People Advisor

1. The WRU Group is committed to developing a culture whereby all employees are equally valued and respected.
2. This role would suit someone who has previous experience working in a People Advisor position and CIPD Level 5 accreditation or equivalent work experience.
3. As a permanent member of the WRU Group, you will have access to our full range of employee benefits, including life assurance, hybrid working arrangements, free stadium parking and gym, and various discounts.

This role encompasses the full spectrum of people related activity. You will partner with line managers in allocated business areas to identify their needs, giving good quality advice across the full employee life cycle of events. You must be comfortable to roll up your sleeves and get involved in some admin as much as embracing new projects that may fall outside of your comfort zone.

Closing Date: Thursday 31st October 2024

First Stage Interviews will be held week commencing 11th November 2024

The Person

This role would suit someone who has previous experience working in a People Advisor position

• CIPD Level 5 accreditation or equivalent work experience
• Proficient using HRIS systems, generating reports and analysing data
• Generalist experience with at least a deeper knowledge in an areas such as reward, learning and development, culture change, recruitment or talent management
• Personal values that uphold confidentiality, integrity and ethics
• Able to build strong trusted relationships with line managers that allow for a support and challenge relationship
• Prefers working collaboratively as a team achieve team goals

Balancing a practical approach to problem solving, whilst maintaining compliance

The Role

• Build trusted relationships with your line managers in order to understand their business area needs
• Provide excellent advice and consistent support on the full spectrum of employee life cycle activities, everything that you would normally expect in an advisor role
• Willing to lead on all aspects of the employee lifecycle, not limited to; probation, annual pay review, performance reviews, wellbeing activities, policy or benefit reviews and updates
• Manage the end to end recruitment process, including preparing job descriptions, advertising and supporting managers with arranging interviews and participating in interviews where necessary. Preparing employment contracts and managing the onboarding process for new employees
• Support employees as they leave the organisation, managing the offboarding process, reviewing data and trends to feedback as appropriate
• Support the team in developing strong communication and feedback channels through a variety of mechanisms to support employee engagement
• Work with others in the team to collate accurate data for payroll to share with our Payroll Specialist each month.
• Be proficient using People Systems (we use Sage People, Culture Amp, iHasco and Team Tailor); to retrieve management information, analyse data trends, report on headcount movement, absence, leaver reasons, turnover etc
• Demonstrate a commitment and enthusiasm for inclusion in sport, passionate about raising awareness and seeking opportunities to improve
• Using knowledge from your business areas, identify training and development needs for employees and support the wider team in sourcing or developing programmes and workshops
• Keep up to date with employment law amendments and confident to continually review and update employment policies and contracts as required.
• Stay curious and up to date with changes in the people space externally, committed to your own continuous professional development
• Ad hoc administrative duties to include; raising purchase orders, supporting with annual audit, reference requests and DBS renewals
• Assist the Payroll Specialist with monthly payroll, ensuring providing timely information and accurate data
• Support with People Team Projects as required
• Undertake other reasonable tasks and duties with accordance with changing and emerging needs of the business

WRU Requirements

The WRU require that individuals are proficient in IT skills, specifically Microsoft packages. Excellent written and verbal communications are essential, along with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh and a Valid UK Driver's License is desirable. This role is subject to a basic/enhanced DBS check.

The Perks

As a permanent member of the WRU Group, you will have access to our full range of employee benefits, including:

• Salary Sacrifice Pension (5% employee contribution, matched by WRU)
• Life assurance scheme
• WRU Group Ticket Allocation
• Employee assistance programme
• Team Tactics – hybrid working arrangements
• Free stadium parking and gym
• WRU Group store and tour discounts
• WRU Group partnership offers
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme

Our Values

The WRU Group are committed to developing a culture whereby all employees are equally valued and respected. Our aims, together with our vision and mission, are underpinned by our core values and beliefs which embrace: Integrity, Excellence, Success, Courage, Family & Humour.

Inclusion At The WRU

The WRU Group are committed to providing a Jersey for All. This includes the people who work for and with us. We are ambitious about providing a people first culture where everyone can belong, be heard and respected. We are happy to talk to you about our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Plan (2023-2028) and you can also read more about our commitment in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.

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