• Locations

  Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

• Salary

  £49352 - £49535 per annum

• Sector

  HR, HR, Marketing & Sales

• Type

  Permanent

Morgan Hunt is proud to be exclusively partnering with Inspire Education Group (IEG), based in Peterborough or Stamford, in their search for a permanent People Partner for their newly restructured People Services team.

About Inspire Education Group:

Inspire Education Group is a thriving further and higher education organisation serving over 10,000 students across Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire. The Group comprises:

· Peterborough College

· Stamford College

· University Centre Peterborough

IEG delivers a wide-ranging curriculum, from vocational qualifications and apprenticeships to higher education and adult learning. Everything we do is focused on transforming lives – through inspirational learning, strong partnerships and future-focused strategy.

We have recently been rated Good by Ofsted with a strong judgement for meeting skills needs, and we’re well on our way from good to exceptional.

The Role:

As the People Partner, you will act as an operational and, where appropriate, strategic partner to leaders and managers within a designated part of the organisation, providing expert HR advice, guidance, coaching and support in line with IEG policies and procedures, to drive and enable workforce effectiveness.

The role works closely with leaders and managers to align people strategies with business objectives, delivering workforce planning, recruitment, probation management, performance management, informal employee relations, change management, employee engagement, talent development and succession planning while ensuring compliance with employment law and sector-specific regulations.

Key Responsibilities:

· Partnering with leaders and managers to develop and implement workforce plans aligned with strategic objectives and managing flexible working requests,

· Leading the recruitment and selection processes working in partnership with hiring managers and working closely with the People Services Delivery team to ensure that the recruitment, on-boarding and induction administration processes are delivered at pace.

· Working closely with leaders and managers to ensure that performance management practices comply with IEG’s policies and procedures.

· Working closely with the ER and Compliance Manager to provide expert guidance on complex employee relations matters including the mitigation of risk, ensuring fair and lawful outcomes.

· Leading on sickness absence management in line with IEG’s policies and processes, with the aim of maximising productivity of the workforce, referring formal cases to the ER & Compliance Manager.

· Leading and championing the employee value proposition, so that EVP is maximised to continuously improve employee engagement, measured via the employee survey.

· Leading change management projects and programmes including re-structures, TUPE, mergers and acquisitions and cultural change ensuring regulatory and legal compliance.

· Supporting organisational development activities including leadership development, coaching and succession planning, working closely with the Group Learning and Organisation Development Manager and the executive Director of People Services.

· Ensuring that HR policies, procedures and practices are consistently applied and legally compliant reporting concerns and continuous improvement opportunities to the ER and Compliance Manager enabling them to drive changes to employment-related policies.

· Leading and championing equality, diversity and inclusion embedding best practice across the organisation.

· Leading and/or contribute to key HR projects as directed by the Executive Director of People Services.

We are looking for an experienced and motivated People Partner that is CIPD Level 5 or Level 7 qualified hat is able to establish credibility, influence and build strong trusting relationships quickly across all levels. The ability to manage conflicting priorities is essential and able to project manage with clarity and purpose and to quality and time standards.

You will be able to demonstrate experience of operating as a strategic HR Partner in a large and complex organisation. In addition, demonstrable experience of leading end to end change management projects including; redundancy, redeployment, TUPE, mergers and acquisitions.

This is a great opportunity for someone that wants to work in an organisation that really cares about it’s staff, its strategy and mission. IEG offers incredible benefits to their staff, to name a few benefits:

· A generous holiday entitlement of between 41-48 days holiday per annum (depending on the role)

· Local Government Pension Scheme

· Continuous professional development options tailored to your specific needs and requirements

· Generous occupational sick pay

· Discounts for teachers (available to all staff)

· Free breakfast every day for all staff and students

· Discounted gym memberships

· Flu jab clinic that runs every October

· Eye care vouchers

· Cycle to work scheme

Applications close on Thursday 23^rd October. Interviews will be conducted on the 27^th and 28^th October.

Morgan Hunt is a multi-award-winning recruitment business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies. Morgan Hunt is an equal opportunities employer. Job suitability is assessed on merit in accordance with the individual’s skills, qualifications and abilities to perform the relevant duties required in a particular role.