People Advisor

We’re looking for a proactive and collaborative People Operations Advisor to join us on a 12-month fixed-term contract to cover maternity leave. This role plays an important part in shaping the day-to-day experience of colleagues across the University.

Working closely with the People Operations Team Leader, you’ll coordinate activity within the team to ensure the smooth, high-quality delivery of our employee lifecycle processes.

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy supporting others, and care about delivering an exceptional colleague experience, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a senior member of the People Operations delivery team, you will:

• Coordinate daily workflow to support timely and accurate service delivery.
• Advise and support colleagues, sharing your expertise to build capability across the team.
• Monitor service quality, identifying and resolving issues early.
• Help triage and resolve more complex cases in collaboration with team members.
• Support system and process improvements, including testing new functionality and providing feedback to the Change & Continuous Improvement team.
• Review and streamline processes, ensuring they make best use of system functionality and promote an online-first approach.
• Create and maintain process guides, supporting clarity and consistency across the People Team.
• Contribute to People Team and University working groups, offering specialist insight.
• Deputise for the People Operations Team Leader and play an active role in developing colleagues.
• Champion our University values and ensure information is managed in line with legislation and policy.

What We’re Looking For

We’d love to hear from you if you can bring:

• Strong experience in HR or People Operations within a complex organisation.
• Solid knowledge of employee lifecycle processes and operational HR practice.
• Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage workload and meet deadlines
• A continuous-improvement mindset and confidence using HR systems.
• Great communication and coaching skills, with the ability to support and develop colleagues.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach.

Why Join Us?

At Edinburgh Napier, our people are at the heart of everything we do. You’ll join a supportive, values-led team committed to delivering a high-quality service and continuously improving how we work.

We offer:

• A flexible, hybrid, working approach.
• Generous annual leave and pension contributions.
• Training and development opportunities.
• A welcoming and inclusive work environment.

Salary: £ 31,236 - £ 37,694 per annum calculated pro-rata.

Sector-leading annual leave and pension benefits (41 days annual leave, generous pension scheme with Employer contribution of 17.6%).

Additional Information:

• Interviews: 17th March 2026.
• Face-to-face interviews at Sighthill.

This vacancy may close earlier if a sufficient number of applications are received. Early application is therefore strongly advised.

On this occasion, the University will not consider applicants requiring sponsorship or visa support for this role. International applicants will therefore only be able to take up this role if they can demonstrate an alternative right to work in the UK.