HR Systems Manager
The Co Operative Academies Trust, Manchester, M60 0AG4 days remaining to apply
Start date details
As soon as possible
Closing date
18 August 2025 at 9am
Date listed
12 August 2025
Job details
Job role
- Administration, HR, data and finance
Visa sponsorship
- Skilled Worker visas can be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time: Monday - Friday 37 hours
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- Between £45,718 - £50,788
Pay scale
- NJC36-41
What skills and experience we're looking for
Qualifications
● Project management Experience
● Project management
● Systems management
● working in a large organisation
Skills, Ability, Knowledge
● Systems mindset
● Design approach to problem solving
● Customer centric
● Ability to communicate to a wide range ofaudiences
● HR knowledge
Personal Qualities
● ability to persuade and influence stakeholders atall levels
● All our colleagues are expected to demonstrate acommitment to co-operative values andprinciples and the Ways of Being Co-op.
Must include qualities relating to the safeguarding ofchildren;
● Motivation to work with children
● Ability to form and maintain appropriaterelationships and personal boundaries withchildren.
● Emotional resilience in dealing with challengingbehaviour.
● Attitudes to use of authority and maintainingdiscipline.
What the school offers its staff
We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:
Benefits include:
- You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
- Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
- Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more
- Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
- Co-op Funeralcare benefit
- Season ticket and rental deposit loans
And More!
For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk
The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
Co-op Academies Trust as an aware employer is committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults as its number one priority. This commitment to robust recruitment, selection and induction procedures extends to organisations and services linked to the Trust on its behalf. This post is subject to an enhanced DBS check. We value variety and individual differences, and aim to create a culture, environment and practices at all levels which encompass acceptance, respect and inclusion. All our colleagues are expected to demonstrate a commitment to co-operative values and principles.
Applying for the job
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About The Co Operative Academies Trust
- Type
- Multi-academy trust
- Email address
- nicola.webb@coopacademies.co.uk
The Role
Join us as our HR Systems Manager, leading work across the 38 schools and central team of the Trust, to make best use of our systems and platforms to drive HR outcomes. You will lead on our HR and payroll platform, SAM people, to ensure that we are maximising technology and operating efficiently and effectively. With a flair for innovation, you will suggest and drive forward new ways of working, bringing proven skills to automate work wherever possible and adopt new technology which improves our colleagues' experience. You will provide data and reports from systems on workforce data.
**No agencies unless by prior agreement.
Why us?
Co-op Academies Trust is a place where you are part of something bigger, through a leading education and opportunities to serve our community, we are working together to make a better world.
From ages 3-19 Co-op Academies Trust supports students in Primary, Secondary and Special schools across the North of England, giving children the skills and experiences they need to succeed, no matter where they come from.
What makes our Trust unique is that we are sponsored by the Co-op Group. That close relationship means that we benefit from all the business expertise that has seen the Co-op grow to one of the most respected, successful businesses in the country.
Everyone in the Trust honours our fundamental commitment to the Ways of Being Co-op. They are our DNA; they represent our culture and reflect the rationale behind our decision-making. No matter what we do, they are how we do it.
Our ways of being are:
Be Yourself, Always
Show You Care
Do What Matters Most
Succeed Together
In 2025, we have 38 academies as part of the Co-op family, across 4 regions.
Our Values
Being part of the Co-operative Group, we are both guided and driven by the Co-op values which are embedded in everything that we do within our Academy - We strive to demonstrate the following ethical values in everything we do - they are our ‘Ways of Being’:
Succeed together
Do what matters most
Be yourself, always
Show you care
So, if you believe in our values, we would love to hear from you!
We offer a wide range of benefits and rewards to recognise the part you play in our success:
Benefits include:
You’ll get being a Co-op member, you’ll get a Co-op colleague discount card. This gives you a 10% discount in our Co-op Food stores.
Co-operative flexible benefits (discounted line rental and broadband package, family care advice and cycle to work scheme)
Discounted gym membership and leisure activities which includes discounts on Merlin Entertainments (Sea Life, Legoland etc), Virgin Experience Days, SuperBreak and many more
Co-operative Credit Union: save directly from your salary and receive a competitive dividend. Borrowers can benefit from very competitive interest rates & terms (in comparison with other high street lenders)
Co-op Funeralcare benefit
Season ticket and rental deposit loans
And More!
For more information about the Co-op Academies Trust, please visit: www.coopacademies.co.uk
The Trust is also committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnerships.
Arranging a visit to The Co Operative Academies Trust
To arrange a visit and increase the chance of a successful application email nicola.webb@coopacademies.co.uk.
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