HR Adviser

City St George’s, University of London - HR Operations

Redeployee applicants please note: Please email your CV and cover letter with the job title and reference number, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

The Human Resources directorate’s primary roles are:

• To support the corporate and operations functions of the university, ensuring the university is able to comply with the law and other regulations governing its operation, through the development and maintenance an effective and compliant framework of policies and procedure, and other governance mechanisms.
• To provide high quality consultancy service, advice and guidance to managers and individual members of staff in relation to all aspects of employment.
• To lead on and support organisational development and culture change, in support of City St George’s strategic direction and agreed values.

Responsibilities

As part of the People Service Team, you will support the delivery of efficient, high quality, customer-focused HR services to managers and staff across Schools and Professional Services, in accordance with City St George’s policies and procedures.

Person Specification

The successful candidate will be expected to have:

• An undergraduate degree (or equivalent experience).
• A level 3 qualification in Human Resource Management.
• Experience of providing HR advisory services within a large complex organisation.
• Practical experience of employee relations, change and performance management.
• Practical experience of recruitment and selection techniques and administering the employee life cycle from beginning to end.

Additional Information

Closing date for applications:

• Redeployees 25 January 2026 at 11:59pm
• Internal 01 February 2026 at 11:59pm
• External 08 February 2026 at 11:59pm

Interviews are scheduled to take place on:

• Redeployee candidates: 27 January 2026
• Internal candidates: 10 February 2026
• External candidates: 18/19 February 2026

The selection process will involve an interview. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

The University of business, practice and the professions