HR Advisor FTC (until March 2027)

Who we are

Culture Craft is the people and culture partner for growing businesses. We build and run the research-backed people systems behind high-performing teams, and we lead the complex, high-stakes work that businesses can’t do alone. We work as embedded partners, operating as a genuine extension of our clients’ teams, and we’re known for delivering high-impact outcomes with precision and pace.

We’re award-winning and growing fast. That growth is the backdrop to this role: you’d be joining at a point where there’s real room to shape things and to grow with us.

The opportunity

There are two parts to this work.

1. The immediate work is at the sharp end of organisational change: supporting a large-scale redundancy and collective consultation programme, running and supporting consultation meetings, coaching managers through the process, and keeping everything consistent, fair and legally sound at volume.

2. The wider opportunity is Culture Craft itself. We’re in a growth phase, and outside this project there’s significant scope to contribute, complex employee relations work, helping build and improve the people systems our clients run on, and getting involved in how we deliver and grow.

For the right person, this is far more than a project. It’s a way in.

The contract starts as fixed-term, but based on our current trajectory we expect this to open up further opportunity beyond it. We’d much rather keep brilliant people than let them go.

What you’ll do

• Support individual consultation meetings within a redundancy programme
• Coach, brief and train line managers as their HR expert, so the approach stays consistent, confident and compliant
• Manage complex employee relations issues with sound, pragmatic judgement
• Keep high-volume processes accurate, fair and well documented
• Contribute to wider advisory and people-system work across our clients as we grow
• Own your outcomes end to end, managing your own work and flagging early, bringing solutions, not just problems

This role is NOT for everyone

We say the thing – because it saves everyone’s time.

We are a startup. This is not a role where you’ll be told exactly what to do and chased up on. There’s isn’t a layer of management to hold your hand through the day. We’re a growing business, which means some things aren’t fully built yet and you’ll help build them. The pace is quick and the work is weighty. You’ll be in difficult rooms, handling sensitive situations, with real responsibility from day one.

If you want a predictable, fully-structured role where someone else owns the outcome, we will probably frustrate each other. If that honesty makes you more interested rather than less, keep reading.

What you’ll bring (all essential)

• CIPD Level 5 (or above)
• Redundancy and consultation experience, hands-on, including coaching, briefing and training managers through the process
• Demonstrable handling of complex employee relations casework, handled with confidence and good judgement
• Up-to-date, practical UK employment law knowledge, in particular around consultation, ERA change incl Union changes, and equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
• Strong executive functioning, you organise yourself, hold multiple threads, prioritise well under pressure and don’t drop things
• Systemic thinking, you see how the parts connect, spot the knock-on effects, and work the whole problem with the the team, rather than the symptom in front of you
• A doer and a strategist, equally comfortable getting into the detail and stepping back to see the bigger picture
• Excellent communication, clear, credible and calm, including in hard conversations
• The ability to manage upwards and own outcomes, working independently without close supervision

A significant advantage

• Experience in a client-facing consulting or advisory role, working across different organisations rather than a single in-house team

The practicalities

• Contract: There are 2-month and 3-month fixed-term contracts available, full-time (40 hours/week). Based on our current trajectory, we expect this to create further opportunity beyond the initial term.
• Location: remote, with some time together in person in Leeds, so ideally you’re within reach of West Yorkshire.
• Start: mid-December, with onboarding ahead of the busier period in the new year.