HR Advisor (0.4 FTE – Job Share)

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Human Resources

Interview Date: Friday 10 April 2026

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities.

This role will support the HR Partner Team to provide a high-quality professional HR service to manages and staff across the School.

You will work collaboratively with a complementary HR Advisor to ensure consistent five-day service coverage, with clear allocation of responsibilities and structured handover processes.

Responsibilities will include, interpreting policies and procedures and legislative requirements, seeking advice where needed from HR colleagues and supporting the HR Partners with employee relations case work e.g. notetaking in formal meetings and ensuring minutes and other confidential correspondence are collated accurately and produced quickly and efficiently and supporting the preparation of packs/bundles for formal investigations, grievance and disciplinary hearings.

You will provide support for HR project work and guidance and advice on a range of HR issues including contractual queries, employee relations cases and HR policies and procedures and also take on delegated responsibility for informal stages of employee relations cases.

You will be CIPD qualified or working towards CIPD graduate level or have equivalent professional experience including up-to-date knowledge of employment law and its application. You will have significant experience of providing a proactive and responsive HR advice & support service and of effective problem solving on a wide range of issues with competing priorities, together with experience of supporting the implementation of new procedures and procedural updates. Further particulars are included in the job description.

The post is part-time 14 hours per week, 0.4 FTE and permanent, and forms part of a structured job share arrangement within the HR Partnering team.

The salary will be on the LSHTM salary scale, Grade 5 in the range £39,984 - £45,728 per annum pro-rata (inclusive of London Weighting). The post will be subject to the LSHTM terms and conditions of service. Annual leave entitlement is 30 working days per year, pro rata for part time staff. In addition to this there are discretionary “Wellbeing Days”. Membership of the Pension Scheme is available. The post is based in London.

Applications should be made on-line via our jobs website.

Online applications will be accepted by the automated system until 10pm of the closing date.

Any queries regarding the application process may be addressed to jobs@lshtm.ac.uk.

The supporting statement section should set out how your qualifications, experience and training meet each of the selection criteria. Please provide one or more paragraphs addressing each criterion. The supporting statement is an essential part of the selection process and thus a failure to provide this information will mean that the application will not be considered. An answer to any of the criteria such as "Please see attached CV" will not be considered acceptable.

Please note that if you are shortlisted and are unable to attend on the interview date it may not be possible to offer you an alternative date.

Further Details: Job Description