Talent Acquisition Lead at Wellcome Trust

Closing date: 27th November

Contract type: Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 8th December

Salary: £85,900

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health. These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Employee Relations Lead to help shape and execute the Employee Relations strategy within Wellcome.

Where will I be working?

Reporting into the Head of People Operations, you will be an integral part of our People team playing an active role in helping develop and implement the plans enabling Wellcome to become the best place to work, in support of the delivery of the mission.

What will I be doing?

As the Employee Relations Lead, you will handle complex employee relations cases, build and nurture partnerships with our staff forum and union, project manage all organisational structural change processes, and lead a team of Employee Relations Managers to ensure the alignment of Employee Relations activities across the organisation.

Minimum requirements

• Exceptional leadership and team management skills with a track record of leading ER teams successfully.
• Proven experience in employee relations management within a complex organisational structure, including substantial experience in handling complex cases including management of cases going through to Employment Tribunal.
• Extensive IR experience, managing internal staff forums and union relationships.
• Experience or leading large scale structural change programmes and TUPE.
• Strong understanding of UK employment law.

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best. At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for people who have a disability or long-term condition. Please visit our website for more information on adjustments and accessibility, or contact us at jobs@wellcome.org.

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’. For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance. You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here. You can view our Privacy Statement here.

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Function

Human Resources

Industries

Non-profit Organizations