HR External Services and Apprenticeships Co-ordinator

The HR Department is a friendly, diverse, well-respected, and highly engaged team who are committed to actively sharing knowledge and learning across the team and beyond. We encourage flexible November 2024 working within the team and meeting online weekly and in person once a month for collaboration, knowledge-sharing and building relationships within the team. What you'll be doing The purpose of this role is to support the work of the External Services Team and to coordinate the Church's apprenticeship schemes. 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. Core Responsibilities

• Organising and arranging meetings, and travel arrangements, supporting with editing of documents, updating website pages etc.
• Providing logistical and administrative support to the HR Network.
• Project administration including sending out invitation emails to participants, sourcing and ordering materials, booking venues, arranging logistics, and liaising with clients.
• Conducting HR-related research to support projects e.g. industry trends and best practices, other CofE resources, cross-diocese sharing Providing admin support/notetaking for casework.
• Network relationships: Build and maintain relationships with existing apprenticeship providers, as well as sourcing new providers.
• Gather information from across the NCIs on existing work on apprenticeships and act as a central point of contact.
• Compile and maintain a list of preferred apprenticeship suppliers., 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.
  
  The Church of England is for everyone and we want to reflect the diversity of the community the Church serves across the whole country. Therefore, while of course we welcome all applications from interested and suitably experienced people, we would particularly welcome applicants from UK Minoritised Ethnicities (UKME)/Global Majority Heritage (GMH) and other under-represented groups. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to recruiting disabled people. We offer interviews to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the role.
What we offer Your Salary
• A salary of £35,026.20 (£38,918 FTE) plus age-related pension contributions between 8-15% of salary. We will also match any pension contributions you make up to an additional 3% of your salary.
Your Benefits
• 25 days annual leave (increasing to 30 days within 5 years) plus eight bank holidays and three additional days (pro-rated if working part-time).
• We welcome all flexible working arrangement requests. This is looked at in a case-by-case scenario and if this fits within the department's needs. We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance.
• We offer many services and initiatives under our Family Friendly Programme, some of these include enhanced Maternity Leave initiative, Adoption leave, Paternity Leave, & Shared Parental Leave. Structured induction programme and access to a range of development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Automatic enrolment and access to Medicash (one of the UK's leading health cash plan providers), providing you with many services including reimbursements of routine dental treatment, optical, specialist consultations, and therapy treatments. Unlimited access to virtual GP & Private prescription service and health & Stress related helplines.
• Access to Occupational Health, and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to the Department of Education Restaurant and Westminster Abby with a plus-one guest.
• Apply for eligibility for an Eyecare voucher.
• Opportunity to the Civil Service Sports & Social Club, and get involved in a range of staff networks, groups and societies.
We try to be as flexible as we can in your work pattern to support you with other commitments, and to give a good work-life balance. ABOUT NATIONAL CHURCH INSTITUTIONS The National Church Institutions comprises a wide variety of teams, professions and functions that support the mission and ministries of the Church of England in its vision to be a church, centred on Jesus Christ, for the whole nation - a church that is simpler, humbler, bolder. We Include. You Belong. Our Belonging and Inclusion Strategy aims for everyone in the National Church Institutions (NCIs) to feel that they belong, and are valued for who they are and what they contribute. Together, our people contribute in different ways towards our common purpose, whichever NCI they work in and whatever their background. Living out our values in all that we do, we:
• Strive for Excellence
• Show Compassion
• Respect others
• Collaborate
• Act with Integrity