People Lead (maternity cover)

• Location: remote, UK.  
• Salary: £45,000 - £50,000
• Hours: 35 hours per week
• Contract type: Fixed term (12-month maternity cover).
• Application deadline: 16th February 2025
• Interview Dates: w/c 3rd March 2025
  
  

 About RNID

We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.

Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus.

We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.

RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We’re focused on making the greatest impact possible across the whole of the UK. We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.

Join our team

At RNID we have big, ambitious plans to make real impact for our communities. To do that, we need the right people in our team.

We are a remote working organisation, with colleagues based across the UK in locations from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and everywhere in between. We come together in person three times a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events for sharing skills and ideas, hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues. Working in this way, we bring together the best of digital and in-person working in a modern, progressive organisation. We know our colleagues have responsibilities and interests outside work and we want to support that, which is why we offer a sector-leading flexible working policy to all our staff from day one.

Our values are at the heart of how we work and communicate with each other, and the outside world. We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious, and passionate in everything we do.

Does that sound like a good fit? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you…

Our People Lead will:

• Provide an HR business partnering function to all levels of management, including the Senior Leadership Team.
• Manage complex people matters providing coaching, support, and guidance to managers.
• Be responsible for all people business processes, including payroll.
• Manage our People Team.
  
  

What You Will Be Doing 

You will: 

• Support the COO and Senior Leadership team with people planning and development.
• Use evidence and data to identify people priorities for the charity and address future workforce needs.
• Review and develop existing people processes, policies, and procedures to ensure effective systems are in place to provide a quality, compliant and responsive people service (including payroll).
• Provide guidance on people practices such as restructures.
• Coach and provide feedback to key stakeholders to help drive a performance culture.
• Line manage, coach and develop the people team - including the People Adviser and People Coordinator.
  
  

You 

You can demonstrate clear leadership and the ability to influence and persuade others. You are an expert in your technical or professional area and apply this knowledge to the activities of the organisation. You support this by keeping up to date with changes in legislation and new developments in human resources and are responsible for your own continuous personal development.

 Qualifications 

CIPD Level 7 or equivalent

What We Can Offer You  

Your benefits include:

• 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
• Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
• Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
• Fully remote working with no core hours
• £26 remote working allowance every month
• In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
• Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
• Life Assurance of 2 x annual salary
• Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions
• Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
• Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
• Access to a discounted event ticketing platform
  
  

Our commitment to diversity 

We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments.  If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you. 

Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.

RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.

It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-peak times, the employer may need to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered. This will include the number of interviews offered to disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.