Senior HR Business Partner - HR and Compliance

Aspirations Academies Trust are reshaping their people offer over the next two years and are looking for a high-level HR professional to join their team to ensure business transformation is, operationally efficient, data driven and leading systems and process to support strategic growth. You will be fully committed to the HR function partnering with our operational colleagues for systemic efficiency and excellence in service. 

The successful candidate will provide strategic HR leadership across the Trust, ensuring the people strategy aligns with the organisation’s long-term educational and operational objectives. This includes workforce planning, organisational design, leadership capability development, and ensuring the Trust has the people capacity required for sustainable growth.

You will Support and deputise for the Director of Human Resources and Compliance and working closely with key leaders across the whole of the Trust, including the Principals of 16 academies and central teams to support over 1250 employees, this role plays a key professional role in: 

• Driving the people agenda across schools, including wellbeing, staff engagement, and employee benefits.
• Developing training and coaching for leaders on ER matters. 
• Reviewing and enhancing, appraisal, job evaluation and pay strategies, gender pay gap and pay progression.
• Developing data analytics and AI to ensure leaders can be proactive not reactive.
• Developing and monitoring equality and diversity amongst the workforce.
• Lead the development of workforce planning strategies, including succession planning, leadership pipeline development and long-term staffing forecasts across the Trust’s academies, including the development of ATS and talent pool management.
• Working and engaging with Unions and establishing employee forums.
• Delivering excellent, up to date, advice and service on all matters relating to HR and specified areas of compliance and liaising with partners such as ACAS and legal teams when required. 
• Developing full system integration in both payroll services and record management to ensure user friendly workflows.
• Developing and implementing the Trust’s policies relating to HR and key areas of compliance and support the parental interfaces when matters involve staff.
• You will have a good understanding of organisational design, restructures, consultations and type arrangements.
• Developing streamlined HR systems and digital workflows to deliver efficient, high-quality people services.

Key Strategic Priorities for the Role are summarised as follows

• HR digital transformation
• Leadership development in ER knowledge
• Job evaluation
• Improved HR data analytic
• Employee engagement and Well-being
• Organisational design and structure

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