People Experience Student Placement

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

On your placement in People Experience, you will help to create a great working environment that enables our people to thrive and promote a culture of trust through active listening and positive action.

Coordinating an assigned portfolio of activities, you will seek to enhance the interactions our people have with Northumbria University as an employer. This will include understanding how our people interact with policies, processes, and systems as well as the manager/ work relationship to identify and deliver opportunities to transform the way people feel about their work.

Data-informed and outcome-focused, you will help us to drive Northumbria University's reputation as great place to work.

Further information is available in the Job Description .

The role is fixed term for 12 months.

This placement opportunity is funded by NU:Opportunities Funding and is open to all students eligible to take a Placement Year between their second and final year for the 2024/2025 academic year. All candidates must be a current Level 5 student. It is vital that you please check the placement you are applying for is appropriate for you and relates to your course/modules. If you are unsure, please ask your Programme Leader or contact the Placements & Internships Team.

Closing Date: 02.06.2024

ABOUT THE TEAM

This role will be joining the People Experience Team within Human Resources.

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role you will have:

Knowledge of relevant and up-to-date theory of a positive People Experience

Strong team player, willing and able to work as part of a collaborative, passionate, proactive team

Collating and analysing information and data to make recommendations and support informed decisions.

Takes pride in delivering to high standards and exceeding customer expectations

Excellent oral and written communication skills including the ability to understand and convey a range of information including developing and presenting written reports

An enthusiastic approach with a commitment to work and develop

Further information is available in the Person Specification .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact [email protected]

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.

ABOUT US

At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow's challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.

Awarded the title of University of the Year in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

Our Northumbria Values are guiding principles that define who we are, what we do and what is important to us. Our Values are: Academic Excellence; Innovation; Inclusivity; Collaboration; and Ambition.

Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include City Campus Newcastle and Coach Lane Campus Newcastle.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme.

The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

We are committed to keeping your data safe so it's important for you to know how we use any personal data you give us. For more detailed information, access our Privacy Policy .On your placement in People Experience, you will help to create a great working environment that enables our people to thrive and promote a culture of trust through active listening and positive action. Coordinating an assigned portfolio of activities, you will seek to enhance the interactions our people have with Northumbria University as an employer. This will include understanding how our people interact with policies, processes, and systems as well as the manager/ work relationship to identify and deliver opportunities to transform the way people feel about their work. Data-informed and outcome-focused, you will help us to drive Northumbria University's reputation as great place to work.