Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Partner (Permanent)

Job Title: Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Partner

Location: Highbury, Portsmouth

Salary: £33,792 - £35,846 (Full-Time Equivalent)

Job Type: Full-Time, Permanent, 37 hours per week, 52 weeks per year.

About City of Portsmouth College:

As the newly merged City of Portsmouth College, we aspire to be the employer of choice in the Portsmouth area, with a progressive, supportive, and rewarding workplace culture and one that offers competitive benefits for its staff. By joining us, you will personally be part of the change we are driving and will play a pivotal role in supporting the growth and development of our brilliant students, turning them into future leaders and innovators. Everyone at City of Portsmouth College is part of the bigger picture and together, each role makes an impact and in turn a difference to our students learning journey.

We have an unrivalled curriculum of courses on offer for students of all ages and stages covering A-levels, Apprenticeships, Vocational & Technical courses. We also offer Higher Education, Online learning and Community courses that appeal to the needs of the local community.

What we offer:

• Annual Leave: 41 days which includes 25 days annual leave, up to 8 days for Winter closure plus 8 bank holidays
• Local Government Pension Scheme 26.10%
• Learning & Development programmes by The Community Adult Education Department.
• Onsite discounts: COPC Hair Salon & 50% off at the COPC Sports Centre.
• Online discounts: Unidays, Student Beans and Totum with a COPC email address.
• Free car parking across all campus sites.

About the role:

The Employee Engagement and Wellbeing Partner will provide high quality, professional, proactive people focused support and advice to staff and managers working with all levels of the College management team in relation to employee engagement and wellbeing. The Engagement and Wellbeing Partner will proactively support the delivery of the People Strategy across the College and take a lead role in the EEDI strategy implementation, staff forums and staff surveys, analysing results to develop and implement positive change. The role will also take a lead role in HR/People project work, policy and procedure development and the creation and delivery of people training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the successful delivery of College's strategic and operational business plans
• Lead the delivery of the People Strategy and operational people priorities
• Deploying new engagement solutions that support the strategic objectives
• Managing the cross-college group health and wellbeing service
• Building and executing communications strategies to deliver employee experience solutions
• Project managing delivery of tactical and strategic employee experience solutions
• Lead on the EEDI initiatives
• Partner with, support, advise and guide managers and staff on wellbeing and engagement projects
• Generate, collate and interpret people data, to implement effective change from an engagement and wellbeing perspective
• Lead on staff absence
• Liaise with recognised trade unions
• Work with Training & Development team to develop and lead training on employee relations matters
• Identify and recommend a range of solutions

To be successful in this role, below is what we would need from you:

• A minimum of CIPD Level 5 qualification or equivalent experience in a People/HR role
• Demonstrable experience and understanding of EEDI Initiatives and embedding them across an organisation
• Demonstrable evidence and practical experience of working at a mid-level within a People/HR department with a focus on employee engagement ideally within the FE sector.
• Ability to manage a diverse workload to challenging and sometimes conflicting deadlines
• Effective negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to apply these across the range of cross College relationships

Diversity and Inclusion:

Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are central to the work of City of Portsmouth College. This underpins the vision of the College to transform lives through providing exceptional education and training.

The College's commitment to Equality, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion is reflected in the continued successful promotion of these strands through the curriculum, enrichment activities and the range of direct and indirect student support services.

Pre Employment Checks:

The City of Portsmouth College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people in our college. All successful candidates will be subject to an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and two references.

We reserve the right the close the job advert when we have had successful applications, and it may not run for the full duration of the advert.

We do not accept CV's from agencies for these roles.