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🟢 Actively Hiring · Posted 24d ago ⏳ Closes in 67 days UK Corridor 🛡️ UK Work Eligibility 🏢 Non-profit Organisation

People Administrator

🏢 GLL • 📍 London, England • 🕒 Sep 14, 2026
Salary Range
£23,569 - £23,569
£1,964 - £1,964 / mo

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London, England
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Position Overview & Specifications

GLL is looking for a People Administrator to join the team based at head office in Woolwich, South East London. The team’s main purpose is to be the support function for a national business with 270 facilities including leisure centres, pools, spas, libraries and children’s centres across the UK, encompassing 12,000 employees on a mix of casual and permanent contracts.
The team use an online employee self-service portal which processes pay, recruitment and expense claims. We are constantly learning, reviewing and updating the ways of working with this system to make the HR Recruit service more efficient within this within an ever-growing business.
Responsible to the People Business Partner for the provision of all administration tasks required within the people team, including recruitment, employee relations, workforce planning and people related projects.
What you need:

  • Attention to detail/organisational skills
  • Excellent IT and administration skills
  • Ability to manage own workload and achieve deadlines
  • GCSE level qualifications
  • Excellent literacy and Numeracy skills
  • Previous HR experience would be preferred but not essential
  • As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

What you’ll do:

  • Is aware of and interested in targets and business performance
  • Contributes to the internal HR processes ensuring their effectiveness and accuracy Essential Requirements
  • Attention to detail/organisational skills
  • Excellent IT and administration skills
  • Ability to manage own workload and achieve deadlines
  • A confidential and professional approach as well as the ability to display integrity
  • Actively shows an interest in developing a career in HR
  • Carries out administrative recruitment processes for new members of staff, enabling a ‘safe’ and legal on boarding process
  • Carries out administrative tasks as requested to support the People team
  • Works with the workforce team on workforce statistics, providing and analysing workforce data and producing business focussed reports
  • Managing the IMS process and the uploading of policies, procedures and other relevant documentation- ensuring tracker is kept up to date
  • Assisting with the preparation of Employment Tribunals monitoring deadlines, assisting with tribunal bundles and all administrative tasks associated with this
  • Monitors relevant mailboxes, answering queries and escalating complex queries
  • Supporting with employee relations cases
  • Supporting with any change management projects and adhoc project work.

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:

  • A Values driven organisation
  • Learning & development to support career development
  • Good Pension schemes
  • Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
  • A full time permanent position – Change accordingly
  • Industry leading rates of pay
  • opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
  • Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
  • Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
  • Health assurance
  • Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
  • Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
  • 25% off Red Letter Days
  • 25% off Buy A Gift
  • 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
  • Ride to work scheme
  • Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.
To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you.
So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.
Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.
As a charitable social enterprise, we are different. Our purpose is to improve the physical, mental and social well being of local communities. We are looking for people with purpose who are aligned to our values:

  • BETTER SERVICE: Better choice for all
  • BETTER COMMUNITIES: Making a difference
  • BETTER BUSINESS: Business that benefits the community
  • BETTER PEOPLE: More than a job

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £23,569.16 per year

Candidate Selection & Onboarding Process

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Application & Resume Screening

Submit your tailored CV/Resume directly to the talent acquisition portal.

2

Technical & Competency Interviews

Virtual interviews with the hiring manager and multidisciplinary team.

3

Formal Offer & Benefits Negotiation

Written agreement outlining compensation, equity, retirement vesting, and relocation allowances.

4

Onboarding & Corporate Integration

Equipment provisioning, team orientation, and commencement of duties.

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Employment in the United Kingdom requires legal Right to Work verified under the Home Office Points-Based Immigration System:

🇬🇧 Skilled Worker Visa (Tier 2)

Sponsoring employers must hold an active Home Office A-rated Sponsor License and assign a valid Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS). Role must meet the general minimum salary threshold (£38,700) or occupation going rate.

🏛️ Settlement (ILR) Pathway

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⚖️ Official regulatory reference: UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) & Home Office Sponsor Register.

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Recruitment Insights

Based on transatlantic hiring benchmarks for People Administrator roles across GLL's corporate sector, successful applicants typically excel across three core dimensions:

1. Domain Competency

Demonstrated portfolio evidence, architecture/system design case studies, or validated professional certifications directly applicable to Civic, Welfare & Social Services.

2. Behavioral & Leadership

STAR method competency responses highlighting cross-functional leadership, conflict resolution, and delivering measurable enterprise ROI under tight timelines.

3. Compensation Alignment

Total compensation expectation aligned within the benchmarked £23,569 - £23,569 bracket, including retirement vesting and health parity.

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