HR Administrator, part-time

Application deadline: Friday 3 July 2026 – 23:59 BST
Location: Cambridge, UK (hybrid working, minimum one day per week in Cambridge)

Part-time : 21 hours per week over 3 days
Contract: Fixed-term until 18 December 2026

Salary: £25,000 per annum depending on skills/experience, plus competitive 12% pension benefit
Annual Leave: 25 days pro rata

We’re BirdLife International, the only global Partnership conserving birds and all life on our planet. We exist to give one voice to nature, and to unite and strengthen conservation across borders.

We are looking for an HR Administrator to provide administrative support to our busy and friendly Global HR team. This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience through exposure to various HR initiatives in a truly global context.

In this role, you will be supporting the HR function through maintaining, collating and checking important data, policies, staff records and handbooks so that we can continue to provide a helpful and efficient global HR service.

How you will do this:

HR Management Information:

• Assist with maintaining HR metrics, KPIs and other management information as required (including staff attendance, sickness, recruitment, exit interviews and appraisals)

• Check, cleanse and maintain the HR policy file plan

• Perform various other data checks to ensure accuracy of personnel records

Job Evaluation:

• Collate benefits data from external benchmarking company

• Cleanse and save latest versions of job descriptions

Other Duties:

• Support the maintenance and review of staff handbook and HR policies

• Provide back up support on other HR administrative tasks as required.

• Support the team with general HR initiatives/Projects

• Work in conjunction with other administrative staff to ensure effective support is provided across BirdLife International and provide back up support to BirdLife support team as required.

What we are looking for:

To be successful in this role you’ll need to have excellent attention to detail, an ability to remain calm and focused and fantastic communication skills. You’ll have an appreciation for the criticality of maintaining confidential data and be confident with handling and analysing data. This role requires a good general understanding of HR processes and experience in a people-focused role. HR administration experience is an advantage.

See the full job description here.

Some of our benefits:

• We are able to offer a hybrid model of working on-site and from home/remote for most roles, which helps to ensure a flexible work-life balance.

• A chance to work in the award-winning David Attenborough Building, which brings together much of the Cambridge-based conservation community on a ‘conservation campus.’

• A generous pension scheme, up to 12% company contribution.

• Holiday starting at 25 days excluding Bank Holidays and increasing for every year of service up to a maximum of 28 days.

• Full access to LinkedIn Learning with access to more than 13,000 high-quality, on-demand courses.

• Cycle to work scheme.

• Employee Assistance Programme, including access to Health Assured online health portal.

BirdLife values a diverse workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. Find out more about our Diversity statement.

We are committed to building and maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture, a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed on merit. We aim to promote a more inclusive environment, which attracts all candidates and signals our commitment to celebrate and promote diversity.

We know that everyone’s needs are different. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, let us know, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Please note: under the UK Government criteria this role will not be eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Interviews: Interviews will be held during the week of 13 July 2026.