HR Manager
Morgan Sports Law, United Kingdom
Job Description
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a friendly and high caliber boutique sports law firm in a stand alone capacity (with support from a HR Consultant where needed), helping hone the development and execution of our people and culture strategy.
This is a part-time role of 0.6 FTE / 22.5 hours pw which can be assigned across the week to suit your availability. Ideally you will be located within a reasonable commuting distance from our London office however a good level of remote working is possible with this role.
Role priorities include overseeing Internship, Paralegal and Trainee annual selection programmes; and managing the search, offer, visa and onboarding processes for all hires. You'll be the go-to friendly face to support employees through their employment journey. You will also have the opportunity to lead on HR projects and develop efficiencies in people operations including owning staff policy and process implementation; overseeing people development and performance management processes; and implementing initiatives to ensure we retain a unified culture and engaged workforce.
The Firm
Morgan Sports Law is a specialist sports arbitration and litigation firm representing our clients in a variety of sport resolution forums globally. We are one of the world’s pre-eminent law firm of choice for athletes, players, agents, teams and defendants in issues such as anti-doping disputes, anti-corruption and governance, reputation protection matters, sports and commercial disputes, and arbitration.
We are an international Practice with just under 25 team members based predominantly in the UK, with small offices in Switzerland and the US.
In addition, this role will also support our subsidiary E-sports gaming agency - DotX Talent, with 5 remote working employees currently.
Find out more about us: www.morgansl.com and www.dotxtalent.com
Requirements
1. Talent Acquisition amp; Recruitment:
- Execute the firm's talent acquisition strategy.
- Manage all vacancy postings and sourcing channels.
- Build talent pipelines, headhunt where necessary and ensure positive candidate experiences.
- Oversee end-to-end hiring campaigns, screen and preliminary interview candidates.
- Own and develop the small-scale internship and graduate programme - including building relationships with relevant partner institutions, representing the firm at law fairs and helping us to grow with impressive talent from the very best universities.
- Handle employment offers and contracting.
- Build the employer brand for Morgan Sports Law creating great content and supporting with a social media strategy.
2. Onboarding:
- Oversee detailed pre-employment checks.
- Support Visa application processes where necessary.
- Deliver new staff inductions.
- Own the probation management process and ensure a positive experience for all new recruits.
3. Training amp; Development:
- Manage a small-scale internship and trainee program, ensuring appropriate supervision, feedback and development is offered and our compliance with SRA regulations.
- Promote relevant professional development and mandatory legal training.
- Mange the performance review process (including 360 feedback gathering) and encourage and coach supervisors to deliver effective feedback have quality career discussions.
4. Policy amp; Compliance:
- Promote and review company policies, procedures, and contracts, ensuring alignment with employment law and legislation.
- Collaborate with the Practice Manager on employee experience and relations issues including grievances, complaints, disciplinary processes, and mediation (you'll be pleased to know the latter is infrequent in this high performing, engaged organisation!).
- Ensure the firm's compliance with workplace health amp; safety and employment legislation.
5. General HR Management:
- Administer and promote employee benefits including payroll (with assistance from Finance), pension, insurance, bonus structures, and paid time-offs. This is in relation to the UK and overseas office locations.
- Contribute to ad hoc HR projects as directed by the Practice Manager, such as performance management, HR data management, reward bench-marking, engagement, and internal communication.
- Take ownership of issues relating to employee experience and employee relations.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee records.
- Administer and produce contracts, official documents, and other HR-related paperwork.
- Administer and maximise use of firm HR tools and software such as Hibob HR Platform, Workable ATS and Acces