Strategic People Partner

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Pay

£51,580 - £56,067 a year
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Full-time
 
Location
Birmingham•Hybrid work
 
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Company pension
 
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Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

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JOB INFO

Job Identification
534
Job Category
Professional
Posting Date
05/14/2025, 02:52 AM
Apply Before
05/27/2025, 05:5+ PM
Job Schedule
Full time
Locations
Human Resources
(Hybrid)
The full-time starting salary is normally £51,580.00 per annum, with progression available in post to £56,067.00 per annum. This role also carries a 10% market supplement.
Grade: MA3

Full-time, permanent role.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced and passionate, people-centred professional to join our dedicated, friendly, and highly skilled Business Partnering Team.

Reporting to the Head of HR Business Partnering, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and supporting a culture of continuous improvement across the University. Working as an integral member of the Senior Business Partnering Team, you will proactively identify, plan, and meet workforce needs through a coaching and facilitative approach, directly contributing to the delivery of the University’s strategic objectives.

You will be an experienced Strategic People Partner with a genuine passion for people, service excellence, and transformational change. With a strong grasp of the full range of people management practices, you will bring a holistic understanding of the business partnering function and the processes and policies that underpin effective and strategic people engagement.

You will have:

Proven experience advising and consulting with senior leaders.
Excellent people management and relationship-building skills.
The confidence and communication skills to influence, challenge, and support senior stakeholders.
A creative mindset, seeing opportunities in every challenge.
A collaborative, open and honest approach that builds trust.
The courage to offer high challenge and high support, always aligned with the University’s values and mission.
You’ll be part of a forward-thinking university that values innovation, diversity, and continuous development. Our people are at the heart of everything we do, and this role offers the chance to make a real and lasting impact.

We offer a generous pension and annual leave provision (40 days including statutory holidays), family-friendly policies and state-of-the-art campus facilities. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on-site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties.

Informal queries in relation to this opportunity are very welcome, and should be directed to Annwyn Williams, Head of HR Business Partnering at annwyn.williams@bcu.ac.uk.

Interviews for this role will take place on the 10th of June 2025.

The selection process will include an interview and a work-related exercise element, and full details will be provided to shortlisted candidates in advance.


Job Description

The appointed candidate will normally be employed through our subsidiary company BCU Support Services Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Birmingham City University. Appointees with prior LGPS membership who wish to enter the LGPS scheme will be able to do so and will be employed by Birmingham City University directly.


ABOUT US

At the heart of our Strategy for 2030 and Beyond, it is our mission to enable our students to transform their lives and to achieve their potential. Through our education and research, and the roles our graduates go on to play in the world, we not only support individuals to transform their lives, but we also play a part in transforming society.
Located in the centre of the UK’s second city, we are a university with a long heritage of innovation and of making, dating back to our origins in 1843 when we were founded as the Birmingham Government School of Design.

Our heritage of making through innovation and its application through knowledge exchange, and of creative research and practice, today finds it expression in our STEAM agenda, in our research and enterprise, and in our commitment to challenge-based learning. Working across disciplines, and delivering impactful research and enterprise, interdisciplinarity is at the heart of the continuing transformation of our academic portfolio.