Key points
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent contract
Working Pattern: Monday to Friday (with flexible start/finish times between 8am–10am and 5pm–7pm)
Hours: 40 hours per week
Overview
Zaha Hadid Architects is looking for a People & Talent Advisor (HR Advisor) to join our team on a permanent contract.
Working as part of a collaborative team of 10, this role provides generalist HR support to a defined business unit within ZHA. You will be responsible for delivering high-quality operational and advisory support across the full employee lifecycle, managing immigration and payroll processes, supporting employee relations, and line managing a People & Talent Coordinator.
This is an ideal opportunity for someone with strong HR generalist experience who thrives in a creative, fast-paced environment and enjoys a balance of hands-on operations and project work.
Main responsibilities
Immigration and International Transfers
- Coordinate and manage visa applications, including new sponsorships and extensions.
- Liaise with immigration solicitors to ensure legal compliance.
- Advise managers and employees on visa requirements, processes, and timelines.
- Manage internal international transfers, secondments, and relocations.
Payroll
- Oversee monthly payroll for the designated business unit, in collaboration with the People & Talent Coordinator.
- Input all necessary changes and documents, and liaise closely with the Accounts team to ensure accuracy.
Talent Management / Employee Relations
- Provide advice on HR policies and processes, including flexible working, leave entitlements, TOIL, and performance management.
- Manage HR procedures from end-to-end such as probation periods, family leave, and absence management.
- Advise managers and support on employee relations cases, including PIPs, contract changes, and terminations.
People & Talent Operations
- Ensure all P&T admin processes are delivered accurately and on time for the relevant business units.
- Respond to queries from the People & Talent inbox and act as a point of contact for employees.
- Monitor absence reporting and follow up as needed.
- Provide advice on benefits and liaise with external providers.
- Analyse employee data to inform business decisions and HR strategy.
- Contribute to key HR projects, including HRIS improvements, appraisals, pay review and promotions.
- Support general administrative tasks, including leading exit interviews and collating feedback.
- Produce ad hoc reporting and respond to external data requests (e.g. AJ100, ONS).
Line Management
- Line manage and mentor the People & Talent Coordinator.
- Provide advice and guidance on administrative best practices.
- Oversee the People & Talent inbox and ensure all tasks are delivered to a high standard and on time.
Project Work
- Support the People & Talent Management team on the review and development of policies.
- Lead or contribute to P&T projects as required.
About us
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) redefined architecture for the 21st century with a repertoire of projects that have captured imaginations across the globe. Creating buildings uniquely tailored to the communities they serve, ZHA has been awarded the highest honours from professional and academic institutions worldwide. Founded by Zaha Hadid in 1979, ZHA is one of the world’s most consistently inventive architectural studios—and has been for four decades. These decades of pioneering research are inscribed within our architecture to become more spatially inventive, more structurally efficient, more technologically advanced, and more environmentally considerate with every new design. Combining innovative architectural solutions with ecologically sound materials and sustainable construction practices, we do not look at the disparate parts, but work to understand them as a whole to meet the aspirations of each new generation. As an employee-owned business, we reinvest all profits back into our people and our company; continually enhancing our multidisciplinary research to address the challenges impacting communities around the world.
