Human Resources Specialist in City of London

Job description

*Please only apply if you are uploading a CV and Cover Letter outlining how you are a fit for this post*

Send Cover Letter to Lauren Wright

Deadline to apply: 15th August 2025

Responsibilities:

General

• Support a positive employee experience across the full employee cycle with RISE

• Manage end-to-end recruitment and onboarding process, ensuring all areas are met and updated regularly e.g. DBS review cycle.

• Advise staff and managers on the employee benefits and entitlements

• Act as first point of contact for employee relation issues.

• Support managers with day-to-day HR processes, advising managers on HR policies and procedures and best practice.

• Responsible for HR administrative processes e.g. HR Portal, HR letters and functions.

• Maintain employee personal folders

• Advise on staff and Directors on pensions, salary reviews, redundancy and employment law.

• Liaise with payroll to ensure payroll information is relayed back accurately

• Support and participate in Performance Reviews and improvement measures

Strategy & Planning

• Provide guidance on employee engagement, well-being and inclusion initiatives.

• Promote and embed RISE’s Mutual culture and employee ownership principles.

• Ensure HR practices align with organisational values and comply with legal requirements.

• Contribute to the development of a performance-led, value-driven organisational culture.

Contract & Account Management

• Monitor staffing levels and workforce planning across all contracts and projects

• Identify resource gaps and provide recommendations to the senior leadership team.

Employee Relations & Compliance

• Oversee end-to end employee relation cases, including absence management, disciplinaries, and supporting with the related investigations and record keeping.

• Ensure accurate record keeping and timely resolution of cases.

• Prepare and deliver regular HR reports to leadership (e.g. Recruitment, retention, ER case summaries, training uptake)

• Provide regular reports to leadership on recruitment and retention, employee relation cases etc.

• Maintain compliance with employment legislation and internal policies.

Essentials:

Experience

• At least 3 years of professional experience in a Human Resources function; including significant involvement in employee relations.

• Degree in HR, Business Administration or a related field

• Strong Knowledge of Employment Law and HR best practices.

• Proficiency in HR information systems

• Experience in full cycle recruitment and working across multiple hiring levels

Skills and Behaviour

• Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills; able to build trust at all levels
• Strong decision-making skills and problem solving abilities
• Highly organised, with attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Naturally driven and self-motivated
• Self-motivated
• Solution focused, pro-active approach to problem solving
• Establish effective and productive relationships across the organisation.
• Demonstrate critical attention to detail and ability to cope with changing priorities.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Demonstrates a commitment to equality, equity, diversity and inclusion in all aspects of HR practice.

Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of HR processes across the employee lifecycle.
• Creative Ideas for developing RISE’s brand and ability to quickly learn product knowledge.

Benefits of working at RISE:

• Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024 company that celebrates diversity, culture and individual differences, and that will help you to grow and thrive in your career.
• Employee Council gives employees a way to channel their voice to improve their experience.
• Everyone can have their birthday off work, on top of their 27 day’s annual leave entitlement.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

City of London

Type of Contract

Part-time jobs

Published at

01-08-2025

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English