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.