Hope for Justice is a charity working to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery with an effective and proven multi-disciplinary model. Our wholly owned social enterprise, Slave-Free Alliance, provides services to global companies and public bodies seeking to protect their operations and supply chains against the risks of modern slavery and labour exploitation. We have active programmes in the UK, USA, Ethiopia and Uganda, reaching approximately 200,000 adults and children a year. Hope for Justice and Slave-Free Alliance have staff and volunteers involved in operational support, fundraising or other initiatives in Australia. Hope for Justice exists to bring freedom from human trafficking and modern slavery by identifying victims, supporting survivors and preventing exploitation. If you’re looking to make a difference, this is the place for the you. Hope for Justice is committed to the principles of equity, diversity and inclusion. We are a global organisation with staff from a wide variety of backgrounds, and ensure through our recruitment processes that we continue to welcome candidates from all walks of life. If you feel that your skills and experience fit one of our advertised roles, and you share our values and mission to end slavery, then we strongly encourage your application regardless of your background.
Position:
Hope for Justice exists to bring an end to modern slavery by preventing exploitation, rescuing victims, restoring lives and reforming society – do you share our passion to live in a world free from slavery?
We have an exciting opportunity for a keen HR Administrator to join our team, to support with the delivery of high quality and efficient HR functions across the organisation.
Our HR Team delivers a range of HR services, covering the full employee life cycle. As HR Administrator, you will help provide a comprehensive HR administration service to the Human Resource team and be a point of contact for all staff and administrative enquiries.
You will also provide proactive and competent support with the HR Information System (HRIS), and ensure the HR Database is up-to-date and accurately maintained.
You will be a committed team player with a demonstrable background of collaborative working, you should have excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain good working relationships.
Strong organisational and administrative skills, as well as the ability to maintain confidentiality are essential, with some familiarity with HR administration and recruitment processes being a bonus.
Requirements:
Perform administrative tasks associated with the recruitment and selection process including but not limited to drafting and posting adverts and scheduling and arranging interviews, and supporting on conducting 1st stage interviews. Responsible for timely communication with all candidates including notifications to unsuccessful candidates and assisting with the preparation of offer paperwork Work with the HR team to ensure that pre-employment checks take place, including references and DBS checks and that all other necessary paperwork is received from new staff and properly recorded and filed. Administer the on boarding and leaver process for staff through the HRIS and JML – adding new staff information and adding leaver information. As well as supporting with the running of HR inductions for new starters. Support in the maintenance and updating of the HRIS to ensure that it contains up to date and accurate information for all current staff and in line with data protection guidelines. Monitor the HR team inbox, ensuring emails are answered in a timely manner escalating as appropriate to the Senior HR Advisor and Head of HRCollaborate with payroll by providing timely updates on new starters, leavers, and contractual changes that affect payroll processing. Collect and organise data for organisational metrics for the Head of HR Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise. Complete the administration for HR activities such as:- Annual performance reviews
- Probation reviews
- DBS Renewals
- Cyclical reporting
- Exit Interview issuing and data collection
- Oversee and maintain the volunteer/ intern system
- Support the wider HR team in reviewing and developing global projects and policies.
- Understand and uphold the standards outlined in the Hope for Justice Safeguarding policies, acting with due care and attention to safeguard the wellbeing of anyone that comes into contact with our work and reporting concerns if they do arise.
Other information:
Benefits Of Working At Hope For Justice
Hope for Justice are committed to supporting our staff’s wellbeing and offers competitive salaries and a range of additional benefits to our staff.
Hope for Justice is a Living Wage employer, accredited by the Living Wage Foundation.
As part of Hope for Justice, you will benefit from an excellent package including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (prorata for part time employees)
- 1 day Marriage Leave
- Birthday Day
- Enhanced employer pension contributions
- Company sick pay
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Access to our Employee Rewards Platform, providing discounts and offers for well-known retailers
- Free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme for staff and their family
- Professional development opportunities
- Professional memberships paid
- Flexible and hybrid working
Role Details
Job type: Part Time (25 hours per week, 5 hours per day, Monday - Friday)
Salary: Up to £25,000 FTE based on experience
Closing date: 13th June 2025
Applications will be reviewed and interviews held on a rolling basis. The advert may be removed prior to the closing date if the position is filled. If you are interested in this role please ensure to submit your application as soon as possible.
Location: Manchester (Hybrid working)
All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which include criminal records checks, in line with our Global background checks policy – to view this please click here. Hope for Justice participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this scheme, as part of the referencing process we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.
Personal data of the selected candidate(s) may be transmitted to INTERPOL for a security check for the purpose of identifying threats the candidate could pose to children and vulnerable persons in regard to a sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment offences.
We would like to inform you that due to the high number of applicants we receive, we regret that we are not able to respond individually to all applicants. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for further steps in the selection process, thank you for your understanding.
