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Business Support and Office Coordinator – Part-time

Part-time – 1 day office-based per week (Tuesday), with flexibility to work additional hours as required

At People Business, we’re a friendly, growing HR consultancy supporting organisations across a wide range of sectors. As our business continues to grow, we’re looking for someone who enjoys variety, thrives on being organised and takes pride in helping a business run efficiently.

The Role

This is a new role that combines office management with consultant and project support. You’ll be responsible for keeping our office running smoothly while providing high-quality administrative support to our consultants and leadership team. You’ll become the person we rely on to make things happen.

The role is contracted for one day per week (Tuesday), when most of the team is in the office, with the opportunity to work additional hours during busier periods, to provide holiday cover and as the role develops. The successful candidate must have the right to work in the UK.

Main Responsibilities

Office management

  • Acting as the first point of contact for office maintenance issues
  • Liaising with our landlord and contractors regarding repairs and maintenance
  • Coordinating office cleaning and twice-yearly garden maintenance
  • Keeping the office tidy, welcoming and well presented
  • Looking after office plants
  • Ordering stationery, office supplies and kitchen essentials
  • Monitoring printer consumables and arranging replacements
  • Maintaining meeting rooms and communal areas
  • Managing office keys and general office administration
  • Obtaining quotations for routine office requirements
  • Keeping our Visual Wins and Happiness noticeboards up to date.

Consultant and project support

You’ll provide valuable support to our consultants and leadership team across a range of client and internal projects, including:

  • Assisting with the preparation and formatting of client proposals and learning materials using PowerPoint
  • Supporting the administration and scheduling of executive coaching programmes
  • Arranging client meetings, workshops and project activities
  • Booking venues, accommodation and travel
  • Preparing documentation and materials for key internal meetings
  • Providing administrative support and holiday cover for colleagues during busy periods
  • Supporting improvements to internal systems, processes and document management
  • Researching venues, suppliers and other business requirements
  • Organising lunches, refreshments, gifts and team events
  • Helping with AI and business improvement projects as new opportunities arise.

General administration

  • Maintaining contact lists
  • Processing employee expenses
  • Maintaining subscription and renewal schedules
  • Archiving documentation
  • Creating, issuing and following up work orders
  • Providing additional administrative support wherever needed.

About you

You’ll enjoy this role if you:

  • Love being organised and keeping on top of lots of different tasks
  • Enjoy supporting others and helping a busy team succeed
  • Can work independently and use your initiative
  • Are confident dealing with senior stakeholders, suppliers and clients
  • Have excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
  • Are comfortable juggling changing priorities
  • Enjoy learning new skills and improving the way things are done
  • Have strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint
  • Have an interest in technology and AI, or are keen to learn.

This role would particularly suit someone with previous office management, executive assistant, project support or virtual assistant experience who is looking for a varied role with the security of regular hours while remaining part of a professional, friendly team.

What we offer

  • A varied role where no two weeks are the same
  • The opportunity to shape a brand-new position
  • A friendly, supportive and collaborative team
  • Flexibility to increase your hours during busier periods and provide holiday cover
  • The opportunity to contribute to projects that make a real difference to our business
  • A role where your ideas and initiative will be genuinely valued.

If you’re looking for a role where you can make a real impact, enjoy variety and become an integral part of a growing consultancy, we’d love to hear from you.

Please apply to julie.ware@peoplebusiness.co.uk with your CV and a covering letter outlining your relevant experience, availability, and how this role would fit alongside your existing commitments.

Please see our recruitment privacy policy here.

Junior Business Psychologist (Assessment) – Part-time

The Role

To support People Business consultants in delivering robust, insight rich assessment services – including management due diligence (MDD) and Hogan based assessments – and to help build out our AI enabled assessment tools, processes and report templates.

This role offers a rare opportunity for an Occupational/Organisational Psychology MSc student to gain practical, supervised experience in psychometrics, executive assessment and wider people consultancy work.

