People are at the heart of everything we do. We are looking for an experienced HR Administrator to join our HR team who shares that belief. As our new HR Administrator, you will be the friendly, organised, and detail focused backbone of our HR and Recruitment operations.

You will provide a full range of transactional Human Resources (HR) administrative tasks to support the functioning of the People Team. Main tasks include recruitment and selection, payroll and contractual administration and data management.

The role sits within the People and Strategy Directorate, working alongside our Learning and Organisational Development, Strategy and Volunteering colleagues.

This is a temporary post for approximately 12 months to cover a period of Maternity Leave.

Role Overview

As an HR Administrator, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our organisational success. Working as part of a friendly team, you'll provide essential support to our colleagues across CHAS. Your responsibilities will include:

Fostering a positive work environment that values diversity and inclusion
Managing HR processes to ensure seamless operations and compliance
Providing support to employees, helping to create an environment where they can thrive
Managing a busy HR inbox, dealing with a variety of queries, including access requests, management information, payroll queries, contractual changes and reporting/compliance requirements.
Delivering a compliant and positive pre-boarding experience, ensuring new starts feel supported and well-informed from the moment they accept their offer
Work with our HR Coordinator to provide Payroll Support: Repackage and prepare HR data for submission to our payroll provider, ensuring deadlines and data quality standards are met.
Maintain and update our HR Information System (HRIS), ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
Generate regular and ad-hoc reports from the HRIS to support decision-making and compliance.
Collaborating with our wider team to develop and implement initiatives that align with our organisational purpose

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have skill and experience in the following areas:

Demonstrable knowledge of HR and/or Recruitment administrative processes and procedures
Systems experience including HRIS and/or ATS.
Demonstrable working knowledge of Microsoft Office software, specifically Outlook, Word, Excel and SharePoint
Advanced keyboard skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to interact with people at all levels
Highly developed planning and organisational skills
Ability to prioritise and manage own workload and work on own initiative
A calm, logical and methodical approach, often working under pressure to tight deadlines
Excellent degree of accuracy and attention to detail
Good time management skills

About CHAS

At CHAS, we support families during the toughest of times. Our ambition is to reach every family in Scotland who is living with the heart-breaking prognosis that their child is dying and offer them our care and support to empower them to make the most of the short time they have together. As an HR Administrator, you will be instrumental in achieving this vision by providing valuable HR and recruitment administrative support and guidance to employees throughout their employment with CHAS.

We offer

Flexible Working: our team works flexibly and in a hybrid manner with time split between at home and onsite in our various locations. CHAS offers flexible and family friendly working. and are happy to discuss working arrangements that work for you
Development Opportunities: exposure to a wide variety of HR and recruitment business as usual activities as well as projects, with regular opportunities to engage in continuous structured internal and external learning.
Professional Growth: Work with industry leaders in a high-performing team where you will be encouraged and supported to excel and develop your skills.
Comprehensive Benefits: Including generous annual leave policy (35 days inclusive of public holidays, rising to 40 days after 5yrs service) and pension, incremental salary progression, access to Blue Light discounts, and health and wellbeing support.

Further Information and How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we would love you to apply!

This is part time role, 30 hours per week. Ideally these hours would be split across 4 or 5 days however we are happy to consider various working arrangements.

Base location can be Edinburgh, Stepps, Rachel House in Kinross or Robin House in Balloch. Flexible and hybrid working.

Depending on the agreed work location for this role, this post will be subject to either a Disclosure Scotland Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) or Level 1 Disclosure check.

Provisional interview date of week commencing 22 June 2026.

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