Job Title: HR Systems Manager Salary: Commencing at £44,362 with progression to £47,056 per annumClosing Date: About the Role
Luminate Education Group are looking for an HR Systems Manage r who will play a key role in keeping our HR systems effective, user-friendly, and aligned with the needs of colleagues and leaders across all campuses.
This is a key role, ensuring our systems are reliable and continually improving, supporting great colleague experiences through effective self-service, high-quality data and insightful reporting.
The team is based at our Park Lane Campus, offering excellent transport links, with the train station just a 10–15 minute walk away and bus services stopping directly outside. Hybrid working is available for this role.
What You Will Do
* Take overall ownership of HR systems, including system administration, ongoing management, testing, upgrades and user support.
* Lead the design, development, and delivery of the HR systems strategy, ensuring effective long-term planning and alignment with organisational goals.
* Identify and maximise opportunities to enhance HR system functionality and drive continuous improvement across the HR function.
* Lead and deliver HR systems projects, ensuring successful implementation and stakeholder engagement.
* Work collaboratively with colleagues to scope, design, build, test, and deploy system enhancements, delivering an exceptional HR systems service.
About You
* Proven experience managing and supporting HR systems, including system administration, upgrades, and integrations.
* Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead system implementations and enhancements from design through to delivery.
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate business and HR requirements into effective system solutions.
* Analytical and problem-solving capability, with a continuous improvement mindset and strong attention to data quality and system integrity.
* Relevant qualification or equivalent experience in HR, IT, systems management, or a related discipline
Benefits
The group offers a range of excellent benefits, including:
Annual leave:
Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
Pension schemes with generous employer contributions:
Teachers’ Pension Scheme
Local Government Pension Scheme
People’s Pension Scheme
CPD opportunities:
Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
Qualifications including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership and Management courses.
Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.
About Us Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training.We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions - Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress.As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow.Join us on the journey to being the best that we can collectively be for our students, apprentices, staff and our stakeholders.Luminate Education Group consists of; Harrogate College (HC), Keighley College (KC), Leeds City College (LCC), Leeds Conservatoire (LC), University Centre Leeds, Leeds Sixth Form College and Yorkshire Centre for Training & Development.SAFEGUARDING At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students including children, young people, and vulnerable adults. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow the Safer Recruitment requirements and best practice as set out within Keeping Children Safe in Education statutory guidance. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre-employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.EQUALITY, DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION We recognise, value and champion diversity & Inclusion. As we engage with a diverse student population we want to ensure we reflect that in our staff population too. For us diversity is about building happy teams, full of people that want to learn and be inspired by each other, by our different experiences and backgrounds. It is important to us that both staff and students achieve their full potential. Diversity is important to us, but inclusion is equally, if not more important. It’s not just about having the representation but also providing the people we recruit with opportunities and valuing everyone’s contributions and perspectives.RECRUITMENT AGENCIES We kindly request that recruitment agencies do not forward any unsolicited CVs in relation to any of our advertised roles or speculatively. If we require support with any of our vacancies we will get in touch with agencies directly.
* We do not recognise submissions of unsolicited or speculative CV applications from recruitment agencies.
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