HR Officer

Salary: £26,871 - £28,515 per annum*, plus benefits
Hours: 35 hours p/w
Duration: 4-month fixed term contract (Jan 2025– early May 2025)
Location: Edinburgh

Are you a proactive HR professional with a passion for hiring the right people?

Then, join Our Team as an HR Officer – Be Part of the 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival!

(*pro rata per term of contract)

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Each year Edinburgh Science delivers one of Europe’s largest science festivals.  We also deliver year-round educational programs and outreach initiatives and a variety of international programming activities and projects that spark curiosity and engage our audiences with science, technology, and sustainability.

 

About the role:

The HR Officer will play a key role in supporting all HR functions with particular focus on ensuring attraction and recruitment of our seasonal staff for our 2025 Edinburgh Science Festival. 

This role will give you a chance to contribute to the success of our world renowned Science Festival and help further your HR career providing you with valuable experience in recruitment and HR operations, within a supportive team setting.

 

As our HR Officer, you will:

  • Lead recruitment campaigns to attract, select and onboard our seasonal team for the 2025 Festival and any core team positions.
  • Manage the employee lifecycle and HR operations, including all onboarding activities, payroll support, and HR system support.
  • Provide clear guidance to staff and managers on HR related matters.

About you:

  • Proven experience in an HR role with a focus on recruitment and selection.
  • Ideally CIPD Level 3 qualified or above, or equivalent experience.
  • Strong organisational skills, attention to detail, and a passion for working with people.
  • A reliable, positive and flexible working manner is a must
  • Experience in a cultural, charity, or event-based setting is a plus!

What We Offer

  • A chance to shape the team behind one of the world’s most exciting science festivals.
  • Competitive salary and some hybrid work flexibility.
  • A supportive, values-driven workplace committed to innovation, learning, and environmental sustainability.

How to apply:

Click the link below to visit our dedicated careers portal to complete our brief online application. You will be asked to upload your current Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter detailing your key skills, competencies, and relevant experience. Please also include two references.

 

Please apply early to register your interest.  We reserve the right to close applications early if sufficient suitable applications received.

 

For an informal discussion, or if you have any queries about the role, please contact Cindy Cunningham, Head of HR at cindy.cunningham@scifest.co.uk  

 

The closing date for applications is: Monday 6 January 2025 at 11:59PM     

Interviews will be held: Thursday 9 January 2025

 

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this. 

 

View the full job description https://bit.ly/3ZH55T8

 

Find out more about our work here https://www.edinburghscience.co.uk/

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.

 

 

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    Hours: Full Time
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    Start: 3 February, 2025
    Work Location: Edinburgh Science offices, warehouses, Festival venues.

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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.