Human Resources Assistant

Department: Human Resources and Payroll Department

Hours of Work: Full Time (35 hours per week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £22,000 per annum

Location: Villa Park

Closing Date: Sunday 28 April 2024

1.    The Department

At Aston Villa Football Club, we recognise that our staff are at the heart of everything we do, and we are committed to making our Club a truly great place to work. 

Our Human Resources and Payroll Department plays a key role in delivering our ‘people’ strategy. We are focused on ensuring the Club has the right skills and resources in place to deliver an elite, high performance culture that drives our success both on and off the pitch. We provide support to over 1,000 staff Club-wide, and deliver a diverse range of activities across resourcing, employee relations, reward and benefits, employee engagement, talent, and people analytics.

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a Human Resources Assistant to join our dynamic Human Resources and Payroll Department.

2.    The Role

This is an ideal role for someone looking to start their career in HR and gain administration experience. You will predominantly work on our recruitment and onboarding process, providing recruitment administration support including advising managers on recruitment campaigns, supporting with drafting job adverts/role profiles, posting jobs on job boards, and setting up interview arrangements. You will play a vital part in managing our onboarding process by drafting offer documentation, conducting pre-employment checks and being the first point of contact for our New Starters to ensure they are welcomed into the Club in the best possible way.

You will also provide first level HR support to our employees across the Club in areas such as annual leave, references and employee benefit queries. You will also support our employee lifecycle process by drafting documentation such as employment contracts, contract amendments, and processing maternity and paternity requests.

There will also be the opportunity to get involved and play an active role in supporting key HR projects and initiatives, for example, the co-ordination of the monthly HR and Payroll newsletter sharing key departmental updates across the Club.

The role is based at full time onsite at Villa Park and you will need to be flexible to support occasional HR activities during evenings and weekends.

For further information about the Role, please see the Role Profile.

3.    The Person

You will need to be educated to GCSE level (including Maths and English Grade C / Grade 4 or above) or equivalent. You will also need to have administration experience and be proficient in using Microsoft Office applications.

We are looking for a proactive, clear communicator with an aptitude for attention to detail, and someone who has a passion to learn about the HR function within the world of football. Student membership of the CIPD and some previous experience of working within an HR administration role along with handling sensitive, confidential personal information and data would be desirable but not essential.

This will be a varied, fast-paced role so you will need to be organised and have an ability to juggle differing workload priorities whilst delivering exceptional customer service and solving problems.

Ideally, you will also need to have access to a vehicle and / or the ability to travel between our Club sites; Villa Park, London Office and Bodymoor Heath Training Ground.

As part of your application, please ensure you upload your CV and Cover Letter.

For further information, the Role Profile and to apply please go to https://careers.avfc.co.uk/job/human-resources-assistant

Right to Close Vacancy Posting Early

The Club reserves the right to close any advertised vacancies earlier than the advertised closing date if sufficient applications have been received.

Equality Statement

Aston Villa Football Club celebrates the diversity of its Club and embrace equal opportunities for all. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and fully support The FAs Football Leadership Diversity Code. 

We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of age, race, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, sex and religion or belief.

Safeguarding Statement  

Aston Villa Football Club is fully committed to safeguarding children and adults at risk across our Club. As such, we adhere to Safer Recruitment processes and for some roles a satisfactory enhanced disclosure via the Disclosure & Barring Service may be required prior to starting in a role at the Club. For more information, please seeAston Villa Football Club | The official club website | AVFC - Safeguarding