Assistant HR Business Partner

Vacancy Type Fixed Term/Full Time Salary £34,571 to £40,666 (R3) Weekly hours (NB. full-time = 35 hours per week) 35 Location Leeds (Hybrid Working) Final date to receive applications Wednesday, July 1, 2026

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.

Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from The National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.

We are currently recruiting for a full time Assistant HR Business Partner on a fixed-term contract for 12 months, based in our Leeds Office (Hybrid Working).

The primary purpose of this post is to work in the HR Business Partner sub-team, with the HR Business Partners, to support our managers to manage their people. This will include advising on HR policies, processes and practices. There will also be a requirement to deal with employee relation and occupational health casework. Supporting the HRBP team, the wider HR team and the HR Information System project team with work relating to the implementation and role out of HRIS.

If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.

• Applications close on 1 July 2026 at 23:45
• First Stage Interviews are expected to take place on 10 July 2026

Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.

• Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities
• Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage
• Collaborative by working and learning together
• Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week as a minimum. Time spent on site visits or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days.

The other days in the week employees may work from home, subject to meeting certain work station assessment criteria.

We guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria for every vacancy. We always endeavour to make reasonable adjustments and special requirements can be discussed and arranged before an interview.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund pledges to provide an inclusive working and learning environment for our people which prioritises fairness, equality, diversity and inclusion as well as dignity and respect for all. We will create a workspace where intimidation, discrimination, harassment, bullying and victimisation are not tolerated and actively prevented and opposed.