HR Assistant

NUS Charity; Stockport; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday entitlement

Pension scheme with employer matched

Employee Assistance Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health Cash Plan

Volunteer days

Job summary

NUS Charity is seeking an HR Assistant to support day-to-day HR operations, including recruitment, onboarding, payroll records and employee relations. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement with Stockport office access and flexible home working options.

You will handle HR administration across the employee lifecycle, using Natural HR/Moorepay, WorkRite and Hireful systems, while delivering reliable customer service to staff. A positive, proactive approach is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience of working within a generalist HR environment.
• Comfortable working with HR systems to manage HR and payroll records, Learning & Development activity and Recruitment & Selection.

Responsibilities

• Be the first point of contact for HR queries and provide administrative support to the HR team.
• Administer established HR systems for records and payroll, and support onboarding and employee relations tasks.
• Support day-to-day HR operations from Stockport or hybrid work arrangements combining Stockport and home.

Skills

HR administration

Generalist HR experience

Customer service

Tools

Natural HR/Moorepay

WorkRite

Hireful

Job description

DepartmentHuman Resources

Contract typePermanent

Hours35

Salary26,582

Benefits:

As well as a generous annual leave entitlement, we also have a range of policies focused on promoting work life balance. We offer other benefits including pension, EAP scheme and discounts.

Who we are

NUS Charity is an exciting membership organisation developing and championing strong students’ unions. We connect our members and curate services to deliver advice, guidance and crisis support to students’ unions. We do professional differently. We are a progressive charity representing students’ unions across the UK. The sector is inclusive, fun, dynamic and representative and we put students and students’ unions at the heart of everything we do. We are challenging but are committed to creating a supportive and flexible environment which pushes your personal development in your everyday activity.

What we do

Students’ unions can be transformational hubs for students, staff, and wider society. NUS Charity supports our members’ development to enhance their capacity and harness opportunities to maximise their positive impact. We do this in many ways, from managing a purchasing consortium to drive great value for our members, to our development activity, supporting the best potential in students’ unions - we strive to make a difference to our members.

If you are successful in your application you will deal with the full range of generalist HR work. We support the organisation’s people-related needs across the full employee life cycle: helping managers with recruitment, onboarding new starters, and general employee relations matters such as sickness absence. The team is responsible for maintaining an accurate and complete HR System to ensure that payroll is accurate.

What we need

As our HR Assistant, you will play a vital role in supporting the day-to-day operations of our team. You will be responsible for a wide range of HR administrative tasks, ensuring smooth and efficient HR processes, and providing excellent customer service to our employees. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about HR. You should have experience of working within a generalist HR environment and be comfortable working with HR systems to manage HR and Payroll records, Learning & Development activity and Recruitment & Selection work.

You will be the first point of contact for HR queries and provide general administrative support to the team. You will administer our established HR systems, such as Natural HR/Moorepay for HR records. You will be working with WorkRite (our mandatory training system) and Hireful (our Recruitment & Selection Applicant Tracking System and onboarding).

You can either do this role from our Stockport office or hybrid based partly in Stockport and partly at home.

Why apply?

As well as a great place to work, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Generous holiday entitlement (starting at 27 days per year rising with service to 30 days, pro rata for part time)
• Enhanced sick, maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay
• Health Cash Plan
• Pension scheme with employer matched contributions up to 6%
• Employee Assistance Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Childcare Allowance
• Paid volunteering days – three days per year for full time staff

We’re committed to equality of opportunity for all. We welcome applications from individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, or disability. You can be yourself here whoever you are, be proud of the work you do and build a career in a place that knows different is good.

We recognise that candidates from Black, Asian and Minoritised-Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds are under‑represented in our organisation, and that there are often additional barriers present for people from these groups when applying for roles in the charity sector and beyond. We are committed to taking positive action to expand the diversity of our staff team, and if you meet the essential criteria for a role and are from a BAME background, you'll be guaranteed a first stage interview. It is important to note that this scheme guarantees an interview for candidates who meet the minimum criteria and tell us that they'd like to be considered under the scheme. The selection decision at interview will be based on the most suitable candidate, regardless of any protected characteristic.

Closing date for applications: Sunday 1st November 2026 (23:59)

If you’re successfully shortlisted, we’ll see you at an interview in Stockport on Monday 9th November 2026.