Senior HR Business Partner

at  Kings College London

Job id: 104685. Salary: £63,596 - £72,757 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 20 January 2025. Closing date: 03 February 2025.
Business unit: Human Resources. Department: HR Business Partnering.
Contact details: Imtiaz Ali. imtiaz.ali@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Lavington Street. Category: Professional & Support Services.
About us:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the HR Business Partnering team at King’s College London. Working in a proactive and advisory space, supporting managers and our staff with their people matters.
Senior HRBP’s are the front face of HR, responsible for working with the Directorates and Faculties to align our vision and our people. Working with a dedicated client group you will act as a trusted and credible partner, providing strategic advice, support and guidance on a full range of people matters.
Through an understanding of the business aims and strategic priorities of your client group you will work with senior stakeholders to identify people priorities, shape solutions to their people challenges and drive forward positive change. Using your expertise and knowledge of best practice, you will challenge stakeholders to think more broadly and deeply about people matters.
You will manage a small team and work with colleagues across the HR directorate, drawing on specialist expertise as needed, in the development of local initiatives and will bring business challenges and priorities back to the HR directorate to help shape the development of central initiatives and policies.
About the role:
Key Responsibilities
Build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders across your client group, establishing yourself as a trusted partner in all people and business issues.
Provide expert advice, guidance and support on all people matters for your client group, ensuring strategic input based on a full understanding of the commercial activity and business/academic ambitions of your client group and the broader institution.
Support senior management in all people matters through timely coaching, advice and support.
Work with client group senior leadership to develop annual people plans that support local business plans and strategies, regularly assessing progress and the impact of any interventions.
Own and guide senior recruitment and onboarding
Advise and support on resource and talent management across your client group.
Lead on organisational change, including restructures and TUPE. Support managers in identifying and preparing the rationale for change, advise on change management and lead managers through the process.
Oversee all employee relations issues, managing your team to provide effective resolution to informal and formal issues across your client group.
Ensure thorough understanding of the financial position of your client group and the wider university, working with senior stakeholders and finance to ensure advice is commercially viable.
Analyse and use people data and management information to better understand your client group, working proactively to identify issues/areas for improvement and develop plans to address these.
Facilitate the provision of effective and seamless HR service to your client group, working in collaboration with the wider people partner team, operational HR teams and centres of expertise.
Lead on the implementation of new people policies and approaches for your client group, ensuring effective understanding and adoption.
Support the Director of People in organisational wide projects, as required.
Promote inclusion and diversity as part of the culture of the organisation in all we do, ensuring business decisions and actions reflect this.
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.
About you:
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria:

• Significant HR generalist experience within a complex, ambiguous and unionised environment, with proven success in delivering impactful strategic HR initiatives
• Strong coaching, facilitating and negotiating skills, with experience of working in partnership with senior stakeholders
• Significant experience of leading and managing organisational change
• Strong knowledge of employment law and HR best practice, alongside commercial and financial understanding, to enable demonstrable business focussed advice and decision making
• Experience of leading and managing ER casework, both formally and informally.
• Ability to analyse complex data, identify trends and use findings to inform people strategy and initiatives.
• Evidenced ability to develop, manage and coach team members

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Further Information:
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages

Please refer the Job description for details