HR Adviser

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The opportunity

Do you want to further your HR career within a world-renowned organisation? 

UAL is seeking a HR Adviser to play a key role in our ASK HR team. If you’re passionate about HR and the employee lifecycle, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

As a HR Adviser, you will support the ASK HR team to ensure that UAL acts as a good employer and meets all of its relevant obligations. 

Your responsibilities will include: 

• Providing advice, coaching, and guidance to individuals to resolve routine and more complex HR related issues
• The administration of UAL’s People policies, procedures and programmes
• Supporting the employee onboarding process
• HR administration e.g. Payroll and contractual changes, iTrent administration
• Maintaining employee files and records
• Supporting colleagues within the People Strategy hub in the development of People programmes and frameworks
• Gathering and analysing data with useful HR and business metrics and producing written reports.

 

About you

A broad range of HR knowledge and experience of managing key aspects of the employee life cycle is essential, as is experience of working within an HR Operations, ‘Shared Service’ or Helpdesk environment. 

Proven experience of providing professional advice and guidance to employees at all levels is equally important. 

Experience of working in the HE sector is desirable but not essential.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Becky Hatch, Resourcing Adviser 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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