Hr Assistant

Are you looking for a new challenge and want to join a successful and rapidly growing organisation? Do you have a passion for enabling people to perform at their best? If so, we want to hear from you.

About the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT)

Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) is a social purpose company. It exists to improve people’s lives and communities. It works in partnership with national, regional and local governments, businesses, foundations and charities, to tackle major policy problems, often through testing and implementing simple yet powerful changes. 

What does an HR Assistant at BIT do?

The HR Assistant will support our small and friendly HR Team to deliver day to day operational excellence, and support our strategic vision. This role supports two HR Business Partners, a Recruitment Business Partner and an HR Director, covering a wide range of HR duties. Reporting to one of the HR Business Partners, this role offers great generalist HR and recruitment exposure and would suit individuals who are looking to pursue and develop a career in HR. Ongoing professional development will be supported.

Your work will include but will not be limited to:

• Acting as the first point of contact for employees on basic HR queries, including the management of the central HR inbox, escalating to the Business Partners where necessary;
• Assisting on all activities in our recruitment campaigns; supporting the Recruitment Business Partner with booking interviews, gathering and sending materials to recruiting managers, liaising with applicants and ensuring a great candidate experience by being a friendly voice, answering all queries;
• Maintaining and updating our HR systems and information including (but not limited to); inputting new starters and leavers, updating staff details, updating our org charts, running cyclical reports and making sure that our multiple platforms are consistent and up to date;
• Responsible for administrative duties relating to the end to end employee lifecycle (including coordinating onboarding for new starters, and conducting new starter inductions and exit interviews); 
• Drafting letters such as pay changes, promotions, references and offers of employment;
• Assisting the HR Business Partners with administrative payroll duties;
• Supporting team wide projects and helping us gather Management Information (MI) for meetings, such as attrition rates and up-to-date employee numbers.

What makes a great HR Assistant at BIT?

We are looking for an individual who understands what we do, who shares our values and are keen to learn and develop their expertise, knowledge and skills. We are looking for candidates with the skills and experience listed below.

• You have a passion for HR and a keen interest in developing as an HR professional;
• Previous demonstrable experience of working in an office environment (experience of working in HR is desirable but not essential);
• Clear and convincing communications with strong interpersonal skills;
• Good time management, organisation skills and attention to detail. You are able to produce high quality and accurate work;
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and maintain confidentiality;
• High self-awareness and self-reflection. You are aware of the impact that your actions and words have on those around you. 
• You are interested in evidence based people practices;

Who are we and what can we offer you?

The Behavioural Insights Team is the world leader in applying behavioural science to public policy challenges in order to strengthen communities and improve lives. 

We design and rigorously test new ideas across a range of areas such as health, crime and education, to establish what works and what doesn’t. We have helped Tuberculosis patients take their medicine; reduced police susceptibility to cyberattacks; and helped organisations close their gender pay gap.

BIT really is a great place to work:

• We encourage flexible working and have a culture which enables this; for example flexible start and finish times and an IT set up which allows for easy working from home options
• We have a generous pension scheme with 7% employer contribution
• We offer enhanced parental leave payments
• We have regular team lunches with inspirational guest speakers.
• We have a flexible benefits programme which currently includes things like gym memberships, pension top up, cycle to work schemes, Medical and Dental Cash Plans and the ability to buy extra annual leave at the start of the year.
• We’re a social bunch and have a variety of interest groups including Film Club, BIT Kids for our parents & 5-a-side team to name a few.
• We have a great office, which has an amazing coffee machine and fridges stocked full of soft drinks, plus monthly socials

How to apply

We use a great platform called Applied to to manage our recruitment process. You will need to answer a few work-based questions which will be anonymously marked by members of our team. Our selection is based on performance in these questions, as well as reviewing your CV to understand your experience.

Candidates with the top scoring answers will be invited to a structured interview where you get to meet some of the team. At the interview stage you will be asked questions that reflect the role and also to complete a work-based task, so you have the chance to demonstrate your skills.

Key Dates

• Role closes: Monday 11th March 2024 at 11:59pm GMT
• Interviews and assessments: from 13th March 2024 onwards
• Second round interviews (if necessary): from 20th March 2024 onwards

All dates are subject to change but we’ll try our best not to change them.

Please note:

You will need to have the right to work in the UK in order to be able to undertake this role. We will ask all applicants short-listed for an interview to provide evidence of their right to work during the recruitment process. If you do not have the right to work for BIT unfortunately we will not be able to provide sponsorship.

Some of the personal data you provide to Applied when you apply for a role with The Behavioural Insights Team will be passed on to The Behavioural Insights Team for the purposes of (a) reviewing your application; (b) inviting you for interview; and/or (c) offering you a job and getting you set up as an employee/contractor. For full details on how BIT collects and uses your personal data please visit our website - https://www.bi.team/bit-global-recruitment-privacy-notice/ 

If your application is not successful, any personal data provided to us by Applied (including any personal data relating to equal opportunities monitoring as set out above) will be retained by The Behavioural Insights Team for no longer than 6 months after the application deadline has passed (other than in exceptional circumstances where we may need to retain your personal data for longer), at which point your personal data will be securely deleted. We only keep your information for that period in order to allow us to comply with relevant legal obligations.