Salary Point 42, £49,535 per annum
Hours 37 hours per week, all year round
Contract Permanent
Location Peterborough
Shape a Compliant and Positive Future as our Group ER & Compliance Manager!
Are you a highly skilled and experienced HR professional with a passion for employee relations and a deep understanding of UK employment law? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can make a real impact on an organisation's culture and compliance? If so, we want to hear from you!
We're seeking a dedicated and proactive Group ER & Compliance Manager to join our People Services team in Peterborough. This is a crucial permanent, full-time role (37 hours per week, all year round, worked flexibly) where you'll be instrumental in shaping our employee relations practices and ensuring robust legal compliance across all IEG sites. You'll report directly to our Executive Director of People Services and manage a small, dedicated team of HR professionals.
What You'll Do:
As our Group ER & Compliance Manager, you'll be at the forefront of:
* Leading Complex ER Cases: Take charge of formal employee relations casework, from disciplinary and grievance matters to absence and performance concerns, ensuring timely, consistent, and legally sound resolutions, including dismissals. You'll also manage ACAS early conciliation and employment tribunal proceedings, working closely with our legal advisors.
* Driving Policy Excellence: Lead the development and maintenance of legally compliant employment policies and procedures, ensuring they reflect ACAS guidance and sector best practice.
* Ensuring Compliance & Mitigating Risk: Be our expert on UK employment law, ACAS guidance, safeguarding responsibilities, and sector-specific regulations (including Ofsted and ESFA standards). You'll advise senior leaders on risk mitigation and ensure consistent application of HR policies.
* Empowering Leaders: Develop and deliver essential training to line managers on employee relations, safeguarding, and legal compliance, fostering a proactive and knowledgeable management team.
* Supporting Organisational Growth: Play a key role in organisational change initiatives, including restructures, redundancies, TUPE, mergers, and acquisitions, and contribute to wider organisational development activities.
* Championing EDI: Lead and champion equality, diversity, and inclusion, embedding best practice and promoting a respectful and positive workplace culture.
* Strategic Reporting: Monitor and report on ER case data and probation management to identify trends and inform strategic interventions.
What You'll Bring:
We're looking for an individual with an exceptional blend of skills, knowledge, and experience:
Skills:
* Exceptional Rapport Building & Influence: Ability to build strong relationships, establish credibility, and professionally challenge practices when needed.
* Outstanding Organisation & Project Management: Adept at juggling competing priorities and leading projects with clarity and purpose.
* Strong Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce high-quality reports, policies, and procedures.
* Analytical Acumen: Skilled in manipulating and analysing data to extract meaningful insights.
* Resilience & Professionalism: Ability to provide and receive constructive feedback while remaining professional and resilient.
Knowledge:
* In-depth Employment Law Expertise: Strong knowledge of UK employment legislation and regulatory frameworks (Equality Act 2010, TUPE, GDPR, Working Time Regulations, etc.).
* Statutory Requirements: Excellent understanding of statutory requirements like Right to Work, auto-enrolment, DBS, holiday pay, and family leave.
* Tribunal & ET Processes: Excellent working knowledge of tribunal risk assessment and mitigation, and detailed knowledge of preparing employment tribunal bundles.
* FE Sector Understanding: Solid knowledge of the Further Education sector, particularly "keeping children safe in education (KCSIE)."
Experience:
* Strategic HR Partnering: Proven experience operating as a strategic HR partner in a large and/or complex organisation.
* Change Management: Strong experience leading end-to-end change projects, including redundancy, redeployment, and TUPE.
* Complex ER Case Management: Extensive experience managing complex ER cases up to and including dismissal, ACAS early conciliation, COT3, and employment tribunals.
* Performance & Absence Management: Proven experience advising and managing performance improvement and sickness absence policies and procedures, including ill-health retirement and Death in Service.
* Settlement Agreements: Experience in carrying out without prejudice conversations and negotiating settlement agreements.
Qualifications:
* CIPD Level 7 or equivalent experience
* Minimum of Level 2 Literacy and Numeracy (GCSE English Language and Maths Grade C/4 or above, or equivalent).
* ILM Coaching Certificate or equivalent is desirable.
Why IEG?
* Competitive Leave: 30 days of annual leave, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas close down. (Pro-rata for part time staff)
* Financial Security: Local Government Pension Scheme
* Supportive Environment: Benefit from a gym, free on-site parking, access to employee assistance programme and a friendly team atmosphere
* Professional Growth: Ongoing training and development opportunities
If you're ready to take on this challenging and rewarding role, we encourage you to apply!
Safeguarding Statement
IEG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and any vulnerable groups within the college community and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Successful candidates will be subject to a thorough vetting process which includes an enhanced DBS check and satisfactory references.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Exceptions Order 1975, provides information about which convictions must be declared during job applications and related exceptions and further information about filtering offences can be found in the DBS filtering guide.
Candidates are reminded that if they are barred from working with Children it is a criminal offence to apply for this position. #J-18808-Ljbffr