HR and Compliance Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role ensuring the provision of an efficient and supportive HR and recruitment service at a forward thinking and growing school.

In conjunction with the Trust’s Central HR Team, the HR and Compliance Manager will be responsible for managing and delivering Brighton Girls school HR function, covering recruitment, employee relations, performance management, retention and talent management.

This will include advising colleagues on day-to-day employment matters, such as performance management, disciplinary procedures and employee issues, as well as delivering recruitment services for staff, managing the school’s payroll and administering the Single Central Register to ensure the school is compliant and maintaining its excellent reputation for safeguarding.

The ideal candidate will be CIPD qualified or have equivalent experience, with experience of HR administration processes, policies and procedures and a good understanding of basic employment legislation. Excellent interpersonal and communications skills, including the ability to relate well to people on all levels with sensitivity, tact and diplomacy, are equally important.

The hours are full time, full year but we are able to offer some flexibility for the right candidate.

Why join Brighton Girls?

As a founding school of the Girls’ Day School Trust, Brighton Girls has a significance in the history of girls’ education. Located in the heart of the city of Brighton; we are as eclectic, enterprising, and creative as the city itself. Our girls are bright and independent: they are resilient and not afraid to take risks; they have strong social consciences and enjoy learning.

As part of the Girls’ Day School Trust, our staff benefit from our 140-year history of excellence and innovation in girls’ education, with many opportunities to share ideas and best practice with colleagues across the network. They have access to an extensive central training and professional development programme to compliment school-based INSET, and also funding grants for individual courses of study.

Benefits include: 

• Competitive salaries and pay progression
• Access to extensive professional development opportunities
• Training grants for qualifications
• Generous pension schemes
• Free life assurance benefit
• A discount of up to 50% on fees for children at GDST schools
• Interest free loans for training, computer purchase loans and travel season ticket loans
• A Cycle to Work scheme
• Competitive terms and conditions of employment

For further information and to apply for this position, please click the apply button.

Closing date: Wednesday 12th October 2022 at midday.

Interviews will take place w/c 17th October 2022.

The school reserves the right to appoint an exceptional candidate at any stage of the application process.

The GDST is committed to diversity, inclusion and real change: a family where every individual is valued, respected and included. 

We are committed to the safeguarding of children and child protection screening will apply to this post.