Provides employee lifecycle support, employee relations guidance, HR compliance, learning and development coordination, HRIS administration, reporting, and people-process improvement. Advises managers on employment law, performance, absence, disciplinary, grievance, and family-friendly matters; manages training systems and calendars; supports international employees across US, EMEA, and APAC; and mentors the People Coordinator.
The Role
As a People Advisor, you'll play a key role in shaping a great employee experience for MVFers at different stages of the employee lifecycle. Armed with strong employment law knowledge, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, you will be a trusted advisor to your client groups.
Responsibilities
People Advisory
Employee Lifecycle
People Relations
Learning and Development
Systems and Processes
Compliance and Reporting
What Success Looks Like
Our Ideal MVFer
Take the next step in your HR career with a role that offers variety, impact, and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary People Team. Apply today!
As a People Advisor, you'll play a key role in shaping a great employee experience for MVFers at different stages of the employee lifecycle. Armed with strong employment law knowledge, business acumen, and interpersonal skills, you will be a trusted advisor to your client groups.
Responsibilities
People Advisory
- Mentor and guide the People Coordinator, with the opportunity to line manage them, and ensure KPIs and SLAs are met.
- Act autonomously as a trusted advisor to designated client groups within MVF, drawing on support and guidance from your People Partner when needed.
- Work closely with your People Partner to ensure joined-up, consistent support for shared client groups, and support them on strategic and wider organisational design and development projects.
- Work closely with key stakeholders to maintain excellent operational rhythms.
- Support the delivery of DE&I and wellbeing initiatives across client groups.
- Liaise with and provide people support to colleagues in our US and EMEA locations.
Employee Lifecycle
- Support onboarding and induction for new starters, ensuring a smooth and positive first experience.
- Manage the offboarding process, including exit interviews and leaver administration.
People Relations
- Advise and coach line managers on probation, performance management, sickness, disciplinary, and grievance processes, advising and coaching line managers throughout.
- Provide necessary training and feedback to managers on people processes.
- Support employees through family-friendly processes (e.g. maternity, paternity etc), and help identify opportunities to enhance and evolve these policies and processes over time.
- Manage complex employee relations issues and offer policy advice to managers and employees.
- Assist in reviewing and updating people policies to ensure ongoing legal compliance and best practice.
Learning and Development
- Own the planning and scheduling of the annual People training calendar, balancing internal delivery with external provision.
- Manage Docebo (our E-learning platform), to ensure all employees are compliant with mandatory training.This will include updating existing e-learning modules and working with the People Partners to develop new modules where required.
- Help source, brief, and manage relationships with external L&D providers and facilitators.
- Design and deliver own training sessions on core People topics (e.g. manager essentials, policy updates, employment law awareness) to build internal capability.
- Assist in the coordination and delivery of internal training events run by others across MVF.
- Contribute to assessment processes for internal developmental programmes.
- Gather and act on feedback to continuously improve the training calendar's relevance and impact.
Systems and Processes
- Oversee the development of functionality in HiBob (our HRIS), supported by the People Coordinator.
- Support the People Coordinator with TriNet and other Employer of Record (EOR) systems for our US and APAC populations.
- Continuously identify opportunities for process automation.
Compliance and Reporting
- Ensure operational compliance for standard employment processes like right-to-work checks and visa renewals.
- Generate high-level monthly reports and manage data integrity.
- Handle employee data in line with MVF's data protection obligations.
What Success Looks Like
- Proactive problem-solving rather than reactive troubleshooting.
- Positive feedback and high satisfaction from client groups.
- Timely resolution of employee relations casework.
- A well-run, well-received annual training calendar.
- Successful KPI and SLA achievement by the People Coordinator.
Our Ideal MVFer
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Confident designing and facilitating People training sessions.
- Resilient, especially in managing sensitive and challenging people issues.
- Proficient in UK employment law.
- Experience working with or supporting US and/or EMEA teams, ideally including exposure to Employer of Record (EOR) arrangements.
- Analytical, highly organised, and detail-oriented, with strong HRIS/Excel reporting skills.
- Experience working with HiBob HRIS is preferable but not essential.
- Experience line managing or coaching a direct report is preferable but not essential.
- Commercially focused with a willingness to adapt to change.
- A team player dedicated to the collective success of the People Team and MVF as a whole.
Take the next step in your HR career with a role that offers variety, impact, and the opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary People Team. Apply today!
MVF London, England Office
1A Shepherdess Walk, London, United Kingdom, N17QE
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