WaterAid Looking for People Business Partner at London (Hybrid) Full Time

People Business Partner x 2
£42,871 – £51,417 (depending on experience) per annum
Full-time, Permanent
Hybrid Working, 2 days in the London office (Canary Wharf)
Excellent benefits including 28 days holiday and flexible working

Closing date: 14th August 2022 (Sunday) at 11:59pm (shortlisting and interviews will take place on a rolling basis and the application process will close if a suitable candidate is found prior to the advertised closing date)

Do you want to use your skills in HR to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere? Is your genuine passion for HR supported by recent experience in a similar role and a proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced HR environment? If your answer to both questions is yes, you could soon be playing a vital role at the heart of our organisation.

Join WaterAid as one of two People Business Partner roles and be part of a global change for millions of people. Help them to unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good. On top of that, you’ll be joining a 2020 Great Place to Work® award-winning organisation.

About the team:
The WaterAid Global People & Organisational Development team (The People Team) plays a critical role in helping WaterAid realise its goals. We lead on the development of strategies that ensure that WaterAid’s people are aligned and engaged with our aims and objectives, and that they have the skills and opportunities to maximise the impact they can make. We are excited to increase the size and scope of the Global People Team to ensure that we are resourced effectively to enable the organisation to shift to and realise our new global strategy.

About the role:
The People Team have an exciting opportunity for two motivated and experienced People Business Partners to work in a supportive culture that values collaboration, diversity and courage. Among your many challenges, you will be key in supporting the newly launched global strategy by supporting managers to bring the best out of their teams. Coaching and guiding managers to embed a culture of high-performance is crucial to enrich management capabilities, whilst providing the perfect balance of support and challenge. Drawing on your expertise, you’ll support on change management, including restructures, to ensure changes are sensitively implemented. You will support managers to get the best out of their people, collaborate closely with key stakeholders to solve recruitment and resourcing challenges, whilst drawing on your experience of successful workforce planning. You will provide pragmatic solutions to HR challenges by working collaboratively with managers and key stakeholders across The Global People Team.

You’ll be instrumental in how we take forward our new People Business Partnering team structure and will thrive in showcasing great people management best practice. With our new global strategy recently being launched and growth in the People Team, it’s an exciting time to join WaterAid.

About you:
As our People Business Partner, you will work across the Global People Team to provide a customer centric HR Business Partnering service across all areas of the employee lifecycle to managers and employees. You have emotional intelligence and can navigate ambiguity. You can work with autonomy, are comfortable working at pace and have a real sense of tenacity about delivering results. You have recent experience of supporting managers with recruitment and change management and have built credibility through providing pragmatic HR solutions. You’ll be an ambassador for our new global strategy and act as a key advocator for our transition to hybrid working. You are someone who can demonstrate a successful track record of advising and leading on a range of people & ER related matters, a confident influencer / coach who is able to build strong relationships in both singular and group settings. You’re experienced at facilitating and understand that principles of what good diversity and inclusion practices are.

To be successful, you’ll need:
* Experience of working in a busy HR team at a similar level, supporting in multiple activities and dealing with a wide variety of internal / external customers.
* Experience in providing an effective, flexible and pragmatic Business Partnering service.
* Resilience, pragmatic and resourceful solutions to existing and upcoming challenges.
* A good understanding and proactive solutions to sensitive employee relations issues.
* A practical understanding of UK employment law and how it affects HR practice and general awareness of HR best practice.
* Capable to work in a fast-paced matrix environment and keep calm under pressure and during periods of change.
* Ability to work collaboratively and build effective working relationships at all levels.
* A CIPD Associate or higher qualification, or equivalent experience.

Additional Information:

WaterAid is located at Canary Wharf, London and this will be your location and contract base. We are hybrid working, which means where you will be required to work from the office a minimum of 2 days per week. The remainder of the time will be working from home.

In order to apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the UK.

WaterAid is committed to ensuring that wherever we work in the world there is no tolerance for the abuse of power, privilege or trust. WaterAid reinforces a culture of zero tolerance towards any form of inappropriate behaviour, abuse, harassment, or exploitation of any kind. The safeguarding of our beneficiaries, staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf, is our top priority and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously. All staff and volunteers are required to share in this commitment through our Global Code of Conduct. We will conduct the most appropriate pre-employment references and checks to ensure high standards are maintained.

WaterAid is an equal opportunity and disability-confident employer committed to achieving the highest standards of diversity, fairness and equality. Should you have a disability and require any additional support, please contact us.