Main Responsibilities

Assessment support

  • Assist consultants with planning, logistics and preparation for assessment and interview sessions (virtual and in person).
  • Observe and support structured interviews, taking high quality notes and helping capture behavioural evidence linked to role requirements.
  • Contribute to individual and team assessment reports, drafting sections that integrate interview data, Hogan profiles and business context under supervision.

Hogan and psychometrics

  • Administer Hogan and other psychometric tools in line with professional and ethical standards.
  • Help interpret Hogan profiles against client role profiles, competency frameworks and People Business models, guided by senior consultants.
  • Maintain organised records of assessments, outputs and templates in line with data protection requirements.

AI enabled assessment

  • Use AI tools to support synthesis of assessment data (e.g. summarising notes, outlining reports, highlighting patterns in profiles), while applying appropriate critical judgement.
  • Provide feedback and ideas to help us further enhance our AI supported assessment offering and client deliverables.

Research and project support

  • Conduct desk research to support MDD and other people projects (e.g. role analysis, sector or organisational context, leadership capability frameworks).
  • Help maintain and refine libraries of behavioural indicators, interview questions and assessment templates.
  • Provide ad hoc support to wider People Business projects in HR, leadership and talent development as needed.

Quality, ethics and professionalism

  • Work in line with BPS and People Business standards on fairness, diversity, ethics and confidentiality.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement of assessment processes, ensuring our work remains rigorous, practical and client friendly.

Candidate profile

Essential

  • Currently studying (or due to start) an MSc in Occupational/Organisational Psychology or closely related discipline, ideally BPS accredited.
  • Strong interest in assessment, psychometrics and leadership/OD, evidenced through modules, projects or dissertation focus.
  • Comfortable working with data – psychometric outputs, interview notes, AI generated summaries – and turning it into clear, structured insight.
  • Excellent written communication skills; able to write concise, well reasoned material suitable for client reports.
  • High attention to detail, strong professional integrity, and respect for confidentiality.
  • Organised and reliable, able to manage part time work alongside academic study.

Desirable

  • Exposure to Hogan or other personality assessments (e.g. through study, previous roles or certification).
  • Familiarity with AI tools for drafting, summarising or analysis and an interest in how AI can enhance professional practice.
  • Interest in PE backed businesses, leadership assessment and talent due diligence.

What we offer

  • Supervised, structured experience aligned with occupational psychology practice (assessment, selection, development).
  • Hands-on exposure to Hogan tools and modern AI enabled assessment workflows.
  • Opportunity to contribute to the development of our assessment proposition and IP.
  • Variety of work across MDD, leadership and talent projects with a boutique, experienced consulting team.peoplebusiness.co+1
  • Supportive environment with opportunities to learn from senior consultants, coaches and HR/OD specialists.

Pay and working arrangements

  • Part time role: typically 2 days per week, with flexibility around exam periods and major academic deadlines.
  • Pay: competitive part-time salary in line with Surrey intern and junior psychologist roles. Exact figure will depend on experience and hours.
  • Hybrid working: mix of remote work and time in the People Business office / client sites as required.

How to apply

Please send:

  • Your CV (max 2 pages).
  • A short cover note explaining:
    • Why you are interested in occupational/business psychology and assessment.
    • How you would balance this role with your MSc commitments.
    • Any experience you already have with psychometrics, AI tools or people/HR projects.

Applications can be sent to recruitment@peoplebusiness.co.uk with the subject line: “Junior Business Psychologist (Assessment) – Application”.

Please see our recruitment privacy policy here.

Self-employed Associate HR Consultant

We welcome applications from interested HR associates (self-employed/freelancers) to join our growing HR consultancy and Talent business on a flexible work pattern (on an ad-hoc basis and as client workload requires it) to support the varying demands of a wide-ranging client portfolio.

The consultant service will be across all HR disciplines including recruitment and selection; employee relations; employment legislation; employee engagement; talent management and learning and development.

You will also play your part in developing relationships and business with existing clients as well as generating new business opportunities for the team, responding to enquiries, preparing proposals and pitching for work.

The Role

Working in partnership with the PB HR team as an Associate Consultant, you will support Directors and Senior Managers from a variety of different industries to plan, develop and deliver HR initiatives and particular projects.

