HR Advisor - 12 Month FTC (Mat Cover)

Who Are We

Founded in 1882, Tottenham Hotspur is an iconic English football club, playing in the Premier League and Women’s Super League. From North London to the world, our fanbase spans continents, cultures, and generations. Spurs is a club that’s always dared to push boundaries, breaking new ground and rewriting history.

We offer world-class facilities: In 2019, we opened our state-of-the-art Stadium, a £1 billion landmark that’s the beating heart of North Tottenham’s transformation. More than just a football ground, it’s an engine of change — creating 4,000 jobs and injecting £300 million into the local economy every year.

We’re at our brightest when we’re all together. Our Club, our teams, our community.

There is only one Hotspur. Tottenham Hotspur.

Role Purpose

The HR Advisor (Maternity 12 month FTC) - Stadium is responsible for strategically partnering with key stakeholders across Stadium Ops to drive performance from a people perspective. Key to this role is providing day to day HR assistance across the employee life cycle as well as departmental projects, ensuring legal compliance across employee relations, and successfully managing the HR/DEI Administrator.

Key Responsibilities

HR Support:

• Provide HR generalist support to all employees at the Club ensuring timely processing of all transactional items.
• Ensure that as a Club we are fully up to date with all paperwork, processes, and compliance.
• Provide day to day HR assistance for the employee life cycle as well as departmental projects.
• Compile data reports, to include monthly payroll changes, staff lists and other analytics necessary for business decisions and/or auditing purposes.
• Contribute to team focus by inputting ideas across all HR processes.
• Review your areas payroll on a monthly basis.
• Act as a super user for the HR system, maintaining accurate employee records at all times.
• Manage the lifecycle of HR processes across a varied workforce including casual workers, consultants, and volunteers.

Case Management:

• Support managers with all ER cases, always ensuring fairness and consistency in accordance with best practice.
• Provide ongoing briefing and coaching for managers on ER topics.
• Continuously monitor and review HR policies and procedures and implement changes where necessary.

Collaborating with Internal Teams:

• Work closely and collaboratively with wider People Team on key projects.
• Effectively partner with client group – Stadium Operations.
• Contribute to brainstorming sessions, providing fresh and innovative ideas.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Experience managing a team member and driving performance.
• CIPD Level 3 or higher.
• Competent with Microsoft Excel and creating reports from raw data sources.
• Knowledge of HR systems (ITrent).
• Strong communication skills.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience with supporting stakeholders on varied HR queries.
• Knowledge of Right to work, DBS and PEPs & Sanction employment requirements.
• Previous experience working with different employment contracts mainly – Casual work force.
• Handing of employee relations (disciplinaries, grievance processes).

Safeguarding & Recruitment Statement

Safeguarding is fundamental to the success in all that we do. The Club follows a Safer Recruitment process for all roles. Successful candidates are to be reminded they would be subject to proportionate background, DBS and reference checks as required.

We welcome applications from anyone regardless of age, disability, gender, race, or ethnic and national origins, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.

Reasonable Adjustments

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process and will make reasonable adjustments at any stage of the application or interview process to support candidates with disabilities or specific needs. Please let us know if you require any adjustments so that we can ensure you have a fair and positive experience.

Please note that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of applications or due to business needs, so early applications are encouraged.

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