HR Advisor

We are seeking an HR Advisor to join our People Performance Improvement Team (PPIT) based in Kilburn, London. This role requires a high level of professional HR expertise, particularly in the administration of exit programmes and leavers processes. The ideal candidate will possess a strong track record in stakeholder engagement and project delivery, ensuring that HR initiatives are implemented with precision, empathy, and efficiency within a dynamic and operationally complex environment.

Pay rate: £337 per day via PAYE // £440 per day via Umbrella

Location: North-West London - Hybrid

Contract end date: 31/12/2026

Day-to-day of the role:

• Complete HR exit administration tasks, manage expressions of interest, and coordinate and facilitate scheme panels.
• Prepare panel documentation and ensure adherence to governance and compliance standards.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for officers and line managers, offering responsive and professional support to resolve queries and concerns.
• Provide strategic and operational guidance to managers on the implications of specific HR projects and their impact on affected officers.
• Deliver direct support to impacted officers, ensuring they are well-informed about relevant policies and processes to enable confident decision-making.
• Liaise with all HR teams involved in the project to ensure alignment and awareness of project timelines, volumes, and changes, escalating issues where necessary.
• Coordinate with panel members to ensure panels are conducted in accordance with scheme policies and procedures, and that outcomes are communicated promptly and accurately.
• Proactively identify any issues that could impact the delivery of HR Project timelines and objectives.
• Work with local management of impacted officers to ensure they are aware of their roles and responsibilities and escalate to Project Lead any Project wider issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• CIPD qualified or studying towards the qualification or possessing extensive HR knowledge/experience.
• Possess a broad knowledge of HR issues and understand the linkages to wider areas of the business.
• Experience in payroll and pensions administration.
• Ability to rapidly build trust and good working relationships with internal and external partners including Staff Association representatives, third-party providers, Occupational Health, and HR case managers.
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications (Excel, Word, PowerPoint), and the ability to support scheduling, HR meetings, and collaboration both in person and via Teams.
• Effective meeting facilitation and accurate record-keeping.
• Proven capability to work with data and provide insights from analysis (trends, hotspots, risks and issues).
• Action- and delivery-focused, able to seek solutions and provide succinct summary information to support issue resolution.
• Experience delivering exceptional service, ensuring a positive customer experience; able to review HR services from the customer perspective.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail, and the ability to prioritise and deliver high-quality work within agreed timescales.