an integral member of the HR team you will be providing a professional and comprehensive HR service, ensuring that our customers receive seamless HR partnering support.

This will involve a wide range of operational activities across recruitment, performance management, reward and benefits, employee engagement, talent development, succession planning and employee relations, and project support.

You will work collaboratively and proactively with line managers to facilitate positive employee engagement by being the trusted source of expert advice on HR matters including contract variations through to flexible working, maternity and paternity and more. 

We will also endeavour to support your self-development, maintaining up-to-date knowledge of employment law, best practice and company policy to help maintain the effectiveness of HR service delivery across Cambridge University Press and Assessment.

About you

You will have some demonstrable HR Generalist experience working at a first line advisory level across a varied range of HR topics as well as:

• A HR related qualification, working towards OR relevant experience
• Confident user of MS Packages and Information systems, preferably Workday but not essential as full training can be provided.
• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships.
• Confidence in providing professional and pragmatic advice to managers

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We will be conducting interviews throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advertisement early once suitable candidates are found. With a closing date for all applications being Sunday 24th March.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to issue sponsorship under the Skilled Worker Visa route for this role as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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