People Partner

Job Title: People Partner

Location: Hybrid Working on at our Campus in Oxford Road, Manchester / Remote

Salary: £47,389 to £58,225 per annum, dependent on relevant experience

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time (1 FTE)

Closing Date: 16/09/2025

The University of Manchester are seeking to appoint a dynamic and experienced People Partner to join their People Team.

The purpose of the role is to ensure the quality and consistent delivery of people solutions to faculties, schools and PS teams with a focus on talent, succession, organisational and workforce design, development, performance and a culture of belonging. The People Partner is a trusted advisor and coach to school, professional services (PS) or functional leadership teams, supported by People Services and Centre of Excellence (CoE) teams within the wider People directorate. The role is responsible for identifying faculty / PS and Cultural Institution (CI) organisational needs, to commission the expertise of the relevant CoEs and for embedding the CoE interventions that respond to those needs. The role will support 1 -2 schools within faculty, 1-2 larger PS directorates or 1-2 critical functional line teams.

This is a hybrid role with a minimum of 2/3 days working on our campus on Oxford Road, Manchester.

This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual looking to advance their career in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Person Specification:

• Knowledge and/or experience of applying OD tools and techniques.
• Up to date knowledge of best practice, current innovations, trends and developments in HR and understands the relevance to the University and its goals.
• Experience of working as a HR / People Partner in a unionised environment.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting the successful delivery of change programmes in a large and complex organisation.
• Experience of successfully promoting a positive and enabling culture that puts the people experience at the heart of service delivery.
• Commercial Awareness - Has the ability to connect people requirements to the priorities and performance goals of the University.
• Strategic Thinking - Carefully considers known organisational factors and drivers and is able to integrate these into people plans and priorities. Demonstrates ability to integrate organisational strengths and development areas into people plans in response to internal and external influencers.
• Analytical Thinking - Uses multiple sources of information and data. Translates insights into a people narrative that turns discussions into tangible recommendations, actions and solutions. Is curious about trends and has the drive to investigate root cause and effect.
• Service Excellence - Delivers agreed priorities effectively and in a timely manner. Champions efficient delivery methods including automation and self-serve approaches. Has a continuous improvement mindset and frequently identifies and delivers improvements to service delivery.
• Change Management - Uses organisational knowledge to lead design and people change conversations. Demonstrates the ability to translate commercial, financial, strategic and operational priorities into clear and achievable change initiatives with clear delivery plans.
• Continuous Improvement - Demonstrates a consistent continuous improvement mindset, applying principles across all stands of delivery in the people plan. Is able to translate process steps into people experiences and evolving business needs and is a key contributor to CI solutions.
• People Advocacy and Culture - Takes a people centred approach to the design of people plans, delivery and resolution of conflict. Translates stakeholder priorities into tangible people experiences. Champions the people experience and coaches leadership teams in taking a people centred approach.
• Collaboration - Actively builds and maintains collaborative and long-lasting internal and external relationships. Works effectively with key stakeholders to identify and understand priorities and challenges, requirements and to agree on range of people priorities in response to stakeholder needs.
• Influencing - Leverages trust and collaborative relationships to build support for ideas. Is able to anticipate and mitigate for potential barriers and resistance. Can present ideas in the context of benefits to stakeholder priorities.
• Professionally qualified - either MCIPD or broad based business qualification supported by practical HR experience in all aspects of HR, including reward, employee relations/engagement, resourcing and training & development.

What you will get in return:

• Fantastic market leading Pension scheme
• Excellent employee health and wellbeing services including an Employee Assistance Programme
• Exceptional starting annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
• Additional paid closure over the Christmas period
• Local and national discounts at a range of major retailers

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Candidates with experience of; Personnel Officer, Human Resources Officer, HR Officer, HR Executive, Personnel Manager, Personnel Development, People Development, Staff Development Officer may also be considered for this role.