HR Administrator

News UK; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

News UK is seeking a People Operations expert for a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role focuses on employment screening, HR compliance, and enhancing the onboarding experience. You will ensure new hires receive their contracts and necessary support, all while providing advice on HR administration. Join a leading media company dedicated to inclusion and employee well-being.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme with employer contributions

25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days

Maternity and paternity leave

LinkedIn Learning access

Qualifications

• Strong customer focus and passion for service delivery.
• Ability to build effective relationships.
• Excellent administration skills and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Produce offer letters and contracts for new starters.
• Conduct employment screening and right to work checks.
• Manage daily activities of employment screening processes.

Skills

Customer focus

Collaboration

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Education

Awareness of UK employment legislation

Tools

HR systems (SAP)

Job description

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Please note this role is advertised on a 12 month FTC.

Your Role: You will offer expertise on employment screening, contracts of employment, mandatory training completion and right to work checks, which are essential to the successful onboarding of employees.

The Team: You will be part of our People Operations team, that deliver expertise on HR administration, compliance and HR data to our customers across the News UK business. We achieve this through specialist knowledge of our area and by taking ownership of the customer experience. We implement solutions which meet the business’s needs, protect the business from risk and deliver a great employee experience.

Day to day you will:

• Produce and issue offer letters, contracts of employment and starter packs for all new starters at News UK

Conduct employment screening checks/right to work checks

Provide proactive advice and guidance to our stakeholders on contractual terms during the offer and onboarding process

Ensure new starter details are accurately recorded in our HR Information System

Maintain all employment contract templates ensuring that any changes are accurately and consistently updated

Manage the day-to-day activities of the Company’s employment screening processes

Manage the day-to-day activities of the Company’s right to work processes

Foster professional and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders

Act as an expert advisor in the subject areas within your team’s remit and within People Operations

Maintain thorough and accurate records of any changes to employment contract templates

Provide advice and assistance to our employees

Provide input into continuous improvement of all HR processes and protocols ensuring that established processes are followed

What we’re looking for from you:

• A strong customer focus and passion for service delivery

A collaborative approach with ability to build effective relationships

Ability to question and challenge appropriately

Initiative to research issues and solve problems independently

Excellent administration skills and attention to detail

Previous experience with using HR systems (such as SAP) is desired, but not essential

An awareness of UK employment legislation relevant to the subject areas within your team’s remit, including right to work checks and employment contracts

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK we believe our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want the ways we work to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but do provide multiple flexible working options. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion ( , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks;Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.