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12-month Fixed-Term contract until 30 May 2026
£51,653 to £57,393 per annum for 35 hours per week.
Working Hours: 35
Location: Kings Cross
Closing Date: 08/04/2025
Job Category: Human Resources
Business Unit: People Directorate
Job Introduction
What you’ll do
At Notting Hill Genesis, we run a proactive, comprehensive, customer-focused HR service across the whole organisation. This is a great opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join us for a fixed term period covering maternity leave and lead a team of HR professionals as we provide an outstanding service for our colleagues and customers.
We are looking for a HR Manager to join our team on a 1-year Fixed-Term contract until approx. 30 May 2026.
How you’ll do it
This HR manager role is pivotal in supporting the organisational drive for high performance, increased manager capability, and great customer service through the timely provision of quality first line and employee relations advisory services and establishment management.
You will ensure employment legislation requirements, appropriate policies and procedures, and good practice are always applied. You will look to minimise business risk and support and coach managers to manage their people effectively, ensuring the provision of excellent proactive, consistent, efficient, and reliable HR advice. This will be alongside ensuring the upkeep and accuracy of establishment data, to ensure timely and accurate data instruction, processing, input and checking for payroll and reporting purposes and the implementation of processes that ensure value for money.
The ideal candidate
We are looking for an experienced HR professional, with a good working knowledge of general HR matters, employment law, and key ER procedures, and experience of managing a team and applying this to operational day-to-day issues, policies, and practices.
You will be trusted to use your expert knowledge of both transactional and advisory HR services to manage a team of HR advisers and HR services Officers, working to established SLAs and successfully meeting all compliance, audit expectations, and KPI standards. This includes the provision of expert, legal, and complex procedural advice and challenge, working to a culture of continuous improvement and ‘first contact resolution’ where applicable, as well as keeping your team on top of our busy payroll.
You will need to have proven experience of managing, motivating, and developing a HR Service/administration team, and interpreting and giving advice on HR policies and procedures, which will allow you to provide sound advice to your team, managers, and colleagues when they have queries. In addition, you need vast experience of developing management capability through coaching and other interventions and of leading on complex ER and change work within a diverse organisation.
We believe it is important that we provide our team with a positive and collaborative working environment, so will ask you to work in our offices based at Kings Cross at least 3 days a week based on team and business requirements.
What’s in it for you?
Once you join us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You’ll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
* Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
* Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
* Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
* Health cash plan
* Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
* Interest-free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 60,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,500 staff. For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit: our careers page.
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
Application Process:
1. If you are interested, please send your CV and supporting statement now! Your supporting statement should contain specific examples from your own experience demonstrating how you meet the professional expertise and skills criteria in the role profile. Closing date is 4th April 2025.
2. Successful candidates will be invited to an interview which will contain a presentation element.
3. For further information or an informal conversation regarding the role please contact Helen Frost, Head of HR Operations.
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
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