Senior HR Business Partner

Employer: University of the Arts London
Location: Hybrid – UAL High Holborn/Home
Salary: £58,193 to £70,291 per annum
Contract: Full time
Hours: Full time

Job description

The opportunity

Are you a proven HR Business Partner who loves supporting the strategic delivery of HR services? Would you like to work in a diverse client group and department? Are you looking to advance your HR career within a world leading organisation undergoing an exciting period of change?

We are seeking a proven Senior HR Business Partner to support the delivery of an exceptional HR service and play a key role in deploying our long-term People Strategy.

You will lead on business partnering work within a designated client group, inspire and coach other HR Business Partners, playing an integral part of the People Department, working under the overall direction of the Associate Director of HR (Business Partnering).

The core purpose is to work closely with specific client groups to focus on:

• Organisational and people capability building
• Longer term resource and talent management planning
• Using business insights to drive change in people management practices
• Leading and advising on the people implications of organisation change

If you have any questions about the role, we would love to hear from you. No agencies.

About you

We value the diverse experiences candidates bring to UAL. Our people come from a variety of sectors and therefore applications are open to those both with and without previous experience of working in the higher education sector. Most important will be your demonstrable business partnering experience gained within a comparable sized organisation.

CIPD qualified or equivalent, you will bring to the role a working knowledge of contemporary approaches to business planning, organisational design, workforce planning, strategic resourcing, capability management, change management, and employee engagement. You will have experience and understanding of organisational design as well as experience of leading change.

You will be an effective communicator with strong coaching skills who relishes the opportunity to be at the forefront of change and continuously adapt accordingly. 

We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible as the closing date may be brought forward depending on the volume of applications received.

Even if you're not sure if you meet this, we would still love to hear from you.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2022 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

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