People & Development Advisor

We are thrilled to have an opportunity to join our team of talented HR professionals and have a new HR Advisor vacancy. This role will be for 6 months, and support Newcastle College and Newcastle Sixth Form College primarily. You will have the opportunity to work alongside People & Development (P&D) colleagues across NCG to provide a high-quality service to all our internal and external stakeholders on all people related activity.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive, ambitious and experienced individual to join us. You will provide first-line HR support to our managers and colleagues on all people matters and will work closely with a designated HR Business Partner and HR Assistant.

To be successful in this role you will need to have experience of working in a similar role within a Human Resource team and ideally, be CIPD qualified or working towards this. We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to build strong working relationships, and impeccable attention to detail. Our P&D team is a busy and thriving department to work within, so the ability to work flexibly is essential for this role. We offer 30 days annual leave, a local government pension scheme including life cover, a hybrid approach to working and personal development.

NCG is committed to having a positive impact on all of the students that attend our Colleges and you will be pivotal to this by helping improve the colleague journey and candidate experience across our Colleges and Professional Services.

Sound interesting?

Please contact Laura Yates, Senior People and Development Business Partner ( ) or Lee Jennings People & Development Business Partner ( ) via email for an informal chat.

Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates.

NCG is a national college group, offering further and higher education across our seven colleges. Our mission is to ‘enable social mobility and economic prosperity through exceptional education’ and we exist to create life-changing opportunities for individuals that strengthen the prosperity of their local communities.

Through ambitious teaching, innovative courses and outstanding learning environments, we aim to inspire excellence, spark curiosity and make a real impact on our learners and communities, with a vision to become the UK’s leading college group, recognised for our local impact, national reach and influence.

Together, our colleges and partners are creating the workforce of the future by enabling all people, regardless of their background, to develop the skills that our local communities need to be successful and sustained.

We’re made up of seven colleges and a central professional services team which supports our entire college network. Whatever your role, you’ll be an important part of helping us to achieve our goals, realise our vision and most importantly, support learners across our colleges to succeed.

We are committed to creating inclusive communities of excellent learning and teaching which benefit from sharing best practice developed across the seven learning organisations which are NCG.

Our people are at the heart of NCG and by joining our organisation, you will be valued, empowered and will benefit from being part of a national network of colleagues who you will be able to work and collaborate with, learn from and share your knowledge.

NCG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff to share this commitment.

At NCG, our values are not just about what we do, but also about how we do things.

Our values underpin the culture and beliefs of our organisation, we expect all our staff to demonstrate behaviours in line with our core values.

• Being both inclusive and diverse
• Trusting and respecting our communities
• Taking ownership whilst working collaboratively
• Inspiring excellence and curiosity.
  
  

NCG offers an excellent benefits package, including generous holiday entitlement, access to the Teachers’ pension scheme (for teaching posts) or Local Government pension scheme (non-teaching posts), company sick pay, a cycle to work scheme and much more.

NCG seeks to promote and maintain an equal, diverse, inclusive and supportive environment for work and study that assists all members of our communities to reach their full potential. We are committed to achieving a truly representative workforce and therefore welcome applications from across the national and regional communities that we work with and serve.

To view Job Description, Person Specification and NCG Values Pack please click the document attachment at the bottom of this advert. No agency applications will be accepted.

NCG reserve the right to close the vacancy early.

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