People & Culture Business Partner

2 posts available

Full time, Permanent Fixed Term - one-year connected to a maternity cover Flexible on location, hybrid working available.

Salary: Grade 6 GBP44,682 - GBP49,498 per annum including London Weighting.

Do you enjoy a song and a dance?

At the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama the People and Culture Team are looking for two new business partners to join a transforming business dedicated to furthering the future of performing arts.

Based in Swiss Cottage, we are looking for creative and forward-looking People & Culture (P&C) professionals to join a small generalist P&C Team.

The successful candidate does not need to be located within the London area, we have flexibility to provide hybrid working, with the ability for candidates to travel to the office as and when necessary.

We are delighted to be entering a significant period of change and development across the business, and within the People and Culture Team, over the next two years.

If you are looking for a new challenge, where you can make a difference to People and Culture across a unique performing arts Higher Education business this is the ideal role for you. We can honestly say our People & Culture Team have the most exciting environment and we are privileged to work with professionals who fill our days with beautiful singing, dancing and acting amongst other arts-based activities.

We are transforming the way we work, and we are looking for versatile and team orientated candidates that can demonstrate their ability to work within complex existing processes and structures that are difficult to use. We need team members who can work with us in the existing structure and provide confident P&C experience and innovative ideas that will challenge and enhance our existing practices as we move forward. A specific exciting project that we will be embarking on in 2024 is the review and development of a new HR Database including all processes that feed into this.

Ideally, you will have experience of working within the arts, higher education, public sector body, or have experience of working within a complex business.

We would like to hear from you if you have the following:

A recognised CIPD qualification and/or equivalent experience Experience of advising managers with people issues Experience of managing employee relations cases Have up to date knowledge of UK employment law legislation Excellent and forward-looking IT skills with the ability work remotely whilst keeping a high standard Recruitment, selection, on-boarding and contracting Training and development Payroll, Pay, reward and benefits Review and development of processes for new HR database Equality, diversity and inclusion Knowledge of job evaluation schemes, preferably HERA (the Higher Education Role Analysis system) You will work closely with the Head of P&C, the P&C Manager, Executive Leadership Team, and Heads of Services across the business to ensure the smooth running of P&C operations.

When applying for these roles can you please identify on the application form whether you wish to apply to one or both roles so that we may consider your application appropriately.

Disability Confident Scheme

Central will shortly be launching the Disability Confident Scheme. This recruitment campaign forms part of a pilot to help us structure our 'Disability Confident Committed' framework. This is a government initiative aimed at promoting equal employment opportunities for disabled people and to create a workplace that is welcoming, inclusive and supportive.

We actively encourage disabled people to apply for our job vacancies, and we welcome applications from candidates with all types of disabilities. As part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we commit to offering an interview to a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum selection criteria for the job. To be considered for an interview under this scheme you must have:

a physical or mental impairment, or a long-term health condition which has a substantial and long term (over 12 months) adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities. demonstrated in your application that you meet the minimum job criteria as set out in the advert or person specification for the post. We are committed to diversity and inclusion and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, including neurodivergent candidates, LGBTQ+ and Global Majority backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented within the sector and within Central.

HOW TO APPLY

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If you would like to make an application for the People & Culture Business Partner, please send your application forms by an email by midday on 4th January 2024.

It is anticipated that assessments will take place midday on 15th January 2024, remote testing.

Interviews will be in person and take place on 16th January 2024.