Main Responsibilities

  • On a project basis, supporting HR clients remotely and at times on site.
  • Assisting with complex employee relations cases such as investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, redundancy and organisational change programmes.
  • Co-ordinating client projects, providing management information to ensure that key objectives are achieved to our clients’ satisfaction.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Competencies & Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills to provide appropriate advice, guidance and support to managers, staff and employee representatives.
  • A highly effective communicator with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate ideas both verbally and in writing.
  • The ability to identify and limit employment law risk to an organisation.
  • Ability to manage large consulting projects, managing internal and external stakeholders for successful outcomes while paying strict attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide practical, solution-driven initiatives that are perceived as quickly adding value to the business.
  • Self-managing and self-motivated.

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Essential:

  • Proven experience in a Consultant role and experience of operating at a Senior HR / HRD level.
  • MCIPD-qualified or equivalent qualification.
  • Good depth of experience in more than one HR discipline.
  • Extensive and up to date employment law knowledge.
  • IT literate with MS Office.
  • Experience of working with a range of clients across the Private and Not for Profit sectors.

Travel/Hours

  • This role will require flexibility in that the work will be sporadic, ad-hoc and often with short time frames to deliver.
  • It will involve spending time in the PB office in Ottershaw, Surrey and potentially travel to London and other sites where our clients are based.

If this opportunity is of interest, please email recruitment@peoplebusiness.co.uk with the following:

  • CV
  • Covering letter
  • Which days of the week you are available for work
  • Day rate

By return we will send you a self-assessment questionnaire as part of our selection process.

Please see our recruitment privacy policy here.

Self-employed Associate HR Consultant

We welcome applications from interested HR associates (self-employed/freelancers) to join our growing HR consultancy and Talent business on a flexible work pattern (on an ad-hoc basis and as client workload requires it) to support the varying demands of a wide-ranging client portfolio.

The consultant service will be across all HR disciplines including recruitment and selection; employee relations; employment legislation; employee engagement; talent management and learning and development.

You will also play your part in developing relationships and business with existing clients as well as generating new business opportunities for the team, responding to enquiries, preparing proposals and pitching for work.

The Role

Working in partnership with the PB HR team as an Associate Consultant, you will support Directors and Senior Managers from a variety of different industries to plan, develop and deliver HR initiatives and particular projects.

Main Responsibilities

  • On a project basis, supporting HR clients remotely and at times on site.
  • Assisting with complex employee relations cases such as investigations, disciplinaries, grievances, redundancy and organisational change programmes.
  • Co-ordinating client projects, providing management information to ensure that key objectives are achieved to our clients’ satisfaction.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Competencies & Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal skills to provide appropriate advice, guidance and support to managers, staff and employee representatives.
  • A highly effective communicator with the ability to clearly and concisely articulate ideas both verbally and in writing.
  • The ability to identify and limit employment law risk to an organisation.
  • Ability to manage large consulting projects, managing internal and external stakeholders for successful outcomes while paying strict attention to detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to provide practical, solution-driven initiatives that are perceived as quickly adding value to the business.
  • Self-managing and self-motivated.

Qualifications, Training and Experience

Essential:

  • Proven experience in a Consultant role and experience of operating at a Senior HR / HRD level.
  • MCIPD-qualified or equivalent qualification.
  • Good depth of experience in more than one HR discipline.
  • Extensive and up to date employment law knowledge.
  • IT literate with MS Office.
  • Experience of working with a range of clients across the Private and Not for Profit sectors.

Travel/Hours

  • This role will require flexibility in that the work will be sporadic, ad-hoc and often with short time frames to deliver.
  • It will involve spending time in the PB office in Ottershaw, Surrey and potentially travel to London and other sites where our clients are based.

If this opportunity is of interest, please email recruitment@peoplebusiness.co.uk with the following:

  • CV
  • Covering letter
  • Which days of the week you are available for work
  • Day rate

By return we will send you a self-assessment questionnaire as part of our selection process.

Please see our recruitment privacy policy here.