Senior Consultant in HR

About the position

Do you enjoy working with administrative tasks within HR? Then you might be the colleague we are looking for! We are seeking someone to become our new HR consultant (senior consultant) in the HR section at our faculty. This is a temporary position (maternity/paternity leave substitute) for one year. The workplace will be at the MN faculty administration premises at Blindern, Oslo.

What can you expect?

The section's tasks and areas of responsibility encompass administration and advisory within the entire HR field, contributing to fulfilling the faculty's objectives and strategic plans. We deliver HR services to all faculty units, including the faculty management. We are 15 colleagues in the section, and you will become part of an engaged and tightly-knit team where we support and cheer each other on and have fun together. At the same time, we strive to deliver at a high professional level to the faculty, institutes, and centers, which total around 2000 employees. We have a wide breadth of competence and experience within the team, and you will become an important resource contributing to delivering high-quality services to the institutes. In this job, you will primarily work with personnel administrative tasks. The work tasks place high demands on accuracy and the ability to work systematically and independently. You will work together with the HR advisors who work with various institutes and centers, so you will gain good insight into how the HR section operates. You will also gain good insight into processes that ensure good administration in the public sector, and not least insight into the complexity involved in working with recruitment processes that have different requirements for case processing depending on the job category.

Your main tasks will be

Case processing (administration) of HR tasks in accordance with state laws and agreements. Examples of tasks in this position may include, among others:

• Preparation of employment contracts
• Processing leave applications, extensions, and resignations
• Case processing related to WebSak and the recruitment system Jobbnorge
• Other tasks may be assigned to the position.

What competence is important in this role?

Qualification requirements:

We want you to have:

• Education at least equivalent to a bachelor's degree, preferably with HR as the subject area. Relevant practical competence within HR can replace the education requirement
• Experience from HR case processing
• Very good written and oral communication skills, in Norwegian and English
• Good IT skills

We hope you have:

• Knowledge of laws and agreements within the state sector, preferably the university and college sector

We use WebSak as a case processing system, SAP HR as a personnel system, and Jobbnorge as a recruitment system. Experience with these systems is an advantage.

UiO is subject to the Security Act (Sikkerhetsloven), which places requirements on the organization's handling of protected objects and knowledge, as well as other relevant legislation affecting the processing of and access to sensitive information. Based on this, it is a prerequisite for employment that the candidate is security-cleared. We point out that we may use background checks as part of our recruitment process.

What are we looking for in you?

Personal qualities:

We are looking for you who is accurate and who works in a structured and systematic manner. You must be responsible, independent, proactive, and good at finding good solutions. You are service-oriented and solution-oriented, and if you can handle hectic periods with a smile, it will be highly appreciated. It is also important that you are good at communication and collaboration with others. Employment in the position is based on a holistic assessment of all qualification requirements applicable to the position, including personal qualities.

We can offer you

• Exciting and meaningful work tasks in an organization with an important social mission, contributing to knowledge development, education, and enlightenment that promotes sustainable, fair, and knowledge-based societal development
• Engaged colleagues in a good working environment
• Good welfare schemes in addition to a family-friendly Oslo with many opportunities for culture and outdoor activities
• Opportunity for up to 1.5 hours per week of exercise during working hours
• Membership in Statens Pensjonskasse, which is one of Norway's best pension schemes with favorable mortgage loans and good insurance schemes
• Salary in a position as senior consultant, position code 1408, in the salary range from NOK 550,000 – 650,000 depending on competence and experience. From the salary, 2% is deducted as statutory contribution to Statens Pensjonskasse.

Read more about the benefits of working in the state in Arbeidsgiverportalen.

We need different perspectives in our work

UiO is an open and international broad-based university, and aims to be an inclusive and diverse workplace and place of study. Read more about UiO's work for equality, inclusion, and diversity at uio.no.

We fulfill our social mission best when we utilize our different experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. We would like to have more good colleagues - perhaps the next one is you?

We will provide accommodations if you have a need for it. Relevant accommodation can, for example, be changes in working hours, adaptation of work tasks, digital, technical, or physical accommodation, or other practical adjustments.

If you have an immigrant background, a disability, or gaps in your CV, we encourage you to check this in the job application portal. We always invite at least one qualified applicant from each group to an interview. By disability, we mean an applicant who states they have a disability that will require accommodation in the workplace or in the employment relationship. Read more about the requirements on Arbeidsgiverportalen.

The checkboxes in the job application portal are used for anonymized statistics that all state enterprises report in their annual reports. More information about equality measures at UiO can be found here.

We hope you apply for the position with us.

How to apply for the position?

The application must include:

• Cover letter
• CV
• Diplomas/Certificates
• References
• Contact information for 2-3 references

Applications with attachments must be submitted via our recruitment system Jobbnorge; click “Søk stillingen”.

When you apply for the position, we ask you to retrieve your educational results from Vitnemålsportalen.no. If your educational results are not available via Vitnemålsportalen, we ask you to upload copies of your diplomas or transcripts. We point out that all documentation must be in English or a Scandinavian language.

Formal guidelines

The most qualified applicants will be invited to an interview.

Applicant lists may be made public in accordance with Offentleglova § 25, second paragraph. When you apply for a job with us, your name will appear on the public applicant list. It is possible to request to be exempted from this list. You must provide a reason why you wish to be exempted from publication, and we will then decide whether we can grant your request. If we cannot, you will hear from us.