Your new roleHays is partnering with a growing coastal Essex-based organisation to appoint a hands-on, standalone HR Manager on an interim basis. Acting as a trusted sounding board to the Director, you''ll play a key role in modernising and strengthening the organisation''s people foundations.This role will suit a confident, hands-on HR generalist with proven trade union experience and a strong grounding in employment law. The successful candidate will be comfortable rolling up their sleeves to get the fundamentals right, initially leading a gap analysis of the employee handbook, policies and core HR processes. Alongside this delivery-focused work, you''ll also play a key role in shaping the organisation''s longer-term people agenda, including career pathways, leadership development, engagement initiatives and aspects of organisational design.Starting this month, this is a part-time interim role for an initial six-month period, with the potential to extend. The role is 25-30 hours per week, offers flexibility around working hours, and will require an on-site presence initially to embed effectively, before moving to a hybrid arrangement if preferred. What you need to do nowIf you''re interested in this role, click ''apply now'' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call Louisa London, Senior HR Appointments for East Anglia and Essex for more information. Hays EA is a trading division of Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited and acts as an employment agency for permanent r