People Manager, HR​/Recruitment

Contract Type: Permanent

A key leadership role in enabling UET to build a person centred and commercial organisation which retains its values driven approach.

• Senior HR/OD professional having substantial and broad experience in a variety of HR/OD roles, including providing leadership to an HR/OD team.
• Experience of leading the design and delivery of best practice people strategies, driven significant cultural and structural change in multi-site organisations, having influenced senior leaders.
• Experience of organisation development, talent management and succession planning, culture change and employee relations will be important.
• Proven record of managing change programmes in organisations, ‘making things happen’, operating at pace and delivering effectively through others.
• Strong working knowledge of employment law issues and the ability to apply these using a pragmatic approach
• Graduate educated (or equivalent)
• Post Graduate Diploma in HR and/or Masters Degree
• Member or Fellow of CIPD
• Strong leadership skills which are able to quickly establish credibility and respect
• Able to build strong working relations and influence and persuade others
• Is an energetic, enthusiastic, values-led individual with a pro-active, ‘can do’ approach
• Numerate with good analytical skills, able to understand charity finances and the ability to use this information to support initiatives in the most appropriate way
• A strategic thinker with pragmatic, practical hands-on approach
• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
• Feel motivated by a strong social ethos and/or possess the desire to make a difference in our society
• The ability to engage and collaborate with a variety of groups with varying agendas in an evolving environment
• Ability to operate with pace and dynamism

Hours: Full
-Time 37 hours

Monday to Thursday, 08:00 – 16:00 Friday, 08:00 – 15:30

Uplands Enterprise Trust
Stratton Road
Swindon
Wiltshire
SN1 2PN