HR Systems Manager

Leeds City College; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An educational organization in Leeds is seeking an HR Systems Manager. The successful candidate will manage HR systems, ensuring they are effective and user-friendly while leading various improvement projects. The role requires strong project management and stakeholder engagement skills, along with a relevant qualification in HR or IT. This opportunity offers hybrid working options and various benefits including generous annual leave and pension schemes.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Pension schemes with employer contributions

CPD opportunities

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Discounted travel

Flexible working opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing HR systems and integrations.
• Strong project management skills from design to delivery.
• Excellent communication able to translate HR needs into system solutions.

Responsibilities

• Oversee HR systems administration and management.
• Lead HR systems strategy and implementation projects.
• Enhance HR system functionalities through continuous improvement.

Skills

HR systems management

Project management

Stakeholder management

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Education

Relevant qualification in HR, IT, or systems management

Job description

About The Role

Luminate Education Group are looking for an HR Systems Manager who will play a key role in keeping our HR systems effective, user-friendly, and aligned with the needs of colleagues and leaders across all campuses. This is a key role, ensuring our systems are reliable and continually improving, supporting great colleague experiences through effective self‑service, high‑quality data and insightful reporting. The team is based at our Park Lane Campus, offering excellent transport links, with the train station just a 10–15 minute walk away and bus services stopping directly outside. Hybrid working is available for this role.

What You Will Do

• Take overall ownership of HR systems, including system administration, ongoing management, testing, upgrades and user support.
• Lead the design, development, and delivery of the HR systems strategy, ensuring effective long‑term planning and alignment with organisational goals.
• Identify and maximise opportunities to enhance HR system functionality and drive continuous improvement across the HR function.
• Lead and deliver HR systems projects, ensuring successful implementation and stakeholder engagement.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to scope, design, build, test, and deploy system enhancements, delivering an exceptional HR systems service.

About You

• Proven experience managing and supporting HR systems, including system administration, upgrades, and integrations.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to lead system implementations and enhancements from design through to delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, able to translate business and HR requirements into effective system solutions.
• Analytical and problem‑solving capability, with a continuous improvement mindset and strong attention to data quality and system integrity.
• Relevant qualification or equivalent experience in HR, IT, systems management, or a related discipline.

Benefits

• Annual Leave
  • Curriculum and Management: 44 days plus bank holidays
  • Curriculum support and business support: 39 days plus bank holidays
• Pension Schemes With Generous Employer Contributions
  • Teachers’ Pension Scheme
  • Local Government Pension Scheme
  • People’s Pension Scheme
• CPD Opportunities
  • Annual staff conference plus 2 additional staff development days.
• Qualifications Including PGCE, Apprenticeships, Leadership And Management Courses.
• Employee wellbeing initiatives: Family Friendly Policies, discounted onsite spa (Printworks) and gym (Park Lane).
• Travel and commuting: Discounted travel available through Metro card, Northern Rail, First Bus, Arriva Bus and Cycle to work schemes.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities: Please speak to the recruiting manager regarding flexible opportunities as these differ between roles.

About Us

Luminate Education Group is a collective of education providers based in Yorkshire with one clear purpose: to make a positive difference to people’s lives through genuinely transformative education and training. We offer a wide range of job vacancies across our business support functions – Finance, Human Resources, ITSS, Marketing, Communications, Executive Support, Estates and Food Services. Our large size and diverse range of member organisations means there are always exciting opportunities to progress. As an education provider, we are committed to lifelong learning and investing in our workforce, and you’ll have access to a broad variety of training and professional development designed to help you continually develop and grow. Luminate Education Group consists of: Harrogate College, Keighley College, Leeds City College, Leeds Sixth Form College, Pudsey Sixth Form College, Leeds Conservatoire and University Centre Leeds.

Safeguarding

At Luminate Education Group we are committed to the safeguarding and welfare of all our students. We expect all our staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All successful applicants will be required to complete mandatory pre‑employment checks which include an enhanced DBS check, online checks and must have two satisfactory references. Please be aware that it is a criminal offence to apply for this post if you are barred from engaging in regulated activity in connection to children.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in recruitment is key to our Group’s values. We are dedicated to fostering a workplace that embraces equality, diversity and inclusion in all its forms, where every candidate is treated with fairness, respect, and equity. Our recruitment processes are designed to ensure equal opportunities, remove bias, and promote a diverse talent pool. To find out more about what our commitment to EDI means to us please Click here to learn more about our EDI objectives.

Recruitment Agencies

We do not accept unsolicited CV’s and applications from agencies and will not be liable for any fee in connection with a candidate that has been submitted speculatively through any agency that has not been expressly instructed for a particular vacancy as part of our Preferred Supplier List.