Senior HR Adviser

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The opportunity

If you are a talented and proactive Senior HR Adviser this is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning HR team at a world leading university.

As part of the HR Services Hub, the AskHR team provides excellent administrative and first line HR advice and guidance to all UAL employees and managers via HR shared service model. Our objective is to maintain our Customer Service Excellence standards whilst delivering our HR service goals.  

You will also support individuals across UAL on people and organisational matters through advice, coaching and support and to ensure that they operate effectively and appropriately in the interests of UAL.

About you

You are a talented and proactive Senior HR Adviser, good with people and numbers, and with demonstrable experience of working in complex organisations and a shared service function. You are highly flexible in your approach to work, whether that be at an individual level, or in support of the team, or HR Services hub.

To succeed in this role you will pride yourself on delivering high quality and proactive customer service to multiple stakeholders across different professional levels. You will manage multiple strands of work at any one time and be able to prioritise these depending on customer and HR business needs often to challenging deadlines.

You will be comfortable in managing large volume of HR administrative transactions and providing advice on HR policy and process across the employee lifecycle, as well as a confident user of related HR systems and office technology.

The role is very much customer facing, so relationship building skills are crucial, as well as an understanding of how a fast-paced office environment operates.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact, Zele Akhilele, Resourcing team via email at Peoplestaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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