HR Administrator

CITIZENS UK

HR Administrator

£29071

CITIZENS UK, Portsoken, Tower Hamlets

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted 4 days ago, 14 Sep | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 04c4c97575d04d949619db0f1ef78fce

Full Job Description

The HR Administrator role is an excellent opportunity for someone with HR or admin experience, who is interested in starting/progressing an HR career and looking to gain experience in a friendly but busy small HR team. The role provides a day-to-day HR admin service to employees and HR admin support to the part time HR team (two HR Business Partners and the Head of People & Development). The HR Administrator will be involved in using an HR and payroll system, ADP, and have an important role in the employee lifecycle processes e.g., DBS checks, recruitment, onboarding, compliance, payroll, appraisals, and have day-to-day responsibility for the HR and Recruitment Outlook mailboxes.

Main Responsibilities

Working in the HR team, reporting to a HR Business Partner, your main responsibilities will cover:

Contribute towards the achievement of CUK and its strategic objectives

  • Provide high standards of HR admin support to Citizens UK stakeholders.

  • Play an important role in introducing new and improving existing HR processes for a better HR service delivery and employee experience.

  • Be proactive in supporting the HR team in various streams of work to achieve the HR Business Plan.


  • Achieve work targets effectively
  • New Starter Onboarding Process: creating documents for HRBP approval (offer letters and contracts), ensuring all starter paperwork is returned, requesting and tracking the return of references, right to work checks, and setting up new starter compliance training.

  • Leavers: leading on leaver admin process, ensuring it is completed in timely manner.

  • Recruitment: becoming an expert user of Applied, our applicant tracking system. Advertising jobs (on Applied and external jobsites), arranging interviews and supporting colleagues with recruitment queries.

  • Invoicing and Credit Card Reconciliation: processing invoices on Finance system, Kissflow and the monthly credit card reconciliation for HR transactions.

  • Payroll - accurately updating and maintaining ADP, the HR & Payroll database. Uploading documents, running reports. Supporting HRBPs with payroll queries.

  • Regularly updating and auditing other HR data to ensure information is up to date (e.g., pensions data, new starter training, wellbeing data).

  • Employment checks: maintaining the DBS list and processing DBS checks for existing and new staff.

  • SharePoint: maintaining HR Self Service folder, ensuring documents are up to date.

  • Appraisals: ensuring appraisal forms are logged and uploaded to ADP.

  • Probation: Managing the probation period process

  • Minute taking at HR/relevant meetings and sharing with colleagues.

  • Supporting the team with ad hoc tasks as required and undertaking any task that may be requested from time to time that may be consistent with the nature and scope of this post.


  • Learning and expertise
  • Using admin skills and knowledge effectively and be committed to HR related continuous professional development.

  • Providing Citizens UK stakeholders with advice on HR admin process.

  • Taking proactive steps and be keen to learn processes and develop HR related knowledge.


  • Develop and manage relationships across the organisation and externally
  • Arrange HR Inductions with HRBPs and new joiners.

  • Manage HR calendar, ensuring meetings are arranged with HRBPs and Head of People & Development, as requested.

  • Organising quarterly Citizen UK Group Induction.

  • Preparing contracts/offer/variation/probation letters for team to approve.

  • Ensuring HQ team is informed of joiners/leavers e.g., Facilities, Finance.


  • Communications
  • Day to day responsibility for the HR and Recruitment Outlook inboxes, responding to routine queries and forwarding queries to HR colleagues.

  • First point of contact for recruitment queries from candidates, forwarding them to the appropriate HR colleague or hiring panel as necessary.


  • Knowledge Management
  • Understanding, handling, and managing data GDPR compliantly and keeping up to date with new legislation.


  • Generate income and resources
  • Taking responsibility for the careful use and stewardship of Citizens UK's resources.

  • Using admin systems to track income/ resources accurately e.g., HR credit card cost tracker.


  • Safeguarding, Health & Safety
  • Reporting on potential risks as they emerge to the appropriate colleagues in line with existing procedure.

  • Organising and tracking employees' compliance training.

  • Proactive in maintaining own wellbeing at work.


  • Please note the above duties are not exhaustive and the successful candidate will be required to perform addition tasks as reasonably requested., Please note we're not responsible for the content of job ads, as they're posted by the recruiter. We'll aim to resolve the reported issue and we'll use your feedback to improve the quality of our ads.

  • CIPD Level 3 Qualification (D), Previous admin or office-based experience (E)

  • Previous HR Experience (D)

  • Experience of using HR systems (D)


  • KEY SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
  • Intermediate level IT skills including MS Office and Excel (E)

  • Attention to detail (E)

  • Able to work well as part of a team, and maintain effective communication with colleagues (E)

  • Ability to deal with others in a professional manner (E)

  • Good written and verbal communication skills (E)

  • Good organisational and time management skills (E)

  • Knowledge of GDPR and Data Protection principles (D)


  • PERSONAL QUALITIES & VALUES
  • Commitment to the values of Citizens UK (E)

  • A self-starter with ability to take initiative and work independently (E)

  • Keen to build career in HR (D)

  • Strong team worker (E)

  • Reliable and able to use discretion and maintain confidentiality on sensitive matters (E)

  • Self-motivated, accountable, and adaptable (E)

    Citizens UK is a people power alliance of diverse local communities working together for the common good.


  • Our mission is to develop leaders, strengthen civic organisations and make change. Our 550 member communities are deeply rooted in their local areas and connect every day to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Through the method of community organising, we enable people experiencing powerlessness to develop their leadership and come together with the power and strategy to make change.

    This leads to hundreds of neighbourhood improvements - from zebra crossings outside primary schools to renovated public toilets in cemeteries. And it leads to some of the biggest campaign impacts in the UK, such as winning over £2 billion of wages through the UK Living Wage campaign, securing a legal cap on the cost of credit to control exploitative lending, and ending the detention of children for immigration purposes. We enable local campaigns to grow into large-scale social change projects such as the Living Wage Foundation, Parent Action, and Sponsor Refugees, that form an integral part of our theory of change. The most prominent of these is the rapidly growing Living Wage Foundation with a network of over 14,000 accredited Living Wage Employers across the UK.

    £29,071 per annum + £3,276 per annum London Weighting Pro Rata
    Full-time or part-time (Full Time, 37.5 hours per week (open to flexible working/4 days a week))
    Permanent