HR Advisor – 6 Month FTC

Hunter Adams are working on behalf of a leading not for profit organisation in Edinburgh to recruit a Part Time HR Advisor for a 6 month fixed term contract.

This is a varied, hands-on role, offering professional HR support across all areas of the employee lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality administrative and advisory support within a busy HR team, ensuring an efficient, compliant, and people-focused service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responding to general HR requests and enquiries, providing high quality professional advice and support to staff across the charity on straight forward HR related matters, and ensuring enquiries are processed in a timely and appropriate way.
• Co-ordinate all administration and correspondence relating to the employee life-cycle, for example, new starters and probationary periods, promotions and other contract changes.
• Work with team members to provide initial policy/procedure/process advice/guidance to management and employees, through aspects of the employee life cycle to include absence management, recruitment, probation etc in accordance with the consistent application of policies and procedures and compliance with employment law and best practice.
• Work closely with the Payroll Department to ensure workforce information is kept up to date, and any problems identified and addressed. Issue accurate payroll instructions, to meet payroll deadlines; ensuring staff are paid correctly.
• Administer and maintain the HR Systems (employee database, appraisal, e-Learning) ensuring records are up to date and accurate, and act as point of contact with third-party suppliers regarding system updates and development.

Key Requirements:

• Educated to HNC/HND Level (or equivalent experience)
• CIPD Certificate in Human Resource Practice (or equivalent experience) or willingness to obtain
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with people at all levels; providing first-class customer service.
• Proficient in using variety of HR systems and databases, e.g. maintaining and producing reports.
• Good IT skills including understanding and working knowledge of Microsoft office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and HR systems.
• Experience in an IT department providing personal support to colleagues with a range of levels of ability.
• Experience in all aspects of HR administration within busy HR Office.

If you’re an experienced HR Advisor looking for a meaningful role in a purpose led organisation, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today using the link below or get in touch for a confidential chat to find out more.