HR Administration Assistant

HR Administration Assistant

Edinburgh

£22,979 - £24,603 (FTE), local government pension scheme & other great benefits

Part time 15 hours per week, hours are flexible

Are you a talented Administration Assistant with exceptional organisational and administrative skills who could support our busy HR & OD team?

We’re different, modern and have a wonderful open culture. We employ around 300 experts to help ensure that £40bn of public money is spent wisely and who have the autonomy and freedom they desire to make a difference in their work. Check us out – we were awarded 2019 One to Watch status by the Sunday Times Best Companies Survey and listed within the 2019 Sunday Times 100 Best Not-For-Profit Organisations to work for.

Our Edinburgh office is within walking distance of both Haymarket and Waverley stations, has stunning views across to the castle and offers a wonderful environment in which to work so you can be your very best.

How you can help us

You will be an effective team player, supporting our team by providing strong administrative support using our HR systems and processes to provide a streamlined service.

As a true administrative support professional who takes enormous pride in supporting and assisting teams deliver on their objectives. You enjoy organising everything whether that is events, people, processes or workloads and have meticulous attention to detail.

You will

• deliver quality, flawless and efficient administrative support. You understand the importance of having streamlined administrative processes and procedures in place to support our employee lifecycle and our people development activity. You also understand administrative systems and processes are the foundation of a solid HR & OD infrastructure.
• work collaboratively with colleagues. You’ll be organised and make sure work is delivered on time and to the highest quality. You are focused, resilient and can adapt to the working style of others to secure the desired outcomes.
• easily follow set existing processes. You enjoy getting stuck into the finer details of things and don't need much directing, you like to take charge of your working day. You can also see how things can be improved and look for better and different ways to provide services.

Specific knowledge and experience...

• You have proven solid administration experience coupled with experience of working within a team, organising and prioritising your workload to meet our needs.
• Advanced use of Microsoft packages (Excel, Word and Outlook).
• You are the bringer of ideas and solutions with the ability to review processes and suggest new ways of working.
• Ideally, you may have worked in an HR & OD team previously and may have used HR information systems, however this is not essential.
• You’re emotionally intelligent and can work with people from different backgrounds.
• You may have worked in the public, private or ‘third’ sectors.

Interested? Next steps

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We’ve reserved Tuesday 11th or Thursday 13th February so we can meet and get to know each other better. If successful, we’ll then agree a package and share our journey together – helping to make work better for our people and, in turn, helping make Scotland a better place for the people that live here.