HR Manager British Council - Manchester

HR Manager

British Council - Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)

Job Description

Working closely with HR Partner (Contracts), to deliver HR partnering support to the business.  To ensure effective provision of agreed HR services, commissioning support from other areas of the HR Directorate and the global Centres of Experience in ways that support the achievement of P&P’s business goals and priorities. 
This will include

• Ensuring effective provision of operational HR services for teams, building capacity and increased ownership of people issues

• Sharing responsibility for the leadership and achievement of HR strategy and goals with the HR Partner
• Commissioning support from other areas of the HR Directorate, the global Centres of Experience and HR colleagues in ways that support the achievement of business goals and priorities
• Actively contributing to the development of P&P’s HR strategy and plans and the engagement of stakeholders across the organisation
• Demonstrating a sound understanding of the business, the wider organisation and external best practice and acting as point of advice and support on HR to ensure people issues are identified, explored, understood and managed in a timely manner
• Establishing and embedding processes, standards, systems and services which promote improvement, consistency, fairness and line ownership of HR issues (in line with corporate policy)
• Designing and embedding MI reports and processes across the full range of people and post data
• Operational workforce planning throughout the whole cycle, including recruitment

Desired Skills & Experience

 

• Understanding of relevant areas of employment law (employment contracts, work-life balance, maternity, discrimination, dismissal, redundancy)
• Analytical / problem solving skills
• Effective interpersonal, communication and relationship building skills, particularly influencing senior leaders
• Project Management (L2)
• Marketing and Customer Services (L2)
• Project design and evaluation
• Project implementation
• HR policy / standards
• Exposure to HR in a matrix / complex organisational structure

Company Description

The British Council creates international opportunities for the people of the UK and other countries and builds trust between them worldwide. We are on the ground in six continents and more than 100 countries. For more information, please visit http://www.britishcouncil.org