People Development Officer

Contract - Full time
Salary - £24,000 - £28,000 depending on experience
This is an exciting new role focusing on skills development of staff, volunteers, and residents at YMCA Humber.
The main responsibility of this role includes:
Recruitment of staff and volunteers
- Coordinate all our staff and volunteer recruitment activity in line with safer recruitment practices
- Provide support to recruiting managers and applicants to ensure a smooth, well communicated process and that we recruit the right person for the right role at the right time
- Lead the development, delivery, and regular review of our induction process, ensuring it is fit for purpose
- Support the conclusion of the employment / volunteering journey with appropriate exit processes and identification of improvement areas.
Leading the delivery of a diverse training programme for staff, volunteers, and residents
- Identify learning and development requirements
- Leading the design and delivery of diverse training programmes
- Design course evaluations and provide evaluation reporting, promoting organisational understanding of the impact of learning interventions and programmes
- Research, source and engage external training providers to support identified development requirements.
People systems and policies
- Provide support to managers across the whole spectrum of people related casework, including attendance management, discipline, grievance, etc.
- Ensure all people policies comply with legislation, are up to date and accessible to all
- Produce timely data, to support our reporting to the board and to support the identifying areas for improvement
- Oversight of our people system (currently Breathe HR), ensuring accuracy of data and timely reporting.
Developing staff engagement initiative
- Manage the annual staff engagement survey and implementation of agreed actions
- Support the development and implementation of improvement items identified at the staff forum
- Identify engagement and well-being best practice and determine how these can be developed within YMCA Humber.
Experience required:
- Facilitating, designing, and delivering training
- Seeking out information and researching options
- Writing HR, recruitment, and learning and development policies and procedures
- Managing people and training systems and platforms for accessing inputting and compiling data
- Using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, and the use of remote meeting tools.
Skills required:
- A proactive problem solver
- Driven self-starter, comfortable with working alone and as a proactive team member
- Effective communicator, influencer, and relationship builder, with strong written communication skills
- Ability to prioritise work and manage own diary
- A demonstrable commitment to equality, inclusion, and diversity.
Please send your CV and a supporting statement to recruitment@ymca-humber.com. Please note an enhanced DBS is required for this role.
Closing date: Monday 22nd May.