People Projects Coordinator

Location: Home-based with occasional travel to Bradford
Contract: 12-month fixed-term, part-time (30 hours per week)
Salary: £40,000 FTE (£32,000 pro rata)

Help turn strategy into delivery.

At Anchor, we're transforming how we support colleagues and deliver people services. As we continue to modernise our processes, strengthen governance and deliver key people initiatives, we're looking for an organised and proactive project professional to help turn plans into action.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys bringing structure to complexity, coordinating multiple priorities and ensuring projects, governance activity and strategic commitments stay on track.

About the Role

This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity created to support delivery of our current Culture & People Plan as we transition to a new Organisational Development Strategy.

You'll play a key role in coordinating projects, tracking progress, supporting governance activity and ensuring our strategic priorities are delivered during an important period of change and transformation.

This role is offered on a 0.8 basis (30 hours per week). We're open to a range of working patterns, whether that's across four days, shorter hours across five days or another arrangement that works for both you and the role. We're interested in finding the right person, not prescribing how the hours need to be worked.

As the People & Culture function continues to evolve, we're looking for an organised and proactive project professional who can bring structure, pace and coordination to a varied portfolio of work. You'll work across the People & Culture Directorate, helping turn plans into action and ensuring projects, governance activity and strategic priorities are delivered effectively.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll provide project, planning and coordination support across a range of People & Culture activity, including:

• Supporting the delivery of people projects and programmes.
• Maintaining project plans, action trackers and risk logs.
• Coordinating governance forums, meetings and reporting.
• Supporting directorate planning cycles and strategic priorities.
• Maintaining key documentation, reporting and governance records.
• Working with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure projects remain on track and deliver successful outcomes.
• Providing visibility of progress, risks, dependencies and key milestones.
• Supporting the successful delivery of priorities within the Culture & People Plan and wider Organisational Development agenda.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for someone who brings:

• Experience working within a People, HR, OD or similar business function.
• Strong project coordination and organisational skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience using recognised project management approaches.
• Strong planning, reporting and administration capability.
• Experience of process improvement and process mapping activities.
• The ability to work independently whilst managing multiple priorities.
• A project management qualification such as Prince2 Foundation, APM or AgilePM.

Why Join Anchor?

This is a role where you'll work across a broad range of strategic initiatives, support senior leaders and help shape how People & Culture delivers services in the future.

If you enjoy organisation, coordination, governance and making things happen, we'd love to hear from you.

Important information

Proof of the right to work in the UK will be required from the successful candidate in accordance with UK Home Office requirements before any offer of employment can be confirmed.

Where permission to work in the UK is required, applicants will need to hold and maintain the appropriate immigration status or visa for the duration of their employment.

This role may be offered to existing Anchor colleagues as either a secondment or a fixed-term contract, depending on individual circumstances. External candidates will be offered the role on a fixed-term contract basis.

Anchor – a great place to work

Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit providers of care and housing for older people. Our heartfelt ambition is to transform housing and care so everyone can have a home where they love living in later life.

We’re not-for-profit which means every penny we make or save is invested in the people who live with us, the places they live and the people who work here. That means a better standard of care and customer service, better wages, more investment in training and development and improved facilities.

Our values

Every one of us can make a difference to our residents and play a part in shaping homes and services around their needs.

Our Anchor values of being Accountable, Respectful, Courageous and Honest apply to us all, whether you manage colleagues as part of your role or not.

Displaying our values can influence those around us to do the same. We can all be leaders at Anchor and should all be driven by the same customer ethos.  Our Anchor Leadership Framework helps align these values with the skills and behaviours we demonstrate.

A rewarding environment

From health and happiness to finance and your career, we’ll give you all the support you need.

Health & happiness

• Gym, fitness and wellbeing discounts
• Mental health support
• Flexible working options
• Access to online GP appointments

Finance

• Pension plan – contribute between 4% and 8% and we’ll match it or better
• Quick and easy pension transfer service
• Savings and financial advice, loans, free life assurance
• Discounts on shopping, holidays, phones, technology and more
• Free Blue Light Card

Career

• Ongoing personal and professional development programme
• Leadership Pathways online learning resources
• Career progression and promotion opportunities

To see our full range of benefits, check out our dedicated being well website Please follow the link or copy and paste https://anchorbeingwell.co.uk/ into your browser 

Celebrating diversity, celebrating you

Anchor is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We aim to celebrate diversity and inclusion in all that we do, as we know that the more diverse our colleagues are, the better care and support we can give to our residents and each other.  

We are proud to have an LGBT+ group for our residents, and also Disability, LGBT+ and race and ethnicity colleague networks. These work to celebrate diversity, address concerns, review policy and practice and empower their members.  We also have an Inclusive Ambassador network to allow all colleagues to be part of promoting diversity and to be an ally to others.

We are a Gold Standard Inclusive Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, and a signatory to the Care Leaver Covenant, HouseProud Pledge and Age Friendly Employer Pledge schemes.