HR Administrator

HR Administrator

Contract:

Permanent Report To:
Head of Human Resources Grade: 2

Hours:

22.5

Location:

West country Rivers Trusts office is in Stoke Climsland, and whilst we have adopted hybrid working, there is an expectation to work from the office on a regular basis and to travel to sites across the delivery area. West country Rivers Trust is recruiting an HR Administrator This is a permanent contract after a successful 4 month probation period The starting salary for this role is £16,128.00 - £16,764.00 pro rata (£26,880.00 - £27,940.00 FTE) per annum (dependent on experience) Benefits while working for West country Rivers Trust
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - 25 days' Annual Leave  Bank Holidays, with a reward for long service - an additional 1 day per year for each year worked over 5 years, up to a maximum of 30 days for employees serving 10 years continuous service
- Additional leave covering the Christmas Closure period - WRT contributes 9% of salary to a personal pension scheme (following a three-month postponement period), plus Life Assurance cover
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Hybrid & Flexible Working Apply by midnight on Sunday 27th September 2026 by selecting the Apply button shown. Interviews will be held in person at our offices in Stoke Climsland on Wednesday 7th October 2026. About the West country Rivers Trust Formed in 1994, the Trust was established to restore West country rivers. Measures to protect rivers can help to save money for farmers, lower costs for water companies, boost tourism, reduce the need to dredge estuaries and even benefit human health.

Today the charity works with a wide range of stakeholders from landowners to local communities, businesses, farmers and water companies to restore and protect the rivers, lakes, estuaries and coastal areas for the benefit of people, wildlife and the local economy. There has never been a more important time to work on the rivers of the West Country as the impacts of climate emergency and the ecological crisis are forcing society to invest in building catchment resilience.

Spurred by a shared love of rivers, the West country Rivers Trust is very much a grassroots organisation, brought into existence from the bottom up. In the early 90s, a group of individuals, passionate but concerned about the waterways around them, began to stitch together their ambitions for restoring West country rivers, laying the foundations for the Trust we know today. Everything the Trust does is informed by the best available science.

Their work is driven by an ecosystems approach, considering the function of the entire catchment, not just the rivers that flow within them. It was this new perspective not to mention the hands-on and tireless approach to river restoration that grabbed the attention of so many supporters and funders, and which lies behind the flourishing rivers trust movement. Since then, the Trust now has circa 75 employees with an annual turnover of c £3m, running multi-annual projects spread across a wide range of funders.

The Trust has three main delivery teams and a support services team. Our employees work on delivery sites, from home, and from the office. About the Role This role plays a key part in delivering efficient and effective HR administrative support, primarily to the HR function, but for the benefit of the whole Trust. It provides administrative support across the full employee lifecycle from recruitment and onboarding through to leavers and contributes to maintaining accurate HR records and ensuring compliance with employment legislation and UK GDPR.

The role also welcomes contributions towards the continued improvement of HR processes and the ways we work to support the Trust and its staff. With a genuine can-do…