Salary:

£ 34000 to £38000 (plus London weighting of £3,323 if applicable)Working hours:

full-time - 35 hours per weekContract:

fixed-term until end of August 2025Location:

home-based or office-based (Vauxhall, London)Responsible to:

Chief Operating OfficerApplication closing date:

31/03/2025 10:00 amInterviews:

starting Thursday 20 March (online)

This role will support Kinship to operate as an effective and growing charity by ensuring effective day-to-day operations and seamless delivery of the people operations at the charity.This role is a pivotal role and will hold responsibility for ensuring that all people activity is delivered in a timely and effective manner.You will ensure that all policies, procedures, and processes relating to the people function are up to date and legally compliant. This will include all employee lifecycle activity such as onboarding/offboarding, employee relations (including performance management), engagement and wellbeing, EDI, and learning and development.Key responsibilities:

People activity

You will be:working with the Chief Operating Officer (COO), the management team and Kinship’s external HR consultants (The HR Dept) to design, develop and embed a high-quality people function to support the employee life cycleensuring all people matters are handled consistently in line with legal requirements and Kinship’s policies and procedures, taking responsibility for the update and launch of the handbook and people policiesensuring statutory requests (maternity, paternity, parental leave, carers leave and flexible working) are processed in line with legal requirementssupporting, coaching and providing clear guidance to line managers on people matterscontributing to change management activities, disciplinary, capability and grievance procedures (including responsibility for occupational health referrals) with support and guidance from the COOworking with line managers to embed EDI principles across the charitySystems and reporting

You will be:managing our HR Database (MyHR Toolkit) in conjunction with HR Dept, applicant tracking system, IHASCO, HR-Platform (DBS) and other platformsmanaging other systems and third-party providers such as the employee assistance programme to process employee data in line with data protection best practice and GDPR, iHasco for workstation assessments and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) compliance training, DBS background checking platform and Penelope platform as it relates to system access and initial IT equipment for new joinersproducing regular high-quality reports for the management team, Board and COO – for example, absence and staff turnover reports from MyHR ToolkitRecruitment and onboarding

You will be:ensuring clear job descriptions, person specifications, recruitment packs and job adverts are legally compliantsupporting and coaching line managers on the recruitment and interview process including use of the applicant tracking system (ATS) platformresponsible for candidate background checks, including DBS, references and qualification checksresponsible for the coordination and database management of volunteer kinship carers for interview panels on request. Ensuring vouchers are issued when requiredInduction

You will be:contributing to the development of the charity’s induction frameworkensuring new joiners have an excellent onboarding and induction experiencecoordinating corporate services team induction for new joinerscoordinating quarterly corporate induction, making changes as requiredEmployee relations and offboarding

You will be:ensuring offboarding processes are robust and implemented consistently to safeguard the charity’s assets and to comply with data protection rulesissuing appropriate leaver communication on receipt of confirmation of leaverconducting exit interviews with leavers, creating meaningful analytics and insights to inform retention strategiesproviding support and guidance to line managers on employee relations matters utilising HR Dept as requiredOther

You will be:responsible for all template letters ensuring they are compliant and reflect Kinship’s tone of voicecontributing to monthly staff newslettercoding people invoices before sending to COO for authorisationsupporting the successful organisation and delivery of the staff away day and other staff meetingsA full list of the job requirements is available in the job pack towards the bottom of this page.Experience requirements:

The successful candidate will have:HR certification or significant demonstrable experience of supporting the development of a high-quality people function within a growing organisationan ability to work in a changing and flexible organisationdemonstrable problem-solving and conflict resolution abilitiesknowledge of best practices, employment laws, and regulationseffective written communication skills with proven ability to write accurately, clearly, and persuasively for different audiencesstrong interpersonal skills – a genuine team player able to relate to a wide range of peoplea high level of accuracy and exceptional attention to detail – including strong numerical skillsan ability to work on their own initiative and manage their own workloaddemonstrable experience of EDI principlesthe ability to maintain confidentiality and work with discretion as requiredDesired skills:

Desirable, but not essential, criteria include:personal experience of kinship careexperience of working in a charity environmentexperience of working in a dynamic and fast-changing workplaceexceptional business-partnering skillsApplications have now closed

Applications for this role have now closed. Thank you to everyone who applied. If you have been selected for interview, you should hear from us soon.See what other opportunities we currently have to join the team at Kinship.Find out some of the benefits you get when you start a career with Kinship.Sign up for emails to keep up to date with the information that’s important to you, from support and advice for kinship carers, to our latest news, events and campaigns.

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