Job Description

This is a truly exciting opportunity for a dedicated and enthusiastic HR Professional with an interest in the Education sector, to support and work with the Director of HR and HR Team at The MFG Academies Trust.

Working alongside the Director of HR you will be responsible for delivering a best practice HR service to our Trust across 3 sites and over 360 employees.

Our schools are:

• The Mirfield Free Grammar & Mirfield College
• Colne Valley High School, Huddersfield
• Marsden Junior School, Huddersfield

This is a very busy and demanding function where there are constant requests and enquiries. You must enjoy working in this kind of environment and confidently be able to multi-task and priorities your workload, sometimes having to push back where necessary.

This is an extremely broad based, generalist HR role within a fast paced environment that calls for high levels of responsibility and confidentiality.

You will support the HR team with a number of functions such as:

• General HR Admin & Support
• Absence Management admin support
• Recruitment admin
• Providing Personal Assistant support to the Director of HR

With a natural interest in HR, you must be qualified to CIPD Level 3 or Level 5 and you will demonstrate good sound knowledge of HR practice.

HR has a really positive reputation across the Trust and you must be able to support that by providing the very best levels of service to all employees and stakeholders. You must have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to communicate effectively at all levels.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities