Job Description

Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (Hybrid)


JOB INFO


Job Identification
547
Job Category
Professional
Posting Date
05/14/2025, 02:47 AM
Apply Before
05/27/2025, 05:59 PM
Job Schedule
Full time
Locations
Human Resources
(Hybrid)

The full-time starting salary is normally 51,580.00 per annum, with progression available in post to 56,067.00 per annum. This role also carries a 10% market supplement.

Grade: MA3

Permanent, full-time role.

We're offering an exciting, newly created opportunity for an experienced and people-centred professional to join our supportive, friendly, and high-performing HR Business Partnering Team. As Employee Relations Manager, you'll play a key strategic role in partnering with academic and professional services leaders across the University, delivering expert guidance and oversight on all aspects of employee relations case management.



Reporting to the Head of HR Business Partnering, you'll drive consistency, clarity, and continuous improvement in our ER practices. You'll develop and implement clear guidance, templates, and process maps that support timely, fair, and effective case resolution.



This role also carries line management responsibility for a team of HR Business Partners and HR Advisors--providing leadership, coaching, and support to enable high-quality service delivery across the University.



We're looking for someone who:


Brings substantial senior-level experience in managing complex employee relations casework. Has exceptional people leadership and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence, support, and constructively challenge senior stakeholders. Leads by empowering and enabling others--fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and collaboration. Takes a proactive, solution-focused approach to a wide range of ER issues, helping managers and staff navigate challenges while achieving their goals. Is adept at identifying and mitigating risks in complex, sensitive situations while offering creative, practical solutions. Thinks strategically and creatively, always seeing potential for improvement and innovation. Communicates with openness, clarity, and courage--offering both high support and high challenge in equal measure.

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 Annwyn Williams, Head of HR Business Partnering at annwyn.williams@bcu.ac.uk.



Interviews for this role will take place on the 11th of June 2025.



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.

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.