HR Manager
Have you ever wanted to be a HR professional in an organisation that truly cares about its staff?
Are you excited by EDI, employee wellbeing and empowering others to be the best that they can be? If so, this might be exactly the role you’ve been waiting for!
In this role, you’ll lead a team of graduate and student staff in delivering a HR service to our friendly managers and staff. Since we’re a Students’ Union (a charity in the education sector), we’re all about learning and helping people find out what gets them up in the morning!
We take a collaborative approach to how our organisation is run, and we’re always working together to change how we operate and grow what we do, so you’ll enjoy this role if you’re the sort of person that is always up for looking at a problem from a different angle to find creative solutions. The bonus is, you’ll also be part of a community of Human Resources professionals working in Students’ Unions who have regular meetups and shared forums where they support one another and problem solve together, so help from them, your line manager or your colleagues is never far away!
Over the next year the sorts of projects that might be on your to-do list include:
- Supporting our Interim CEO and your manager with our Pay Review Project which aims to improve staff satisfaction with pay
- Working with managers to roll-out an Organisational Staff Training Plan, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Training as e-learning for easier access
- Updating our Absence Management Policy and Procedure to make it more user friendly
As our People Manager, you’d be supported by the head of department (Boo Sherriff), who is happy to chat with you about the role if you’ve got questions ahead of applying; boo.s@sussexstudent.com.
You can also find out a bit more about our team if your interested, by browsing our Staff Bios here.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Job title: HR Manager
Responsible to: Head of Central Support
Responsible for: HR Assistant, HR Administrator, Training Administrator
Salary: £27,758-£29,438 full-time equivalent per annum, pro rata. It is normal to be appointed at the first point on the pay scale but this is open to negotiation in certain circumstances.
Hours of work: Up to full-time (36.5 hours per week). Part-time hours/a job share would be considered for people with care commitments or as reasonable adjustments
Contract: Permanent
Applicants: Open to everyone
Location: Falmer House, University of Sussex, BN1 9QF. However, we are supportive of hybrid working with staff expected to work a minimum of 50% of their hours from the office, unless otherwise agreed with their line manager.
For more details please see the full Job Description and Person Specification
KEY DATES
Applications close: We are reviewing CVs on a rolling basis and reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. We would advise you to submit your CV as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
Start Date: As soon as possible
If you have any issues or questions regarding your application please get in touch with hradmin@sussexstudent.com
COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION
We are really committed to maintaining a diverse workforce because we know how important it is to have decision makers and collaborators with varied lived experiences and backgrounds that reflect the range of needs from our diverse student community.
We welcome applications from everyone, and we want to strongly encourage applications from; people with an ethnic minority or Chinese background, people with a disability, people with dependants, and people who identify as LGBTQ+. We conduct anonymous shortlisting and all of our interview panels have Unconscious Bias Training in order to support the above. We also consider flexible working for those with care commitments. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve our language or application process please let us know.
ABOUT US
We are looking for skilled, friendly and highly motivated people who share our vision and values.
With our vibrant environment and organisational culture, the Students Union is a dynamic workplace only a few places could match. Led by students we are all about working with students to help them get the most out of their time here at the University of Sussex or Brighton and Sussex Medical School.
Whilst being located on Sussex Campus - close to Brighton & Hove - we are separate from the University, something that is crucial to our campaigning and lobbying work.
According to last year's Staff Engagement Survey, the best things about working here is the supportive environment with great people who you can trust and respect as well as the ability to work flexibly for most roles.
Although we have different departments we think of ourselves as one big team and are often working all together on projects or helping each other out at big events such as Freshers week or Elections.
Whilst we cannot really brag about offering the most competitive pay, as is often the case in the third sector, we feel we have a lot of other things going for us, which more than make up for our less competitive salaries.
Working on Sussex Campus and for the SU has lots of perks: Our staff get access to enhanced time off, which normally amounts to an extra 6 days leave in addition to 20 days of annual leave per year, and bank holidays. Plus, owning our own venues means we have £1 Staff Drinks in our Bars on a Friday - a great and fun way to get to know your coworkers. We also organise regular staff socials and events throughout the year and pride ourselves on having numerous learning and development opportunities for all our roles and creating a supportive workplace with regular 1 to 1s, an employee assistance programme and professional health services. You can read up more about our benefits below or on our benefits package.
If this sounds like the workplace you’d like to join, we would love to receive your application and get to know you!
STAFF AND APPLICANTS WITH LONG TERM CONDITIONS
The Students’ Union aims to implement reasonable adjustments for all staff and applicants with disabilities, creating a culture of cooperation, shared responsibility and proactiveness to ensure equitable access to jobs. We want to make sure everyone is supported in our selection processes, and are equipped to work safely and get as much as possible out of their role as possible.
For more information about the support we have available follow this link.
STAFF BENEFITS
GETTING PAID
Everyone working in the UK needs a National Insurance number in order to get paid. If you are a UK citizen you will automatically have this, however if you are not a UK Citizen you might want to apply for an NI number at the same time as you apply for a job so there is no delay in your payments. You can do so using this link: https://www.gov.uk/apply-natio....
Please note you cannot apply for a National Insurance Number until you're in the UK, but this should not stop you from completing your application for this role.
INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
Due to legal regulations we have to ensure that everyone is eligible to work in the UK and this would be done by us checking and making a copy of the correct original identification/documentation before your first day of work. However, we do not ask for your eligibility to work during the application or interview stage. You may also be limited in the number of hours you would be allowed to work.
Find out more information about applying to work in the UK. In any case, we would encourage anyone to apply for a job in one of our friendly departments to give yourself the chance of being selected, and we would look to see the appropriate original documents before your first day of work.
MORE INFORMATION
To find out more about working for the Students' Union go to: