Job Description

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (Hybrid)


JOB INFO


Job Identification
990
Job Category
Administration and Operations
Posting Date
10/02/2025, 10:27 AM
Apply Before
10/19/2025, 05:59 PM
Job Schedule
Full time
Locations
Human Resources
(Hybrid)

The full-time starting salary is normally 38,050.00 per annum, with progression available in post to 44,131.00 per annum.

Grade: F

Permanent, full-time role.

We're looking for two ER Advisers to join our Employee Relations team and support us to provide a proactive service to managers and staff in a diverse, fast-paced university setting. As a key member of our team, you'll provide professional, first-line HR advice and support, on a range of cases including sickness absence, disciplinary and grievance matters. You will work closely with managers to enable confident, data driven decision-making and help drive a culture of high performance, and continuous improvement.



You'll be an HR professional with hands-on experience of advising managers on HR policies. You will be educated to degree or equivalent and be an Associate Member of the CIPD (Assoc. CIPD). You will have experience providing HR advice across a diverse workforce and have experience analysing data such as absence reports. You will have knowledge of and experience in HR databases and systems, including strong IT proficiency (Excel, MS Office, HRIS), and experience of advising on HR policies and should be prepared to deliver training interventions.



You will join a collaborative and supportive working environment where you will help shape how we support our people. We offer a generous pension and annual leave provision (40 days including statutory holidays), family-friendly policies and state-of-the-art campus facilities. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on-site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties.



Informal queries in relation to this opportunity are very welcome, and should be directed to Annabel Roberts, Employee Relations Manager at annabel.roberts@bcu.ac.uk.



The selection process will include an interview and a work-related exercise element, and full details will be provided to shortlisted candidates in advance.

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.

Birmingham City University is deeply committed to equality, diversity, and inclusivity at all levels in the organisation, and to addressing underrepresentation in our workforce to ensure we are truly representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from applicants from all backgrounds and communities for this role, and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic applicants.

The University is proudly Disability Confident. This means amongst other things that we commit to offering a guaranteed interview to disabled applicants who fully meet the essential criteria for each role.

ABOUT US


At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.

Located in the centre of the UK's second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.



Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.