L&D/HR Administrator in Galashiels, Scotland

The Company Able Bridge Recruitment are delighted to be working with an organisation whose goal is to provide businesses in the region with a platform for growth and innovation. We are supporting them currently in the recruitment of an L&D administrator on a 12 month fixed term contract.

Benefits include:

• 4 day working week
• Hybrid working (minimum of 1 day in the office)
• Exceptionally generous holiday entitlement
• Life assurance/death in service
• Enhanced sick pay
• Pension scheme that is highly attractive

This vacancy is a newly created role and will be reporting into the HR business partnering directorate, and ultimately into the head of human resources. The role will be based in the Scottish borders for at least one day per week; however, travel may be required to other office locations.

The Responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to work closely with the HR Business Partnering team to deliver learning and development services as well as HR administration services to the team. You will be involved in a variety of differing tasks and can expect to be kept busy at all times. Your time will be split equally between L&D tasks and HR requirements. On a day-to-day basis you can expect to be responsible for the following:

• Coordination of Learning and Development within the organization throughout their journey, advertising opportunities, creating and managing the booking process and supporting our people with their development.
• Administer all Learning Systems within HR, ensuring data held is accurate and staff comfortable utilising the benefits of each system.
• Work with subject matter experts to create bespoke learning experiences.
• Manage the People Portal App for a number of HR requirements, ensuring requests are dealt with in a timely manner and continually reviewing our processes.
• Create HR processes and guides which are short, sharp and interactive utilising the Learning Systems in place.
• Ensure data on mandatory training is available and presented appropriately for staff and managers.
• Manage the HR Inbox, respond to general queries and ensure that they are closed out in a timely manner, escalating others to the HR Business Partners/Manager as appropriate.
• Liaise with HR Shared Services to ensure contract change and payroll instructions are actioned in an accurate and timely manner.
• Act as first point of contact for all new starts and coordinate onboarding inductions, ensuring an excellent onboarding process that fully reflects our clients' values, liaising with HRBP to continuously improve the onboarding experience.
• Support the recruitment and selection processes, liaising with applicants and candidates where necessary as well as line managers to review and update job descriptions and adverts as required.

The Requirements

We are seeking a tenacious and motivated learning & development administrator who has a minimum of 3 years in an L&D role. Prior experience as an HR generalist would also be beneficial. Applicants will need to be owner/drivers as our client's location is challenging to get to on public transport. Ideally, candidates will live in either Midlothian, East Lothian or the Scottish borders. We are looking for an individual who has an inquisitive mindset and who will embrace tools like AI to improve the L&D offering. Candidates will need to be organised, able to work on their own initiative and be proactive in approach. This is a fantastic opportunity for a candidate to hone in on their L&D/HR administration career. Our client does not hold a license to offer study support so will only consider applicants who are able to work unrestricted within the UK and who are based in the immediate vicinity.

If you are interested in hearing more detail about this role or would like to have a confidential chat about a potential career move, please do not hesitate in contacting me.