Serpentine Galleries
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Job: People Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
Job: People Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
Organisation: Serpentine Galleries
Postcode: W2 3XA
- Job Title: People Business Partner (Maternity Cover)
- Salary: £50k+
- Hours:
Full time - Role: Human Resources
- Contract: Contract
- Closing date: Sun, 01 Feb 2026
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Location:
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Job Summary
We are looking to recruit an experienced People Business Partner to join our small but busy People Team! This will be a maternity cover on a 12-month fixed-term contract starting on Monday, 18 May.
Job Description
- Act as the first point of contact for your business area, effectively communicating and dealing with queries in a proactive, professional and positive way.
- Coach, influence, guide and constructively challenge people managers and leaders to ensure strong people performance.
- Partner with leaders to identify talent, strategic resourcing, and capability requirements in line with the longer-term people needs of the organisation.
- Act as subject matter expert in employee relations matters, keeping up to date with legal changes and ensuring appropriate application of people policies and procedures.
- Coach and support managers on employee relations matters. Provide guidance and practical expertise to managers, highlighting risks and issues with a strategic, legal or employee relations impact to the Head of People.
- Support the end-to-end recruitment, onboarding and probation processes for your business areas. Think creatively to develop talent sourcing strategies to aid specific business strategic initiatives. Attend recruitment interviews as a panel member as and when required and work with hiring managers to ensure a professional and positive candidate/new employee experience.
- Support managers to identify and meet development needs within their teams, ensuring we have clear development pathways for our people.
- Support managers in their management of underperformance in line with the capability procedure, embedding a culture of positive and proactive performance management.
- Research and update draft employment policies and procedures to ensure they are up to date and reflect current legislation and good practice.
- Maintain accurate People records.
- Produce monthly payroll file processing employee adjustments including joiners, leavers and submit the relevant information to the payroll bureau.
- Administer pension scheme and other benefit schemes.
- Provide support for (and lead on some) change management initiatives and People Projects.
Job Requirements
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of in-house end to end recruitment and selection processes and a strong knowledge of recruitment legislation and good practice.
- Strong knowledge of employment legislation and good practice and ability to deliver expert advice on a wide range of people issues.
- Excellent communication skills; effective questioning and active listening and the ability to write in an engaging manner.
- Ability to uses data, knowledge, communication and relationship skills to positively influence key decisions.
- Ability to form effective relationships with key stakeholders across the Gallery.
- Pro-active problem solver capable of working on their own initiative but knows when to seek guidance and support.
- An ability to make informed decisions.
- Strong team player, highly flexible and positive attitude to change
- Demonstrable experience in monthly payroll processing
Desirable
- Part or fully CIPD qualified (desirable).
How to Apply
Please apply with your CV and Cover Letter. In your Cover Letter, please address:
How your industry knowledge, skills and proven experience will bring benefit to the role;
Examples of how you have applied skills and experience relevant to this role in your current or previous work;
What specifically attracts you to this role and Serpentine.
- Contact name: Georgina Vrynioti
- Contact email: [email protected]
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