Human Resources Officer

• Confidently advise line managers and staff members, using appropriate methods of communication tailored to the audience answering straightforward questions or researching employment law, interpreting procedures to answer more complex questions, or redirecting as appropriate

• Maintain a regular HR presence at the department to provide face-to-face support to its employees

• Provide administrative support for the HR team, including note taking at formal casework meetings

• Contribute to project work independently or collectively, as required

• Provide administrative support for PDRs, the Reward and Recognition exercise, family-friendly policies and departmental car and travel insurance applications

• Implement University HR policies and procedures, providing data by running ad hoc reports from appropriate HR databases (e.g. CoreHR and Teamseer)

• Manage the administration of recruitment exercises which will include; working with managers to understand their staffing requirements, designing effective job advertisements and job descriptions ensuring that they comply with University guidance and best practice, making sure that adequate funding is available, submitting new post for grading, placing advertisements, gathering information for visa applications where necessary, generating letters to applicants, and preparing short listing packs

Please be aware that all candidates need to be able to start work immediately and must be able to work on site if required to do so.

The Temporary Staffing Service supports University of Oxford departments and affiliated colleges with the recruitment of temporary admin and clerical staff. Personal information provided to the University of Oxford is held in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR and related UK data protection legislation.