Associate HR Business Partner

UCL AI Centre; London; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

UCL is hiring an Associate HR Business Partner to enhance HR initiatives within the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences. This hybrid role offers the chance to work closely with line managers, delivering high-quality HR support and contributing to impactful people-focused strategies in a diverse and collaborative environment.

Benefits

41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave, 8 bank holidays, 6 closure days)

Defined benefit pension scheme

On-site gym

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Ability to advise on complex HR issues such as disciplinaries and grievances.
• Experience in delivering HR administrative support.
• Proven track record in managing change processes.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to HR Business Partners and local HR teams.
• Deliver first-line employee relations guidance.
• Co-ordinate job evaluations and support senior recruitment processes.

Skills

Organisational Skills

HR Advice

Workshops Delivery

Data Analysis

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Ref Number C14-00158 Professional Expertise HR and Wellbeing Department Human Resources Division (C14) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £43,374 £51,860 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment No Closing Date 17-Jun-2025

About Us

UCL is London’s Global University and a world-leading centre of academic excellence. Our Human Resources division plays a vital role in supporting UCL’s diverse community by fostering a collaborative and inclusive working environment. With a team of around 140 dedicated professionals, UCL HR partners with academic faculties and professional services to deliver impactful, people-focused strategies. Our values of respect, inclusion and innovation underpin everything we do, and we are committed to removing barriers and actively promoting equity across our workforce.

It is an exciting time to be joining the UCL HR Business Partnering team. We have recently gone through a review to further enhance our business partnering offering to our Faculties and Professional Services divisions. In doing this we have embedded a new entry-level role of Associate HR Business Partner into each of our HRBP teams. This role also introduces a new and clear career pathway within HR business partnering and signals the start of a fulfilling and rewarding career for members of our team.

About The Role

We are hiring an Associate HR Business Partner to provide support across the Faculties of Life and Medical Sciences. This role provides support to the HR Business Partners with the implementation of people-focused initiatives and activities within the client group. The postholder will work closely with local HR-focused staff within the Faculties and with other Business Partners from across the wider HR Business Partnering team. The role will be varied and impactful.

The responsibilities of the role include the provision of high-quality support and advice to line managers, including first-line employee relations guidance and input into HR and Diversity initiatives. The role also involves supporting the management of organisational change processes and coordinating and undertaking job evaluations and gradings.

In addition, the postholder will be involved in designing and jointly delivering individual or group workshops on HR procedures and policies. They will be responsible for collating HR metrics data for the Faculties and will support senior recruitment processes as required.

The successful candidate will support the four HRBPs and Senior HRBP by partnering with junior and middle managers, as well as local HR colleagues, within the following group of world and sector-leading faculties: Brain Sciences, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Population Health Sciences.

Your application must include a CV and a supporting statement, and it will be assessed on how well you evidence the essential and desirable criteria in the job description. Please see the job description and person specification for more information.

We are a very friendly and supportive team and look forward to receiving your application. For further information or an informal chat, please contact Kay Toms ([e-mail]), Senior HR Business Partner for the Life and Medical Sciences Faculties.

About You

The successful HR professional will have the ability to work effectively in a Human Resources environment within a complex organisation. You will have a proven track record of providing high-quality advice to managers on a range of HR policies, procedures, and best practices.

You will demonstrate outstanding organisational skills and experience in delivering high-quality HR administrative support. We are looking for a candidate who has advised and handled a range of first-line complex HR issues—such as disciplinaries, grievances, change management, and TUPE.

Experience in designing and jointly delivering individual or group training workshops on HR-related topics is essential. We are seeking a high-calibre individual who can quickly build and develop effective and trusted working relationships with managers and staff.

You should also be able to compile HR data metrics and provide analysis support where necessary.

We are currently operating hybrid working within the HR Division, and you will have the opportunity to work remotely for up to three days a week if you wish. You must be available to work on-site on Mondays and one additional day each week.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance
  
  

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London’s Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world’s talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL’s workforce.

These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.

You can read more about our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion here : https://www.ucl.ac.uk/equality-diversity-inclusion/

Available documents

Attached documents are available under links. Clicking a document link will initialize its download.

• download: Associate HR BP Grade 7 17.01.25 (7).docx