Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Edinburgh, is currently looking to recruit an HR Assistant for a 2 month contract on a rate of £14.11/hour PAYE. This role will be hybrid based.
Responsibilities:
- Keep employee records and information on our HR system up to date, undertaking regular audits
- Support regular HR reporting from systems to Executive Team, Board and ad hoc reporting where required.
- Help to plan and manage migration away from paper-based personnel files, working with our data protection officer
- Maintain log of HR policies including tracking review dates, highlighting review deadlines and managing input from the HR team.
- Liaise with suppliers and finance colleagues on HR-related payments, invoices and purchase orders and new supplier forms.
- Manage updates to action trackers, agendas and other documentation
- Work with the highest level of confidentiality and integrity
- Support the delivery of Learning and Development activity across the organisation, including:
- Organising training for employees across the organisation
- Acting as an administrative user for our online learning platforms
- Managing queries to HR through our HR Enquiries inbox, escalating where necessary to the appropriate HR contact.
- Apply knowledge to assist employees with queries and navigation of HR Systems, iHasco, Linkedin Learning and HR related documents on the Information Store.
- Support key HR processes such as induction, recruitment and leavers process, ensuring the appropriate processes are followed.
- Proactively manage a variety of trackers and systems in the HR team
- Support on the evaluation of new and existing roles using our Job Evaluation methodology.
Essential Skills:
- Educated to HNC
- Evidence of an ongoing commitment to CPD
- Strong administration and organisational skills required for this role.
- Highly confidential and discreet
- Good problem solver
- Excellent customer service
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Microsoft office skills – PowerPoint, Access ,Excel, MS Teams and Sharepoint.
- Ability to work to tight deadlines
- Delivering high quality and accurate outputs
- Team work and collaboration skills
- Experience in HR and/ or L&D in a commercial and / or public sector
Desirable Skills:
- A relevant degree ideally within HR (CPP or CIPD)
- Working towards CIPD accreditation.
- Experience of maintaining HR systems
- Minute and note-taking
- Experience working in an HR team dealing with all aspects of a confidential workload
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.