Employee Relations Advisor

Description:

Lancaster University is an academic powerhouse that combines high quality teaching and research with a strong sense of community and belonging. Lancaster’s strengths are in teaching, research and the student experience reflecting their distinctive community.

Our Lancaster University values believe in respecting each other by being open and fair and promoting diversity, we build strong communities by working effectively together in a supportive way and we create positive change by being ambitious in our learning, expertise and action.

Our People and Operational Effectiveness (POE) team is dynamic, collegiate and looks after all aspects of the employee life cycle. The role of Employee Relations Advisor (ER) in the Employee Relations and Organisational Change is a new role and offers an exciting opportunity to gain experience as an Advisor whilst being part of a specialist team. As a member of the Employee Relations and Organisational Design team, you will contribute to the development of the Employee Relations Strategy, and be part of the team that will have collective accountability for its delivery across the University as a whole. This role will take an active role in Organisational Change projects and work closely with our HR Partnering team with a particular focus on re-structures, redundancy, and consultations across the University.

You will have an excellent track record of being involved in Employee Relations issues including casework up to final written warning level, and show evidence of Organisational Change experience in particular consultations and working with Trade Unions. The post requires a someone who works collaboratively with all of its stakeholders, in particular Faculty/Department managers. You will also be support the development of Organisational Change processes and procedures, the implementation of an automated Casework system and support the development and roll-out of Employee Relations training across the University.