Part-time HR Business Partner - Learning and Development (12 month fixed-term contract)

Location: Head office, Newbury

Hours: Monday - Friday (working days can be flexible), a choice of 21 to 28 hours per week 

Salary: £34,500 (pro-rated)

Interviews: 90 minute competency-based interview held in our head office in Newbury. We aim to interview successful applicants within 10 working days. Feedback will be provided regardless of the outcome. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any point.

Do you have a passion for learning? Are you engaging and collaborative with a drive to deliver? If you have the confidence to coach and empower at scale, this could be the ideal opportunity for you.

Every employer is not the same and who you work for and what that environment looks and feels like is the difference between any job and a great job.  At Newbury Building Society, we are continuously considering how we can support and enable our 220 people to be the best they can be. We are recruiting for a HR Business Partner to deliver our learning and development strategy on a 12 month fixed-term contract and on a part time basis (21 to 28 hours per week).

We are committed to working with our people in a way that works. Please talk to us about what working pattern will work best for you. 

What will you be doing?

Reporting into the HR Manager you will partner with all areas of the business to ensure Newbury Building Society retains and develops skilled, enabled and engaged employees.

• Work with HR Manager to effectively allocate and utilise budget resource to enhance and build skills for the future.

• Support managers to build and develop leadership and coaching capability, including appropriate career development, performance management, stretch opportunities and succession planning.   

• Follow up and progress the ongoing effectiveness of L&D initiatives. 

• Using data driven decision making, challenge and enhance the L&D offering and processes to optimise budget, employee experience and business impact.  

• Design, build and facilitate appropriate learning interventions.

• Optimise, enhance and build engagement for digital learning capability by strategic deployment and development of the LMS.

• Generalist HR duties including ER as required by business needs.

Essential skills and experience:

• Proven experience of working with internal and/or external, customers in a business partner capacity to ensure the highest quality employee experience.

• Evidence of excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience of designing, developing and delivering L&D solutions.

• Experience of supporting performance management and appraisal processes.

• Experience of administering or working with a Learning Management System or digital and online learning.

• Competent in the use of Microsoft packages - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams.

Desirable skills and experience: 

• Generalist HR experience including ER case management.

• CIPD Level 3 qualification or equivalent.

• Experience of working within Financial services or other regulated environment.

Why work for Newbury Building Society?

• Positively impact the employee experience – we're small enough that you can have influence organisation-wide. You will be able to see first hand the differences you make to our people.

• We care about our communities – as well as providing financial services, we get involved in supporting local charities and people. This means regular opportunities to volunteer, fundraise, and help with community events and activities. All employees also receive two paid days of volunteering every year to help causes they feel passionately about.

• We're the proud winners of the Treating Customers Fairly Award at the 2024 British Bank Awards, reflecting our focus and dedication to excellent customer outcomes. 

You will also receive a generous holiday allowance, contributory stakeholder pension scheme, access to our free NBS Rewards discounts and our wellbeing programmes, and your birthday off!

*The salary offered is dependent on evidence of key competencies and skills you currently have. Newbury Building Society pride themselves on recruiting for potential so if you do not meet all of the criteria in terms of knowledge, experience and skills, you will benefit from learning and development opportunities to enable you to work towards the top of the salary range. This will be via ongoing feedback from your line manager and assessment of your progression against all the criteria.