Hr Manager

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a friendly and high caliber boutique sports law firm in a stand alone capacity (with support from a HR Consultant where needed), helping hone the development and execution of our people and culture strategy.

This is a part-time role of 0.6 FTE / 22.5 hours pw which can be assigned across the week to suit your availability. Ideally you will be located within a reasonable commuting distance from our London office however a good level of remote working is possible with this role.
Role priorities include overseeing Internship, Paralegal and Trainee annual selection programmes; and managing the search, offer, visa and onboarding processes for all hires. You'll be the go-to friendly face to support employees through their employment journey. You will also have the opportunity to lead on HR projects and develop efficiencies in people operations including owning staff policy and process implementation; overseeing people development and performance management processes; and implementing initiatives to ensure we retain a unified culture and engaged workforce.

The Firm

Morgan Sports Law is a specialist sports arbitration and litigation firm representing our clients in a variety of sport resolution forums globally. We are one of the world’s pre-eminent law firm of choice for athletes, players, agents, teams and defendants in issues such as anti-doping disputes, anti-corruption and governance, reputation protection matters, sports and commercial disputes, and arbitration.

We are an international Practice with just under 25 team members based predominantly in the UK, with small offices in Switzerland and the US.

In addition, this role will also support our subsidiary E-sports gaming agency - DotX Talent, with 5 remote working employees currently.

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Requirements

1. Talent Acquisition & Recruitment:

• Execute the firm's talent acquisition strategy.
• Manage all vacancy postings and sourcing channels.
• Build talent pipelines, headhunt where necessary and ensure positive candidate experiences.
• Oversee end-to-end hiring campaigns, screen and preliminary interview candidates.
• Own and develop the small-scale internship and graduate programme - including building relationships with relevant partner institutions, representing the firm at law fairs and helping us to grow with impressive talent from the very best universities.
• Handle employment offers and contracting.
• Build the employer brand for Morgan Sports Law creating great content and supporting with a social media strategy.

2. Onboarding:

• Oversee detailed pre-employment checks.
• Support Visa application processes where necessary.
• Deliver new staff inductions.
• Own the probation management process and ensure a positive experience for all new recruits.

3. Training & Development:

• Manage a small-scale internship and trainee program, ensuring appropriate supervision, feedback and development is offered and our compliance with SRA regulations.
• Promote relevant professional development and mandatory legal training.
• Mange the performance review process (including 360 feedback gathering) and encourage and coach supervisors to deliver effective feedback have quality career discussions.

4. Policy & Compliance:

• Promote and review company policies, procedures, and contracts, ensuring alignment with employment law and legislation.
• Collaborate with the Practice Manager on employee experience and relations issues including grievances, complaints, disciplinary processes, and mediation (you'll be pleased to know the latter is infrequent in this high performing, engaged organisation!).
• Ensure the firm's compliance with workplace health & safety and employment legislation.

5. General HR Management:

• Administer and promote employee benefits including payroll (with assistance from Finance), pension, insurance, bonus structures, and paid time-offs. This is in relation to the UK and overseas office locations.
• Contribute to ad hoc HR projects as directed by the Practice Manager, such as performance management, HR data management, reward bench-marking, engagement, and internal communication.
• Take ownership of issues relating to employee experience and employee relations.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records.
• Administer and produce contracts, official documents, and other HR-related paperwork.
• Administer and maximise use of firm HR tools and software such as Hibob HR Platform, Workable ATS and Access eLearning training system.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• You will have at least 3 years’ extensive HR experience within professional services (preferably legal sector) to the extent that you are both confident and competent at running day-to-day HR operations independently autonomously with minimal supervision.
• CIPD part or fully qualified (or equivalent).
• Graduate and Apprentice/Internship recruitment campaign management experience.
• Experience of developing and delivering on-boarding and development activities.
• Experience of driving recruitment best practice and innovative techniques.
• Experience in HR process design including configuring and using HR systems automated workflows.
• Proven strong KPI delivery.
• Knowledge of UK employment law and contractual administration.

Desirable

• High standard of academic achievement, preferably to degree level or above.
• Experience of supporting visa application processes.
• Experience owning employee relations, performance management and employee engagement activities.
• Experience of managing overseas hiring campaigns and HR operations (particularly in the US and EMEA).
  

Personal Attributes

• Self-motivated, enthusiastic, with a “no job too big or too small” attitude.
• Someone who exceeds people’s expectations on a regular basis.
• Results driven, yet light-hearted and fun.
• Able to work well under pressure/ambiguity and to independently manage own mandates.
• Charismatic, professional communicator and confident in representing the firm in public forums.
• Able to think outside the box e.g. to attract talent into niche roles.
• Discreet and professional at all times.
• Great at stakeholder management.
• A stickler for detail.
• Passionate about working in the legal sector.

Benefits

We see this as a very exciting part-time role where you'll have the trust and autonomy to really add value and shape the function in the way you feel delivers best value. We offer a competitive salary of £33,000- £39,000 gross pa (FTE salary £55,000 - 65,000 gross pa), alongside core benefits such as 25 days holiday (pro-rata if not working across 5 days) and a pension plan, private medical insurance, business and leisure travel insurance, reward platform perks, friendly and professional collegiate environment, and are happy to be flexible on work patterns and hours.

Other Info

Travel between our London & Surrey offices will be a feature, particularly for selection interviewing and building relationships with team members, however there is scope for a high level of flexible remote working in this role.

The firm's human resources needs have been met by an external consultant for several years, and they will remain retained on a reduced basis to provide both thorough on-boarding support and ongoing mentorship, supervision and as a sounding board for any complex matters as needed.

The firm has very good staff retention, and an a positive employee relations climate with respectful and compassionate leadership. However, as is often common in professional service firms, it can be hard to find time with the senior leaders so you need to have good judgement, a pro-active attitude and enjoy working with a high level of independence and autonomy.