HR Advisor

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Salary: Up to £32,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

Contract type: 1 x 12 month Fixed Term Contract / Attachment

Location: Office Base is flexible with regular weekly travel to the Birmingham office. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Please note: this role is Welsh language essential.

Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

As a HR Advisor at the BBC you'll play a vital role in providing essential information, guidance and support on the full range of HR topics. The role supports colleagues and managers from across the UK and offers an excellent opportunity for growth, providing hands-on experience in a fast-paced environment that offers the scope exploring many different HR scenarios across the BBC.

WHY JOIN THE TEAM

Join our dynamic HR Help Desk team at the BBC, where we deliver top-notch advisory services to our diverse workforce. Be part of our forward-thinking People Services team, delivering exceptional query resolution and support to employees and managers. This role ensures smooth service delivery by adhering to established processes and meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT

• To deliver accurate and timely advice over the phone and via our HR case management system to managers and employee's in line with defined Service Level Agreements (SLA's)
• To problem solve queries and issues, offering resolution and/or escalating queries to the relevant team/ 3rd party within People Services or relevant Specialist Team
• To understand and gain insight into customer concerns and problems by questioning, exploring issues and reviewing data
• To provide answers with self-assurance based on data and understanding of policy and process
• To work, where required, to provide assistance to projects
• To contribute to a culture of service excellence and support continuous improvement

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Welsh speaker
• Experience of delivering advice and guidance to managers and employees on HR related queries
• Experience use of People systems/Case management systems for entering data into relevant systems and ensuring data quality (such as SAP)
• Knowledge of HR Policy and processes across a broad range of HR topics
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy; ensures facts are correct, complete and consistent
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal; Assured in dealing with the full range of business users, via multiple communication channels
• Self-assured in the use of data and data problem solving skills
• Understands how to handle, resolve and escalate enquiries; passes on information promptly
• Understands how to work effectively in a team to deliver
• A flexible, willing and pragmatic approach to providing assistance within the wider operational environment

Disclaimer

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.

Please note: If you were to be offered this role, the BBC will conduct Employment screening checks which include Reference checks; Eligibility to work checks; and if applicable to the role, Safeguarding and Adverse media/Social media checks. Any offer made is conditional on these checks being satisfactory.

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

Information at a Glance This is your BBC

At the BBC you can create and innovate in an inclusive environment while contributing to some of the world's best loved content, and the BBC's mission to inform, educate and entertain.

Find out more about the BBC Life at BBC

Here you will benefit from:

• Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pensionscheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.
• Excellent career and professional development.
• Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer.
• A values-based organisation where the way we do things is important as what we do.

Benefits may vary if you are joining on an FTC basis.

Learn more about life at the BBC and our values in our candidate pack.

Candidate pack You belong

We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, so all our employees feel that they can belong, thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to join us. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

Find out more about diversity, inclusion and belonging in our strategy below.

Diversity, inclusion & belonging strategy Disability confident

We are a disability confident employer. If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process, or to carry out this role, please contact us via email and we'd be happy to discuss:

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