HR Coordinator

Garden Organic is looking for a Fixed Term (Maternity Cover) HR Coordinator to support the day-to-day aspects of people management in our organic gardening Charity.

Role: Garden Organic HR Coordinator

Location: Ryton Head Office

Key Requirements: Garden Organic is looking for a Fixed Term (Maternity Cover) HR Co-Ordinator to support the day-to-day aspects of people management in our organic gardening Charity. The role encompasses all areas of the employment life cycle, from recruitment to induction and off boarding employees.

Hours: Part time (3 days)

Duration: Maternity cover - June 2027

Salary: Competitive, based on experience

Role subject to DBS Check: No

At Garden Organic we care about organic growing, composting, seed conservation, research and citizen science. Our small but hugely knowledgeable and committed team is backed by a family of members and volunteers, all dedicated to growing food and flowers in harmony with nature. We are an established, experienced and innovative membership charity, working in communities around the UK and campaigning for organic practice which protects and promotes life above and below the soil.

Now in our seventh decade, we are also home to the vitally important Heritage Seed Library a living collection of 800 rare vegetable varieties that otherwise would have died out.

Our mission is to show people how to be organic growers and in doing so, we strive to be a great place to work, volunteer or partner with. We care about what we do, how we do it, and the impact we make. We believe that our time is now - when people are actively seeking positive contributions that they can make in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change.

Garden Organic is looking for a Fixed Term (Maternity Cover) HR Co-Ordinator to support the day-to-day aspects of people management in our organic gardening Charity. The role encompasses all areas of the employment life cycle, from recruitment to induction and off boarding employees.

This position provides administrative support and advice to our managers and their small but highly skilled and dedicated teams. It also has responsibility for the management of our HRIS, to include data input, reporting and managing queries.

As part of a small but successful charity, the role will have a broad remit, requiring flexibility and curiosity in all aspects of our people management practices, ethos and goals.

You will be working closely with our external HR consultant, who is in the office one day a week, and reporting to our ‘Director of Finance and Corporate Resources’ and your core responsibilities and main duties are as follows:

• Provide full recruitment support
• Complete our onboarding processes for new employees, to include right to work checks, reference requests, preparing contracts, job descriptions and other paperwork as required
• Organise, schedule and administer our Induction & Probation processes
• Process leavers and complete exit interviews as required
• Support the charity with its continuous review of policies and procedures
• Support the Finance Director to process monthly payroll and pension updates
• Provide full administrative management of employee records
• To provide administrative support and advice for all employment and SafeHR queries
• Manage incoming and outgoing emails via the HR inbox
• Regularly update the Organogram and internal HR data
• Process employee benefits and platform access (communication, processing)
• Provide Safeguarding support to the Chief Executive and wider charity
• Oversee annual leave entitlement, to include reporting, ad hoc queries and the annual carry over process
• Arrange training for new and existing employees
• IT set up for new and existing employees
• Mobile Phones - record keeping and assigning to employees
• Provide a quarterly…