HR Officer Apprentice

Church of England; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 12,000 - 20,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading religious institution is looking for an HR Officer Apprentice to contribute to the HR Operations team, providing essential support throughout the employee lifecycle. This fixed-term role, lasting 18 months, requires you to have excellent communication skills and experience with Microsoft tools. The position allows for hybrid working, requiring attendance at their London office once a week. Candidates must meet apprenticeship entry requirements including GCSEs in Maths and English. This is a great opportunity to start a career in HR.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Enthusiastic and highly organized approach to work.
• Experience using Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, and HR Information Systems.

Responsibilities

• Assist in various HR operations including employee lifecycle support.
• Work closely with senior leaders and staff to provide HR advice.
• Participate in cultural, values, and wellbeing initiatives.

Skills

Verbal communication

Written communication

Attention to detail

Organizational skills

Experience with Microsoft Word

Experience with Microsoft Outlook

Experience with Microsoft Excel

HR Information Systems

Experience with SharePoint

Education

GCSE standard with grade 4/C or above in Maths and English

Tools

Oracle HCM

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

Start your HR career by joining our team at the National Church Institutions as an HR Officer Apprentice. The Human Resources department provides a strategic and operational HR service to the seven National Church Institutions (NCIs) and the 42 Diocesan Bishops' offices. Our HR Operations team focuses on the entire employee lifecycle providing support, advice and guidance to senior leaders, line managers and staff. The Organisational Development team lead on culture, values, wellbeing, development and our belonging & inclusion strategy. Through our External Service team, we also offer HR support on a consultancy basis to other Church of England organisations including our dioceses and cathedrals. We are a friendly, diverse, well respected, and highly engaged HR team who are committed to actively sharing knowledge and learning across the team and beyond. We encourage flexible working within the team, with hybrid working meaning we work from the office 1 day per week on average. We also regularly meet together online and in-person for collaboration, knowledge‑sharing and building relationships within the team.

• You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to work with accuracy and attention to detail, including working with numerical data.
• You will have an enthusiastic, flexible, and highly organised approach to work, with the ability to understand and process high volumes of information.
• You will need experience of using Microsoft Word, Outlook and Excel in a work-based context, as well as HR Information Systems (ideally Oracle HCM). SharePoint experience would also be an advantage.
• This role will require the postholder to work from our London office in Westminster London once a week on average (currently Wednesdays).
• This is a fixed‑term contract for 18 months.

To meet the apprenticeship entry requirements, you will need to have:

• Academic ability to meet the entry requirements of the Level 3 apprentice course attached to this apprenticeship and to attend and undertake the studying and coursework required to complete the course.
• Educated to at least GCSE standard, with GCSE grade 4/C or above in Maths and English (or equivalent) or ability to work towards level 2 Maths and English/GCSE 4/C grade.