HR Co-Ordinator

Job Description

UE06 £33,882 -39,105

College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures

This position is available on a full time, open-ended basis.

Are you looking for a role in Human Resources? If the answer is yes, and you have excellent time management, interpersonal and organisational skills with experience of working with and advising, HR processes, procedures and practices, we’d love to consider you for the post of HR Co-Ordinator in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC).

The Opportunity

This is your opportunity to contribute to a small, busy, in-demand HR team. It is a wide-ranging, hands-on role, involving a mix of responsibilities that require you to be both pro-active and reactive in task setting and completion and to manage your time according to the annual academic cycle.

Your Skills And Attributes For Success

• Experience of working with, and a proven ability to advise management and other staff members on, HR processes, procedures and practices, ideally in an educational setting.
• Effective interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), ability to deal tactfully and discretely with colleagues when handling confidential or sensitive matters.
• Full range of computing skills and highly proficient/advanced in the use of Excel, reporting systems, databases and creating reports and using and interpreting management information and data to inform decision making and planning.
• Self-motivated, with a proven record of being able to work collaboratively, with the ability to manage and develop effective relationships with all colleagues. A proven record of reviewing and improving methods of working, with a pro-active approach to process review.
• Excellent skills in planning, organising, prioritisation and time-management.
• Previous experience of line management, and training and developing individuals.
• Capable of resolving unforeseen problems, and working independently, often under challenging circumstances and to tight deadlines.
• Accuracy and attention to detail in dealing with data and information critical to work.
• A strong commitment to the delivery of outstanding customer service, with a naturally friendly, approachable manner with a helpful, flexible attitude to change and working with others as part of a team.

We welcome applications for this post from all qualified candidates and particularly from members of minority ethnic groups, who are currently under-represented in LLC.

How To Apply

Applications should be submitted through People & Money. Please submit a CV and covering letter. Additional documents are welcome, but not mandatory. Incomplete applications will not be considered. We do not require references to be provided at the point of application. These will only be requested if you are shortlisted for the position. We will not accept applications via email.

As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme, staff discounts, family friendly initiatives, flexible working and much more.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

Interviews will be held approximately end of January/early February. If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages. On this occasion the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship for this role. International workers will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.

About Us

As a world-leading research-intensive University, we are here to address tomorrow’s greatest challenges. Between now and 2030 we will do that with a values-led approach to teaching, research and innovation, and through the strength of our relationships, both locally and globally.

About The Team

The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures (LLC) is one of the largest Schools in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. We are an international community at the heart of the main University campus, drawing connections between people and cultures both within and beyond our School, and thriving on our place in a global festival city. Based in George Square, we are surrounded by world-class resources and collections.

Teaching and Learning

We offer one of the widest range of languages of any UK university, teaching all six official languages of the United Nations, and eight of the languages of the European Union.

Based in the first UNESCO City of Literature, we are home to the oldest department of English Literature in the UK - one of the longest established in the world - and the oldest Celtic department in Scotland. Arabic has been taught here for over 260 years.

With over 100 undergraduate programmes, many offered with partner Schools in our College, we encourage flexible, interdisciplinary learning. Our four-year undergraduate degrees are specifically designed to enable choice and broaden minds.

Our large postgraduate community comprises students on taught and research masters programmes, as well as a highly active group of PhD candidates. At postgraduate level, we are a leading centre for the study of film, including exhibition and curation, and for comparative literature, intermediality, and translation studies.

Research

LLC is home to many research centres and networks. Often highly interdisciplinary, these groups bring together researchers at all career stages with partners and stakeholders on a range of activities.

In the last Research Excellence Framework (REF) over 70% of the School's research activity was rated world leading or internationally excellent (3* or 4*).