People Advisor

Are you passionate about people and eager to build a rewarding career in HR? This is the role for you!

About Tribal

Tribal is a leading EdTech business providing market leading software solutions to the global education market. We strive to research, develop and deliver the products, services and solutions needed by education institutes worldwide to support their primary goals of educating students, providing optimum learning experiences and ultimately delivering successful outcomes.

The HR team provide invaluable HR services and solutions, enable Tribal to attract, develop, engage, motivate and retain a diverse workforce of talented people. The team deliver services to our employees to maximise individual and organisational potential, through evidence-based approaches and an unrelenting focus on continuous improvement.

The Role

As the HR Advisor, your role is to offer clear, thorough, and business-oriented guidance and support to both managers and employees across various people-related matters. This can include employee relations, performance management, attendance and wellbeing issues, as well as organisational change initiatives.

The role offers an exciting opportunity for someone eager to advance in their HR career, gaining valuable experience across a broad scope of HR functions. You’ll be joining a strong, well-organised team of dedicated HR professionals who prioritise career development, training, and personal growth—providing the support and guidance needed to thrive and succeed.

The role is Remote with the requirement to travel to Sheffield/Hull and occasional travel to Bristol when needed.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing clear guidance on straightforward workplace issues like performance, absence, and wellbeing, while knowing when to seek out advice for more complex situations.
• Taking every opportunity to coach managers in the moment to develop their confidence and capability.
• Taking ownership of simpler people casework across EMEA, including performance improvement plans, attendance discussions, disciplinary and grievance hearings, business changes, flexible working applications, and wellbeing support. Ensure managers are well-prepared, records are maintained, and correspondence is accurate.
• Accurately record and promptly save all documentation related to people cases in the appropriate HR SharePoint location, ensuring cases are logged in the team’s tracking system.
• To engage in credible and proactive dialogue with employees at key points in the employment journey – e.g. onboarding, preparing for or returning to work from parental leave, those leaving Tribal’s employment, ensuring that employees feel that their views are listened to and valued and that any concerns will acted upon as appropriate and with suitable levels of discretion.
• Assisting the HR Team in ensuring that new managers at Tribal quickly understand their responsibilities as people managers. This includes supporting them before they join a formal management development program and overseeing a smooth knowledge transfer process as needed.
• Monitoring absence data for the region, proactively contacting managers when triggers are reached and/or patterns of concern are identified, to allow the right support to be provided to employees and managers.
• Updating People Advisory resources to reflect organisational, legislative, or policy changes, ensuring the hub remains current and accessible.
• maintaining the People Advisory inbox, ensuring that incoming emails are allocated to the appropriate team member, or responded to in a timely manner.

The skills you’ll have:

• Prior experience in a HR based role.
• Confident in having challenging conversation with employee and managers.
• Strong written communication.
• An ability to understand the needs and motivations of people.

It would be great if you had:

• CIPD qualification (this is not essential).
• Prior experience within a HR advisor position.

What can Tribal offer you?

We offer a range of exceptional benefits to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including a comprehensive Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Employee Assistance Programme, along with a generous parental leave package and the ability to buy or sell holiday each year. We also offer the option of working overseas for up to 8 weeks per year. You'll also have access to E-Learning Opportunities to enhance your skills, Volunteer Days to give back to your community and access to Achievers, our reward and recognition platform, to ensure you can thrive both personally and professionally in a supportive and rewarding environment.

We’re committed to creating an environment that enables employees to balance their responsibilities inside and outside of work and encourage and support a range of flexible working patterns for all colleagues. If you need flexibility, apply and discuss your needs with us.

As an equal opportunity employer, Tribal celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon any protected characteristics and actively welcome applications from all groups, not least those underrepresented in the tech sector.

Note to all applicants - Tribal reserve the right to close an advertisement to applications ahead of the advertised closure date. For this reason, shortlisting may take place prior to the closing date on some occasions. With this in mind, please do not hesitate to apply early.