HR Advisor

The Opportunity

Save the Children International has an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as the HR Advisor in our Centre London team.

Role Purpose:

Drawing on unique knowledge as a people professional, the post-holder will work closely with the Global Head of HR Operations and HR Business Partners to provide a full operational advisory service for Centre teams including the Advocacy offices. This is a broad generalist role encompassing day-to-day HR and more ad-hoc project work as required. 

The post holder will understand SCI’s People Strategy, direction of travel and employee needs in order to deliver high level people solutions, which help to achieve SCI’s objectives and enable employee happiness and growth.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Good organisational planning skills and a proven ability to work with a large degree of independence, managing own workload and priorities and identifying opportunities to add value to the business. 

• Experience in supporting on change management processes or equivalent training Adaptable and flexible and be able to manage changing priorities. 
• Proven experience of managing a wide range of employee relation’s casework and operating successfully in an advisory capacity with a generalist approach. 
• Demonstrates strong business acumen, ensuring that HR policy or development activity addresses the business needs, providing consistent, business relevant advice to senior line managers and other HR staff. 
• Proactive with plenty of initiative. 
• Knowledge and good understanding of diversity issues including some understanding of issues around gender, age, cultural sensitivity and a commitment to SCI’s values and principles of equal opportunities. 

• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills and an excellent communicator with a high level of written and verbal English. 
• Experience using Excel, Power BI, HRIS or other
• Knowledge of UK employment law.
• Enthusiastic individual who has a positive attitude and is comfortable dealing with employee relations issues.
• Previous experience being involved in HR project work

• Experience in a generalist HR role within a large, complex global organisation.
• Sound knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice across the full spectrum of HR activity.
• Experience of reviewing and drafting HR policies, procedures and guidelines 
• Experience of working closely with specialist HR staff including Reward, L&D & Recruitment Specialists. 
• Awareness of good HR practice in relation to child safeguarding.

• Strong eye for detail, particularly when issuing/drafting legal documents e.g. secondment agreements, employment contracts.

We can offer circa £36,000 per annum (If based in UK) with an option of flexible working hours.

Where we Work –Where We Work | Save the Children International

The Organisation

We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.

We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:

• No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
• All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
• Violence against children is no longer tolerated

We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

Application Information:

Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application, and include details of your salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers/apply

We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.

All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.