Discovery Trust
People Admin Team Leader
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Lead a Team That Makes a Difference Every Day
At Discovery Trust, we know that great people services help great schools thrive. We're looking for a motivated and organised People Admin Team Leader to lead our People Administration team and ensure our schools and central teams receive a responsive, high-quality and customer-focused service.
This brand new role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys developing people, improving processes, data and systems and making sure things run smoothly. You'll provide day-to-day leadership to a team that supports recruitment, onboarding, contracts, compliance, payroll administration, compliance and people systems, helping to deliver a positive experience for colleagues and leaders across the Trust.
About the Role
As People Admin Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading and supporting the People Administration team, you’ll take the lead on ensuring the accuracy and integrity of our data and systems, help shape our people metrics to support data led decisions, and drive continuous process improvement activity.
You'll oversee workloads, provide guidance and support to team members, and work closely with schools and colleagues to ensure their needs are met. This is a hands-on role where you'll combine people management with operational delivery, helping the team provide an excellent service while identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Leading, motivating and developing the People Administration team.
- Overseeing key people administration processes.
- Lead on HR and payroll data and systems accuracy and integrity
- Producing key people reports and managements information
- Monitoring workload distribution and service standards.
- Resolving queries and supporting colleagues with complex administration matters.
- Identifying and delivering efficiency improvements
- Building strong relationships with leaders, managers and colleagues across the Trust.
We're Looking for Someone Who:
- Has experience of leading or supervising a team, and enjoys supporting and developing others.
- Is analytical and data driven, with experience of HR and payroll systems and people metrics
- Takes pride in delivering excellent customer service.
- Is highly organised and able to manage competing priorities.
- Has strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy.
- Builds positive relationships and communicates effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Is proactive, solution-focused and always looking for ways to improve.
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Why Join Discovery Trust?
Our values of Belonging, Ambition and Equity are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to creating a culture where colleagues feel valued, supported and empowered to succeed. These values underpin the Trust's approach to supporting colleagues and schools. In return, you'll join a supportive People Team where your contribution will have a direct impact on the experience of colleagues across our schools and central services.
Join Our Team
If you're passionate about people, enjoy leading others and take pride in delivering an outstanding service, we'd love to hear from you.
Help us ensure every school has the support they need, every colleague has a positive experience, and every process runs smoothly.
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