HR Manager

About the Role

As the site-based HR Manager, you will have a great opportunity to play a significant part in the college and make a difference in the lives of staff and learners every day. Reporting to the Principal, as part of the college management team, you will lead the HR function and provide a high quality, business-focused, flexible, and operational HR service across the College. It will be your job to support and develop all college leaders in their people management activities, including recruitment, onboarding, employee engagement, and employee relations. You will be expected to provide the necessary management information to enable effective tracking and monitoring so that managers and leaders can make informed decisions. 

About you

You will be a qualified HR practitioner, with a good operational background, and you’ll be keen to apply your knowledge and skills to make a great difference to the lives of the staff and learners at the college. 

You will be highly organised, and a good problem solver, and you will be competent in dealing with all the aspects of human resources management. A confident communicator, you will also have good organisation skills with the ability to coordinate and plan your workload and that of others in the team. You will demonstrate that you understand and respect the importance of confidentiality and data protection and you will have excellent report writing skills, appropriate to meet the needs of a wide range of stakeholders. You will be able to work accurately, with good attention to detail whilst meeting deadlines as required.

We are also recruiting for an HR Advisor post. If you would like to apply for this role instead, please visit our website.

About the College

We welcome over 8000 learners to the college each year.  Our learners reflect our community, coming from all abilities, backgrounds, ages. Our curriculum is equally diverse - we offer over 2000 courses of excellent quality across multiple disciplines. 

We are dedicated to closing the achievement gaps between the most advantaged and disadvantaged adults in our community.  We are proud of our specialist courses which help adults get into university within a year; plus our women-only offering which helps women get back into learning and employment. 

Our college extends over two beautiful campuses in Richmond and Surbiton, with dedicated art and business schools, a 120-seat theatre, offices, classrooms, workshops, and kitchens.  As well as a newly created co-working space.  We are ambitious for the future of the college.  Plans are in place to design and build a new purpose-built teaching centre at our Surbiton campus by 2022.   

Our Benefits

• Competitive salaries 
• Excellent contributory pension schemes
• A commitment to your ongoing learning and professional development.  Including:
• Fully funded professional development if required for your role (subject to applications)
• 1 free course per year from our wide-ranging curriculum
• A further 50% discount on any further RHACC courses
• Annual Leave which increases with service
• All staff are able to request flexible working arrangements
• Progressive family-friendly policies 
• An onsite crèche where you can enjoy staff discounts
• Desirable locations with very good connections into and out of London
• Other benefits that we offer:
• Discounted Private Healthcare 
• Eye Care Vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme

^{Please note, all posts at the College are subject to the Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service, with child barred list check. Should the post be involved in regulated activity with vulnerable adults an adult barred list check will also be requested.} 

^{Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.}