HR Officer - Remote/Part-time

General Information

• Job Title: HR Officer
• Location: Remote, with occasional travel to Bury St Edmunds
• Base Pay: £28,000 to £30,000 pro-rated
• Employee Type: Part-time / Perm

WHO ARE WE?

Go Ape is the UKs number 1 adventure company with 33 locations nationwide and more than 8 different activities. We’ve been providing adventures since 2002 and have welcomed over 10 million customers, but we’re not done yet and have big ambitions for the future.

Go Ape is now Employee Owned that means every Go Ape employee whether full time, part time or a seasonal worker are co-owners of the business. As a co-owner you will be empowered to voice your opinions and ideas through an elected Employee Council and have a real say in helping to shape the business.

In other exciting news - we’re working towards Bcorp accreditation and carbon neutrality – reviewing all of our energy consumption with the aim of reducing and off-setting our carbon footprint.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and we get excited when we hear from candidates with real diversity of background and lived experience.

The Opportunity

We’re a busy team of 2 seeking a 3rd person to join us for what will be an exciting year ahead! We’re a generalist team supporting the business across the full remit of HR – focusing in particular on recruitment, attraction and retention, learning & development, reward and recognition, and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion & Accessibility.

The role will suit a self-motivated HR professional who thrives in a fast paced, non-bureaucratic and non-hierarchical environment. Someone who enjoys supporting managers and being coached and mentored themselves. We want to hear from people that have an opinion and want to be heard. Someone who loves sharing ideas, wants to make an impact and strives to be 2 Steps Better.

In exchange we can provide a challenging and rewarding environment that is different to most businesses out there. Being Employee-Owned, we are different and you have a voice and the ability influence the business. Most of all, it’s your opportunity to join a bunch of people that are truly passionate about the power of adventure for all, and that work together for this purpose. It’s also fun, a lot of fun.

Scope of role

Recruitment Support - it’s the full generalist remit working across all elements of HR but with particular input and attention on recruitment support and ensuring our recruitment and retention practises at site are attracting the best quality and quantity of applicants.

The recruitment support entails, business partnering with managers to truly understand their individual requirements and assisting them to devise the best strategy for their site - supporting them with the process and ensuring they can be as effective as possible. Recruitment is decentralised and managed locally with HR support, that is, you will not be involved in the day-to-day conducting and admin of interviews.

Some of the areas of recruitment you will be responsible for are –

• Creating job requisitions on our HR platform and advertising the roles with are external partners.
• Maintaining a database of additional recruitment sources such as colleges and universities.
• Enhancing our relationships with external partners such as Indeed through regular catch ups with our Account Managers.
• Being innovative and creative when it comes to recruitment strategy and partnering with other internal departments such as Marketing to bring this to life.

Business partnering – between you and the Senior People Exec, you will support around 90 managers and will be on-hand daily to offer advice and guidance with regards people management and well-being.

This includes, but is not limited to –

• Performance management
• Absence management
• Disciplinaries and grievances

You will also get involved in projects supporting both the Senior People Exec and Head of People across EDI and training, reward and recognition. You will support the Senior People Exec as required with Learning and Development.

As this is lean team you will assist with general admin as required.

Skills, experience and attitude

Solid HR experience, Experience advising managers on employee relations queries

Highly motivated, self-starter with energy and a positive outlook

Great communication skills – both written and spoken

Ability to effectively multi-task and manage a varied workload

Understanding of recruitment – desirable but not essential

CIPD or equivalent qualification - desirable but not essential

Job Types: Part-time, Permanent

Salary: £28,000.00-£30,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee discount
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing
• Sick pay
• Store discount
• Wellness programme
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Performance bonus

Work Location: Remote

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