Job Description

Job Introduction

Why work for BPP Education Group?

It is a great time to join BPP Education Group as we have enjoyed a sustained period of growth, offering a wealth of opportunities to our staff, students and clients. There are many more great reasons to join BPP Education Group such as:



Brilliantly, you can study any of BPP's courses for free - be it a professional qualification or full degree.


With hybrid working available, you'll be able to split your time between one of our centres and wherever you choose to call home.


We also provide a generous annual leave entitlement of 30 days, and there's a rewards package that includes retail discounts and much more.


Other key benefits include our Group Personal Pension Plan, dedicated private healthcare and dental plans that offer additional assurance to look after you and your family

What you'll be doing

This is a key generalist HR role strategically partnering with your designated business units, utilising your excellent communication, coaching and influencing skills to drive employee engagement, embed company culture, identify and develop talent, lead OD and ER, and develop people management capability. This role will include the line management of a HR Advisor.

Key Responsibilities

Business Engagement:

Understand your designated business units and proactively coach, influence and support the senior managers to achieve their vision and goals by providing expert people management advice and solutions. Build and develop a professional HR relationship with senior managers, to achieve continuous improvement and identify trends for action. Embed BPP's values and expected behaviours.

People Management competencies:

Coach and support our people managers in the adoption of best-in-class HR practices. Develop and deliver HR related training to improve the competencies and management expertise of BPP's people managers. Work proactively with the T&L team with identifying training needs, designing and delivering training sessions as required to improve line manager capability.

Employee Relations:

Line management of a HR Advisor, ensuring ER cases and issues across the various business units are being dealt with effectively. Work with the other HRBPs to ensure HR advice, policy and procedure is consistent and prioritised across the organisation. Deal effectively with any complex HR queries or cases. Support the BPP Legal team with Employment Tribunal preparation and submission

Change Management:

To proactively support operational restructures and change programmes following company policy and HR best practice. Highlight and mitigate any potential risks. Coach and support managers through change, for e.g. in delivering business rationale,

conducting formal meetings.

Ensure all key internal stakeholders (incl. payroll, HR operations and Reward) are engaged and updated on change developments. Ensure any HR issues are tracked and if appropriate, ensure HR operational processes are completed effectively

Project work and People Transformation:

In addition to the 'business as usual' agenda, you may be required to lead on or support projects to develop the HR agenda such as policy design, line manager toolkits. Within these tasks, you will be expected to:

Proactively plan your workload to ensure project timescales are achieved Actively update the Senior HR Business Partner and other stakeholders regarding progress and implementation plans.

HR Team Support:

As a senior professional within the HR team, you will provide coaching, guidance and support to the HR Advisor and other members of the HR team. Act as the business expert for your designated business areas. Collaborate and share intel with the relevant HR Teams on issues that may impact them (HR Systems, Reward, Payroll,Recruitment and Talent & Learning).

What we're looking for...

To be successful in this role you will need to have a proven track record in the following areas:

An HR qualification to degree or equivalent level CIPD qualified or equivalent Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, specifically Word, Excel and Outlook Experience of working with HR systems

Exceptional candidates who do not meet the exact qualification criteria may be considered for the role provided they have the necessary skills and experience

BPP Education Group are proud to be a Disability Confident employer so if you need any reasonable adjustments for the interview process, please just let us know!

BPP Education Group actively promotes equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential, and welcomes applications from a wide range of candidates. BPP will select candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience. Please note that for those posts that are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, the successful candidate will be required to undertake a DBS check in addition to BPP undertaking any necessary online searches. This is deemed appropriate and necessary from a safeguarding perspective, and in line with BPP's safer recruitment practices

BPP Education Group reserves the right to amend or withdraw this advertisement at any time prior to the closing date, should we receive a high volume of applications or if business needs change.