About us

Royal Museums Greenwich is a collection of diverse historical sites. The sites are the National Maritime Museum, Cutty Sark, the Royal Observatory, and the Queen’s House. Each of these sites has a unique identity and a common purpose to serve our communities, through sharing our collections and expertise. We are a place to explore the sea, space, art and history, and our strategy ‘Charting Our Course’ puts people at the core of its success.

The Role

Working in the People and Culture team and reporting to the Senior People Partner, the People Partner will deliver a high quality, inclusive, problem solving, and people focused HR service to Royal Museums Greenwich managers and staff.

Key responsibilities include advising managers and employees on people related matters, family policies, flexible working and annual leave, and coordinating the probation review process. The role holder will develop and maintain people related systems, tools, procedures, and ways of working, consult with staff on Royal Museum Greenwich policies and procedures and use these outcomes to create and deliver tools such as manager guidance packs and staff and manager workshops. Employee Relations casework makes up 70% of the role, the role holder will be managing employee relations case work, including minute taking in investigations, disciplinary and appeal hearings, producing letters and relevant documentation to support. They will oversee delivery of Royal Museum Greenwich’s Wellbeing Strategy and Wellbeing Champion programme, ensure the organisation is compliant with the Disability Confident scheme, and work to develop initiatives to embed inclusive practices across the organisation which embrace differences.

The successful candidate will have experience of working in a generalist advisory HR role or HR team, providing added value and reactive and proactive HR support, case work, absence management, including advising on reasonable adjustments, and managing employee wellbeing and diversity and inclusion initiatives. The role holder will be highly organised with an ability to effectively prioritise and support others with prioritizing, have a strong understanding of confidentiality and GDPR requirements, and have experience of iTrent or equivalent HRIS.

This is a full time, fixed-term role for 3 months in Band 4 - Senior Specialists. Core hours of work will be 36, 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, with an additional hour to be worked as agreed upon with management. Due to the nature of the work flexibility is required in meeting the demands of the role.

Salary: £10,500 pro rata (£42,000 FTE)

We encourage you to read the full job description/person specification before applying for this role.

Please be aware that we are unable to sponsor visas.

Interviews are scheduled for Thursday 23rd July.

Benefits

We offer:

•    A generous pension scheme
•    6.5 days annual leave (25 days FTE), plus bank holidays (pro rata for the duration of the fixed-term contract)
•    40% discount in our cafés, 30% in our shops
•    Interest-free loans (travel, bike, gym, learning)
•    Free Life Assurance Scheme covering you for 2 times your annual salary
•    Free entry to exhibitions at partner museums and galleries
•    Flexible and hybrid working options
•    A culture that celebrates individuality, collaboration, and innovation

To find out more, read a full list of our benefits.

EDI

Diversity and inclusion are integral to our work at Royal Museums Greenwich, as we are a museum for everyone. We want to foster a spirit of inclusion, collaborative working, innovation, and valuing people as individuals whose lives have been shaped by different experiences. Therefore, we welcome applications from everyone.

We actively work with Disability Confident scheme and ask that you let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments you need or things you would like us to know during the interview process, which may include being provided with the interview questions in advance, requiring a step free interview space, that you are eye-contact avoidant, or having the interview questions in a written format or additional time in timed tests, interviews or other assessment activities.