Junior People and Culture Consultant

The opportunity

Are you an HR professional ready to take the next step in a role that offers variety, responsibility and scope to grow? At University of the Arts London, we are seeking a Junior People and Culture Consultant to join our People and Culture team and help deliver our service across one of the world’s most renowned creative universities. This role is being offered on a permanent basis. 
 
As a Junior People and Culture Consultant, you will provide high-quality, professional and customer-focused HR advice and guidance across a broad range of employee relations and people-related matters. You’ll support casework, change initiatives and policy development, while helping managers apply best practice in fair and practical ways. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to continuous improvement, challenge existing processes, and promote UAL’s values of equality, diversity and inclusion.

Your profile

You will bring solid experience in providing professional HR advice and guidance, particularly in relation to employee relations issues such as sickness absence, performance management, workplace adjustments and organisational change. Ideally, you will also have experience of working with trade unions and HR information systems.
 
You will be CIPD qualified (or have equivalent relevant experience) and have a sound understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Skilled in building relationships and working collaboratively, you will be an excellent communicator and problem-solver, confident in supporting managers to make fair and well-reasoned decisions.
 
This role is well suited to an HR professional who has established their foundation and is now ready to build on it in a supportive and forward-thinking team.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University, we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That’s why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our application portal. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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