HR Manager The Social Change Hive

The Social Change Nest; London; Hybrid; GBP 38,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to transforming the funding landscape for social change. This part-time role offers a unique opportunity to support diverse organizations by managing HR processes and ensuring compliance with UK employment law. You'll thrive in a hybrid or remote environment, collaborating with a close-knit team to drive positive social impact. With a focus on flexibility and innovation, you'll play a crucial role in helping grassroots groups access funding while enjoying benefits like pension contributions and employee perks. If you're passionate about social change and eager to make a difference, this role is for you.

Benefits

Pension

Employee Benefits

Flexible Working Arrangements

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Financial Wellbeing Platform

Retail Discounts

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an HR Manager or similar role.
• Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR compliance.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment and induction processes for the business and clients.
• Develop processes in Hive to ensure smooth operations.
• Prepare reports on HR metrics, including turnover and employee engagement.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Project Management

Problem-Solving Skills

Attention to Detail

Stakeholder Management

Understanding of UK Employment Law

HR Compliance

Education

CIPD Qualification Level 3

Tools

HR Platforms

BrightHR

Job description

£37,400 (£19,946.67 pro rata)

Part-time | Hybrid or Remote

Deadline 27 April 2025

Details

Salary: £37,400 (£19,946.67 pro rata) + pension + employee benefits

Hours: 25 hours per week

Location: Remote/Hybrid (London)

Application deadline: 23.59 pm, 27th Apr

About SCN

At The Social Change Nest (SCN), we’re radically transforming the funding landscape and strengthening civil society. We remove the financial and administrative barriers – like bank accounts and legal structures – that often prevent communities, grassroots groups and informal movements from accessing funding and focusing on their core mission. We also work closely with funders, providing Grant Distribution and Fund Management services, enabling them to support social action with confidence and transparency.

The Social Change Hive is a new service providing an ethical payroll management service for activists and changemakers, keeping them at the heart of what we do.

We know that groups often reach a point where they need to hire paid staff to help achieve their purpose. It is important that when the work someone is doing for that group becomes a regular commitment, they have a means to be able to pay them. Through The Social Change Hive (SCH), we can offer joint employment for those staff so that they can get all the benefits of being employed whilst helping groups to drive positive social change.

To put it simply, The Social Change Hive allows groups to hire staff without becoming a registered charity or incorporated group. They can find who they want to hire for their team, and we’ll take care of the rest.

The Social Change Nest is part of The Social Change Group. We are a Disability Confident Employer, and an accredited Living Wage Employer. In addition, we were listed as one of the top social enterprises in the UK in the SE100 for the last three years.

How we work

You’ll be joining a close-knit team, supported and developed to be the best you can be. We believe that every member of our team brings a unique perspective from their experiences and abilities and we encourage everyone to be a curious soul about how we can improve everything we do, from how we interact as a team to how we deliver for our clients and communities.

Underpinned by our values of collaboration, curiosity, courage, and creativity, we work closely and with care with our partners because we believe relationships are the glue that hold us all together.

We’re a growing business and operate at pace to keep up with the challenges that the sector faces. We have established a lot, but as we grow, we’re still working some things out. The right person will thrive in this environment and feel a level of ownership to support the build out of things we need as we need them.

The ideal person will enjoy working towards building something new and exciting for our clients, and be able to thrive when things change quickly which you need to adapt to. You’ll be the type of person that will intuitively look at the entire system and how your role and function fit into it, always looking to collaborate and make sure there’s great communication across each part of the business.

Skills and experience

Qualifications, experience and knowledge

1. Proven experience as an HR Manager or similar role
2. Strong understanding of UK employment law and HR compliance
3. Experience with employment services is a strong advantage
4. CIPD qualification level 3 is essential
5. Experience of working within a team, with excellent communication skills
6. Experience of managing HR platforms is desirable

Skills and Personal Attributes

1. Exceptional organisational skills
2. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
3. Ability to work with diverse social organisations, activists and changemakers
4. Enjoys working in a fast paced environment
5. Demonstrable experience of project management
6. Exceptional attention to detail
7. Strong and creative problem-solving skills
8. Process-oriented
9. Strong interpersonal skills and experience with stakeholder management
10. Confident with numbers and finances

Key responsibilities

Human Resources, Compliance and Administration (60%)

1. Support the Head of Operations on recruitment and induction processes for the business and clients. This includes ensuring the processes are fit for purpose and efficient for the business, having the right resources in place to support the team and clients with understanding and managing recruitment and induction, managing onboarding and offboarding processes.
2. Supporting the contracting and HR obligations for our employees, including clients using the Hive service – onboarding, exit processes and everything in between.
3. Developing and supporting the processes in Hive to ensure smooth operations.
4. Supporting the team and clients on HR queries and issues, including BrightHR administration, leave allocation and changes in contracts.
5. Work closely with the Operations Assistant on any other HR matters.
6. Support employee benefits and pensions, and liaise with providers to resolve issues, providing support on salary sacrifice schemes.

Development and learning (30%)

1. Ensure all staff and new starters complete all mandatory training in a timely manner.
2. Monitor, assess and report to the Head of Operations on training needs across the employees.
3. Prepare reports on HR metrics, including turnover, employee engagement, and compliance.

Benefits and payroll (10%)

1. Support with payroll providers and SCN Finance to ensure accurate and timely salary payments.
2. Support with pension and salary sacrifice queries with our Finance team and external payroll provider as and when necessary.

Terms and benefits

Terms:

We are open to exploring flexible working arrangements and supporting you to meet commitments you may have.

Salary: £37,400 (£19,946.67 pro rata)

Location: We hold quarterly all-staff strategy meetings and annual away days which you will be required to attend in person which we will cover the cost of your travel. You will be required to come together with the team occasionally and these travel costs will not be covered, we try our best to keep these to when only necessary.

Language skills & visa status:

Holiday:

Employer pension contribution:

Additional Paid Time Off:

Mintago:

Financial Wellbeing:

1. Salary sacrifice/exchange schemes for groceries (and pensions will be coming soon!). Staff members can choose a set amount to be taken out of their gross pay (before being taxed) each month, to be put towards purchasing groceries from all major grocery retailers.
2. Financial wellbeing platform allows staff to check their pension dashboard, plan for retirement and search for forgotten/lost pensions. There is also a smart saver plan and we provide access to financial advisers for free.
3. Benefits app – retail discounts. Select from over 80 brands.

How to apply

Deadline: 23.59 pm, 27th April 2025

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Hiring process

We strongly encourage applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds. We are committed to our staff representing the wide variety of backgrounds represented in the communities we work with. If you are concerned that you may not fit 100% of the job specification – please throw your hat in the ring. We never put formal education requirements on any role as we value lived experiences as highly as formal education and training qualifications.

We follow a blind recruitment process, which means that hiring managers for the role can only see your work history and answers to application questions when deciding to progress to the interview stage.

If you need any accessibility accommodations for this application please do not hesitate to contact us at or by calling [phone] and we will be happy to provide you with those accommodations.

Please visit our main vacancies page for our equal opportunities statement.