People & Culture Specialist
Permanent Full Time
Hybrid - 2 days office based (Dublin 2) and 3 days remote.
Excellent opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join a dynamic People & Culture Team based in Dublin. This role offers exposure across a broad range of HR activities, including recruitment, HR operations, employee support, learning & development and engagement projects.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate end-to-end recruitment processes, partnering with hiring managers to support workforce needs and ensure a positive candidate experience
- Manage recruitment platforms and job advertising while ensuring recruitment activity aligns with public sector guidelines and best practice
- Maintain and administer the HR information system, ensuring employee records and workforce data are accurate and up to date
- Support payroll processes in collaboration with external providers and assist with pension administration where required
- Oversee onboarding and offboarding processes, ensuring a structured and positive employee experience
- Act as a key point of contact for general queries from employees and managers, providing guidance on people policies and procedures
- Support performance management, probation processes and employee relations matters where required
- Assist with reporting and workforce data requests for internal and external stakeholders
- Contribute to projects and initiatives including areas such as employee engagement, learning and development and process improvement
- Identify opportunities to strengthen processes and help improve efficiencies
- Coordinate learning and development activities across the organisation, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities
- Support the design, implementation and ongoing management of the Training Needs Analysis (TNA) process
- Work with managers and teams to identify capability gaps and development requirements
- Develop and maintain the organisational annual training plan, tracking delivery, participation and outcomes
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external providers to organise and deliver training programmes and workshops
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of learning initiatives, using feedback and data to inform continuous improvement
- Maintain training records, compliance training requirements and reporting metrics
- Contribute to employee engagement initiatives, recognition programmes and organisational development projects
- Support internal communications, announcements and engagement content
- Partner with teams across the organisation to support workshops, onboarding and culture building activities
- Help promote a positive, inclusive and connected workplace environment
Skills & Qualifications Required:
- Experience working in a public sector or similarly regulated environment.
- Previous experience in a HR generalist or HR operations role
- Strong understanding of HR policies, procedures and governance frameworks
- Experience supporting recruitment and working closely with hiring managers
- Familiarity with HR systems and data management
- Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills
- Interpersonal & Communication Competencies
- Ability to build strong working relationships across all levels of the organisation
- Confident, professional verbal and written communication
- Positive, supportive approach to dealing with HR queries, ensures a high-quality employee experience from onboarding to exit
- Ability to compile HR metrics and respond to data requests, comfortable interpreting trends and identifying insights
- Proactive in identifying gaps or inefficiencies, can propose, test and implement improved processes
- Able to manage multiple tasks in a busy environment, strong planning and time-management capability
- Works with accuracy across documentation, HR records, and reporting
- Self-starter with initiative who takes ownership of tasks and processes, keep projects moving with minimal oversight
