People and Culture (HR) Assistant

The Wildlife Trusts; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading nature charity in the UK is seeking a People and Culture Assistant to provide administrative support within their People and Culture and Learning and Development teams. The ideal candidate will be highly organized, efficient, and proactive in a fast-paced environment. Key responsibilities include recruitment, onboarding, and file management. This temporary position offers a salary between £15,001 and £30,000 per year, with a strong commitment to inclusivity and diversity.

Qualifications

• Excellent administrator with experience in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to manage last-minute requests.
• Commitment to confidentiality and discretion.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive administrative support to People and Culture.
• Assist in training, recruitment, and onboarding processes.
• Support different areas of admin as required.

Skills

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Multitasking

Proactive attitude

Discretion

Job description

Full time : 35 hours per week

Contract : 12 month temporary contract

Closing date for applications : 7 December 2025

First interview : 15 December 2025

Second interview : 18 December 2025

About Us

The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from a wide range of backgrounds and all walks of life who believe that we need nature and nature needs us. We have more than 944000 members, 38000 volunteers, 3600 staff and 600 trustees. There are 46 individual Wildlife Trusts each of which is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity formed by groups of people getting together and working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations starting where they live and work.

Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity in its own right founded in 1912 and one of the founding members of IUCN, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. Taken together this federation of 47 charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.

The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale if we are to prevent climate and ecological disaster. We recognise that this will require big bold changes in the way The Wildlife Trusts work not least in how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.

About You

If you are an excellent administrator looking for a role that will support the People and Culture and Learning and Development team in an exciting period of change at one of the UK’s best-loved nature charities then we have an exciting opportunity for you.

You are someone with sound experience working as a People and Culture Assistant in a complex and fast-moving environment. Proactively setting things in motion is something that you feel comfortable doing. This is a great opportunity for a highly organised and efficient administrator to join our small central People and Culture and Learning and Development teams. You will play a key role in providing comprehensive administrative support across these functions. This will include training and development recruitment and selection, induction onboarding and file management.

You will thrive in a dynamic fast-paced environment demonstrating the ability to manage last minute requests while maintaining exceptional attention to detail and the ability to multitask. A professional and composed demeanour is a must.

You will always uphold strict confidentiality and discretion, demonstrate a proactive attitude and remain flexible by supporting other areas of admin where required.

Inclusion and Safeguarding

The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.

RSWT take our safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.

As a Disability Confident employer we offer an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. If you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible, please let us know. RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.

Please be aware we may not accept applications if we have reason to believe they have been wholly produced using generative AI tools.

Employment Details

Employment Type: temporary

Experience: 0 years

Vacancy: 1

Salary: £15,001 – £30,000 per year