People Administrator

People Administrator

Job Type

Support

Job Category

Various

Employment Basis

Established (salaried)

Location

John Ruskin College - Croydon, East Surrey College - Redhill

Salary Range

£29,373.76 per annum - pro rated to £23,498.40

Closing Date

01/06/2026

Documents

• Introduction from the Principal.pdf
  (PDF, 156.25kb)
• OSC Corporation Competency Framework 2019.pdf
  (PDF, 472.18kb)
• People Administrator JD & PS.pdf
  (PDF, 198.29kb)

People Administrator

College location:East Surrey College (Redhill) and John Ruskin College (Selsdon)

Salary: £29,373.76 per annum - pro rated to £23,498.40

Hours: 29.6 hours a week (8:45 am - 5 pm ideally across 5 days but can be flexible)

Ready to kick-start or grow your HR career? Join our dynamic College Group HR team and play a key role in delivering a professional, efficient, and people-focused service.

We are seeking a proactive and highly organisedAdministrator to support our College Group People team. This is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a professional, efficient, and people-focused HR service.

Reporting to the People Partner, you will support key HR processes including onboarding, maintaining accurate employee records, processing payroll changes, and responding to HR queries. You will play an important role in ensuring a smooth and positive experience for staff across the College. This is a varied role within a supportive team, offering a great opportunity to develop your HR career and make a real impact.

The successful candidate must have:

• Educated to A-Level standard (or other Level 3 equivalent)
• Significant Administration experience with a medium/large sized team
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills, in particular at least Intermediate in Excel
• CIPD Level 3 is desirable
• Maths & English GCSE / Level 2 equivalent

If this sounds like you and you will enjoy working in a forward thinking, friendly, fast paced, changing environment with state of the art facilities, we would love to hear from you. In return, we offer a competitive salary, as well as staff benefits such a choice of two excellent pension schemes, a brilliant holiday package, free onsite parking and access to our fully equipped gym along with discounted in house Spa and Salon treatments.

*Applications will however be shortlisted on a rolling basis and we reserve the right to interview and appoint before this closing date. We therefore encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment. As much as we would love to respond to all applicants, due to the sheer volume of applications we receive we are unable to respond to all unsuccessful candidates.

Please refer to the attached Job Description, Person Specification and Competency Framework and apply using the button below.

Orbital South Colleges Group are committed to Equal Opportunities, encouraging applications from all sectors of the community to reflect our diverse student population. We are also committed to PREVENT and Safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Both College Campus’ are smoke-free zones.

As part of our pre-employment checks, successful candidates will be required to complete an enhanced DBS, references will be taken and evidence of all qualifications and awards will also be required before commencement of employment. Failure to do so may lead to offers being withdrawn.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the UK as we do not sponsor work permits, and work permits from other organisations are unacceptable as proof of right to work in the UK.