People Business Partner

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Job description

Join WaterAid as our People Business Partner and help change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.

WaterAid is a Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation. Your role will involve you building strong professional relationships across the UK directorates, to provide a proactive People Business Partnering service. You will be an enabler and facilitator, helping to ensure that good performance management and best practice is at the centre of all that we do.

You'll be able to use your expertise to enable good change management and increasing employee engagement to its optimum in this role. You will be a trusted advisor to managers at all levels, covering the full employee life cycle. No day is ever the same, so if you thrive on variety and pace, and want to use your know-how to support managers and staff alike to be at their best in order to deliver our ambitious WaterAid mission, then this job is for you.

We are looking for an exceptional People Business Partner, to work in this permanent role. We are happy to explore working arrangements along side hybrid working e.g. part time hours - job-sharing for the right candidate/s. If flexible working arrangements is of interest to you - please state this in your cover letter.

How to Apply:

To see the full job pack, please click 'Apply'. To apply Please submit your CV and a Cover Letter as one document in either Word Document or PDF format. Using the person specification in the job description, explain in your covering letter, in no more than 1500 words:

1. What your top 3 or 4 skills/experience are that you feel meets the requirements of the role and/or would bring added value?
2. Why you want to work for WaterAid?
3. Why you are interested in this particular role?
4. Please state any dates you would not be available for interview at the end of your covering letter.

Shortlisting and interviews will take place on a rolling basis, as applications come in. The application process will close if a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date.

Closing date for all applications: 23:59 on 02/01/2022. Interviews will commence from 16th December, 17th December (am) or 20th December 2021 - so ensure you are available. Interviews will take place via video call on Microsoft Teams. The ideal start date of the successful candidate is on or before the second week of February 2022.

More about the role:

In this role you will be integral in delivering key strategic and operational priorities, supporting managers to bring the best out of their teams. You will be instrumental in providing pragmatic solutions to HR challenges by working collaboratively with managers and key stakeholders across the People and Organisational Development Team.

You'll also:
* Coach and advise managers to embed a high-performance culture, champion the enhancement of management capabilities and provide a perfect balance of support and challenge.
* Provide advice on change management, including restructures, and will use your expertise to support managers to ensure changes are smoothly implemented and legal compliance and best practice are adhered to.
* Help create a recruitment pipeline for future recruitment and workforce planning activity: collaborating closely to solve resourcing challenges that enable us to attract and retain the right talent.
* Support employee engagement initiatives: such as staff surveys, enabling each business area to maximise their potential and create action plans to enhance departmental results.
* Support or lead on specific projects to better enable WaterAid managers and staff to be at their best and deliver results.
* Line manage, develop and motivate a People Advisor.

About you:
To be successful in this role you will need to be resourceful, pragmatic and have sound generalist HR experience.

You'll also need:
* CIPD membership (at Associate or higher) or equivalent relevant experience: and be a confident HR generalist across the entire employee life cycle including recruitment and attraction. You should be able to demonstrate a successful track record of advising and leading on a range of people & ER related matters.
* Practical experience of supporting change (e.g. including restructures, job variations, job evaluations).
* To be a confident influencer/coach, able to build strong relationships and have a good balance between support and challenge. You will have built credibility with business focused managers through providing pragmatic HR solutions.
* To be a collaborator and team player: able to use your planning skills to deliver projects and bring about positive results.
* Good emotional intelligence and be able to navigate ambiguity: comfortable working at pace and tenacious about delivering results. You will also be able to work autonomously.

Salary: £38,000 - £45,000 (depending on experience) with excellent benefits. WaterAid benefits include:

36 days holiday (including Bank Holidays)
Option to buy an extra 5 days annual leave
We offer a generous pension plan with employer contribution of up to 10%
Wide range of flexible and agile-working arrangements
Season Ticket Loan
Free annual eye tests
Pay as You Give charitable giving scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Adoption/Surrogacy pay, Shared Parental Leave and Paternity Leave
Sabbaticals
Volunteer Day

Additional Information:

WaterAid is located in Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. WaterAid is open and supportive of flexibility. We are currently defining our approach to hybrid working. The right balance between office and home-based working should be agreed with your line manager. Your flexibility requirements and that of the role will be discussed at the interview stage with you.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this post. In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct.We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunities, disability-confident employer and committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.