Hr & Operations Officer - 6655

Elrha is a global organisation that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. We are seeking an HR & Operations Officer to join our small but mighty team. The role involves coordinating our employee lifecycle activities, providing a great HR service to staff and managers and proactively supporting initiatives focussed on improving employee experience.  

Duties include coordinating critical HR operational activities including recruitment campaigns and onboarding processes, updating management information and drafting correspondence, providing advice and guidance to staff and managers and also delivering project work focused on culture and engagement. As such you would need to be a confident communicator, a diligent problem solver and a highly organised administrator.  

• Do you have solid HR administration experience across the full range of HR operational activities?  
• Do you have excellent communications skills, with the ability to build relationships and provide compliant advice and guidance to staff and managers at all levels? 
• Do you have a keen interest in internal communications and engagement and understand the importance of providing a positive employee experience? 
• Are you resourceful, proactive and flexible with amazing attention to detail and terrific time management skills? 
• Are you seeking to develop your skills in a friendly, supportive environment focused on creating positive change in the humanitarian sector?  

Our HR&OS Officers work together to ensure a seamless service to our staff and managers and provide cover for each other in times of peak workloads and team absences. This means also undertaking additional responsibilities for operational support including organising travel and events and dealing with queries relating to facilities, finance, procurement, IT and wellbeing.  

If you want to be part of an organisation that creates positive change in the humanitarian sector, then join us and we'll give you every opportunity to succeed. We can offer a large degree of flexibility for you to shape the role, develop, learn and grow professionally. We are a committed, friendly and collaborative team, and the role is a great opportunity to develop your skills across a wide HR and operational remit.   

Note for applicants: 

• Candidates must have the independent right to work in UK at the time of appointment as we are unable to support visa sponsorship for this role. 
• When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children UK recruitment system. Elrha is an independent subsidiary of SCUK and benefits from some SCUK systems and processes. 
• Please read through the job description for a detailed list of requirements, and ensure you complete the personal statement to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you. 

Closing date: 10 March 2024 

About Elrha 

Elrha is a global charity that finds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. We fund and support projects that go on to shape the way in which people across the world are supported during a crisis. We're an established and respected part of the humanitarian community, working closely and meaningfully with our fellow networks and actors to make change happen.  

Read our strategy: shaping the future: our strategy for research and innovation in humanitarian response 2023 - 2040. It sets out how we'll work with our community to realise its potential in humanitarian response, and how we'll capture the real change and improvements to the lives of people affected by crisis. 

Our strategy sets out our values by which we hold ourselves accountable as individuals and as an organisation and employer. 

• Putting people at the centre  
• Working with others  
• Acting responsibly  
• Committed to learning  
• Inspiring change 

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion 

Elrha is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity in all aspects of our work both external and internal. We strive to be an inclusive employer and particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups such as returning parents or carers who are re-entering work after a career break, people who are LGBTQ+, from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning difference or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different nations and regions, and from less advantaged socioeconomic backgrounds. 

Flexible Working 

Elrha is a remote first organisation and aims to promote flexible working practices wherever possible. Other than the expectation to attend occasional team meetings in person at our office locations in Cardiff and London, employees can choose to work either in their designated office base or at their home within the UK.  

As standard we work 35 hours per week. We are also happy to discuss flexible working patterns and many of our staff work non-standard working hours. 

Salaries and benefits 

All our vacancies are advertised with salary bands clearly stated. New employees are usually appointed at the bottom of the advertised range. In some circumstances, relevant skills and experience may also be taken into account when determining the appointed salary.  

Elrha is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. Salaries are reviewed annually subject to eligibility. 

As well as our flexible working ethos, our staff benefit from all of the SCUK rewards and benefits listed on the careers page. These include minimum 5% employer pension contribution (3% employee contribution), life cover, organisational sick pay, family friendly pay and leave schemes; incremental increase in annual leave (25 day basic entitlement) depending on length of service, opportunities for learning and development, a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and retail discounts platform. 

Pre-employment Checks 

Any employment with Elrha will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date: 

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable) 
• receipt of satisfactory references 

• proof of eligibility to work in the UK 

Please ensure you read the full job description and complete the Personal Statement as requested in the application process. We look forward to hearing from you.