Title: HR Officer
Salary: £30,939
Hours: Full time 35 hours Monday to Friday.
Location: Hammersmith, London, 2 days per week with activity based working.
Contract: Permanent
Closing date: Midnight Sunday 6 July 2025
The Role:
Reporting to the Head of HR and Corporate Services, the HR Officer will take responsibility for the operational delivery of the organisation’s key People and HR activities and initiatives. You will have a strong knowledge of all aspects HR to provide proactive, practical support on day-to-day operations delivering support to team members and managers, advising on HR policies and good practice, working across the organisation to deliver recruitment processes, and delivering and tracking Learning & Development plans. You will also support wider strategic initiatives working with the Head of HR and Corporate Services to embed new strategies and projects.
The ideal candidate will exhibit a strong work ethic, reliability, independence, and the flexibility to adapt to new challenges and learn new skills to:
- Coordinate and administer all stages of the employee life cycle
- Manage HR systems and ensure compliance with policies and GDPR
- Lead on recruitment administration and support interview processes
- Deliver engaging HR inductions for new starters
- Coordinate training, training plans and maintain learning records
- Support monthly payroll processes and address related queries
- Maintain accurate employee data and produce regular reports
- Contribute to HR projects and team initiatives
The Individual:
We are looking to appoint someone who is an enthusiastic and a dedicated self-starter able to manage their own workload and use their knowledge and experience of HR matters to support both staff and the organisation.
You should have a solid understanding of UK employment law and practices, supplemented ideally with CIPD qualifications although this is not essential. Strong communication skills, both written and verbal are necessary along with excellent interpersonal abilities to form and sustain relationships across the whole organisation fostering a welcoming, inclusive work environment, ideally with experience derived from a values driven organisation.
Essential:
- Strong administrative experience and excellent attention to detail
- Proven ability to coordinate workflows and meet deadlines
- Solid IT skills (Microsoft Office Suite and HRIS)
- Experience in a values-driven or not-for-profit organisation
- Ability to communicate clearly in spoken and written English
- Right to work in the UK
Desirable:
- CIPD qualification or working towards one.
What we offer
Women’s Pioneer champions and celebrates diversity, proud of our welcoming and inclusive working environments. We strive to be a great place to work offering generous leave and a flexi time working pattern for many roles. Our corporate office is in Hammersmith west London and operate a formal flexible working pattern and hybrid working which requires all staff to work from the office every Tuesday and at least one other day each week. Applicants must be able to affirm their ability and willingness to work within this policy. We will provide the technology to support you with hybrid working.
Other considerations
As part of our safeguarding commitment to our clients, we carry out preemployment checks to ensure that successful applicants are suitable to work with adults at risk. These include basic DBS checks, obtaining references and verifying a candidate’s identity and right to work in the UK.
All qualified applicants already eligible to work in the UK will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status or pregnancy. If you need us to make any special accommodations in the recruitment and selection process because of a protected characteristic, please let us know.
How to Apply
To apply, please submit the Diversity Monitoring Form, your CV, and a supporting statement (up to one page of a single A4 page) outlining:
- Why you are interested in the role
- What skills you would bring to be successful in this role
- Any experience you would like to highlight
Your supporting statement should refer to the job description and person specification outlining your competency, experience and skills relevant to this role providing examples of how you have successfully delivered in the key areas. A completed application will include all three documents.
This position is only open to applicants with an existing right to work in the United Kingdom.
Closing date: Midnight, Sunday 6 July 2025
Interviews & assessments: Thursday 17 July 2025 Hammersmith, West London.
Please apply by sending the above documents to hr@womenspioneer.co.uk.
This role requires strong interpersonal skills. We believe the dynamic format of face-to-face interviews offers a higher level of engagement and provides candidates with a unique experience of our organisation. We are unable to substitute these interviews and assessments with a virtual interview.
Please view the recruitment pack below for more information.