Head Of Human Resources & Support Services

Slavery is the fastest growing crime in the world.  There are thought to be 40 million people enslaved worldwide and, based on our own research using police data, more than 100,000 victims in the UK alone.  

Justice & Care is an anti-slavery organisation working internationally to address slavery and human trafficking, provide release and care for victims, dismantle criminal networks and bring perpetrators to justice. It works to protect communities at risk from traffickers and spark systemic change by working with policy makers and other key stakeholders. 

Our Purpose: Joining forces to end modern slavery.

Our Mission: By bringing together specialists, we work to prevent slavery, to release and care for victims, to uncover and dismantle criminal networks and to spark systemic change.

Our Values: As an organisation we have a set of core values that underpin and inform all we do:

• We are collaborative

• We are courageous

• We are experts

• We are relentless 

• We are pioneering

This role

We are recruiting for an experienced senior HR professional to take ownership of all UK HR functions within the organisation, building on the structures already in place to ensure we are a supportive and dynamic place to work.

Justice and Care is at an exciting moment with the imminent launch of a new ten-year strategy and this role will be at the forefront of helping the organisation thrive as we seek to increase our impact.

The Head of HR is a standalone role but will work closely with the Global leadership team and form part of the UK Leadership team. They will be responsible for managing the day-to-day HR operations, overseeing recruitment, employee relations, employee experience, learning and development, reward, talent management, people analytics, EDI and wellbeing. 

Your main responsibilities will include;

• Developing and delivering a forward-thinking People Strategy. 

• Leading on all people-related activities throughout the full employee life cycle including recruitment and onboarding, performance management, leavers, and related policies and systems. 

• Leading on the development, updating and day-to-day implementation of progressive HR policies and processes. 

• Leading on all employee relations matters ensuring are handled fairly and consistently in line with legal requirements and Justice and Care’s policies and procedures.

• Implementing and overseeing all learning and development and training programmes within the organisation.

• Managing the HR System ensuring it holds accurate information on all staff

• Ensure we have in place robust and competitive pay and reward frameworks, supporting high performance and career progression. 

• Work with the Director of Finance and the Finance team to ensure the accurate processing of payroll. 

• Line manage the Executive Assistant/Team Administrator.

Please visit our website to view the full job description and for details of how to apply.