Avalon is a multi-award-winning talent management, television production and live promotion group with offices in London, Los Angeles and New York. Avalon, Artists Rights Group and The Agency together represent a diverse and distinctive roster of artists including actors, comedians, writers and directors, among them Academy Award, BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winners.

Avalon is the UK’s largest independent television production company, with over 40 shows in production in the last year including: hit entertainment format Taskmaster (Channel 4 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia, TV4 in Sweden, TVNorge/Discovery+ in Norway); multi-Emmy award winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO); Not Going Out (BBC), the UK’s longest running sitcom on air; Tall Tales & Murder (BBC/RTE), a highly anticipated darkly comedic crime drama; upcoming live-action, sketch comedy series The Terrors Of Jordan Mendoza (Adult Swim); a brand new series of the iconic satirical puppet show Spitting Image: The Rest is Bulls*!t (YouTube) and Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly (Channel 5 in the UK, Network 10 in Australia). Avalon has produced over 4,000 episodes of programming for audiences in the UK, US and around the world, winning 39 Emmy Awards and BAFTAs from 100+ nominations.

Other landmark Avalon shows include Catastrophe (Amazon/Channel 4), Breeders (FX/Sky), Starstruck (HBO Max/BBC), Flatbush Misdemeanors (Showtime), Workaholics (Comedy Central), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), TV Burp (ITV) and Fantasy Football League (BBC/ITV/Sky). Avalon has also produced over 60 comedy specials for various platforms including Amazon, HBO, Netflix and Sky, as well as numerous podcasts and radio shows, including over 300 episodes of the record-breaking, arena-touring podcast, Shagged. Married. Annoyed. with Chris & Rosie Ramsey. Avalon’s dedicated distribution arm licenses its catalogue of programmes and formats to over 200 territories worldwide.

Avalon also produces and promotes live comedy around the world and has promoted more winners and nominees of the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award than any other company. Avalon produced Newman and Baddiel: Live at Wembley, the UK’s first arena comedy show, Jerry Springer: The Opera, winner of four Olivier Awards, and is currently producing the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical, Operation Mincemeat in the West End and on Broadway.

We are always on the lookout for exceptional talent. Avalon is committed to creating a diverse environment and proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups. 

THE TEAM

The HR Coordinator is a newly created role, reporting directly to the Head of HR and providing additional support to the Global Director of Operations and HR. This is a tight knit team based in our west London office with an additional team member based in LA.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

This is an important role, that helps ensure the smooth running of our HR function across the full employee lifecycle from recruitment coordination, onboarding to offboarding, and everything in between.

SPECIFIC DUTIES

HR Operations & Administration

• Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day HR queries, responding to basic employee queries on policies, processes, holidays, HR system and benefits.
• You will be fully responsible for ensuring that our HR systems and employees’ records are up to date, ensuring accuracy and GDPR compliance at all times.
• Prepare HR letters/emails when required relating to probation, contract changes, leavers etc.
• Support payroll processing by collating and checking monthly data.
• Help with internal communications and the coordination of company-wide initiatives e.g. DEI activities.
• Manage the HR inbox, being both timely and professional. 
• Responsible for ensuring that HR trackers are up to date all times
• Assist with updating HR policies and templates and maintain Staff Handbook.
• Provide administrative support for employee relations cases when necessary (note-taking, document preparation).

Recruitment & Onboarding

• Coordinate recruitment activities including job postings when required, interview scheduling, and candidate communications.
• Provide support with candidate shortlisting and conduct initial screening calls.
• Provide admin support for onboarding processes including right-to-work checks, references, and induction planning and paperwork.
• Track probationary periods and liaise with managers and Head of HR on meetings.

Employee Lifecycle & Engagement

• Support the running of annual appraisals and initial reviews, ensuring deadlines are tracked.
• Coordinate exit processes including scheduling exit interviews and handling leaver documentation.
• Support company-wide HR initiatives such as wellbeing programmes, engagement surveys, and DEI events.
• Tracking employees’ anniversaries and significant personal events/birthdays.

Benefits

• Assist with benefits administration and benchmarking.

Collaboration

• Provide day-to-day administrative and coordination across the whole HR team

Training

• Supporting any training coordination, helping to organise internal lunch and learns, and liaising with external providers

ABOUT YOU

To be considered for this role you must have:

• Previous experience in an HR team, ideally in an SME.
• CIPD 5 or Batchelors degree in HR, or similar
• Strong attention to detail and able to produce accurate work delivered to deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An understanding of what it means to deliver great service
• Happy to take direction but equally happy to prioritise and manage workload.
• Proficiency working with Microsoft office suite
• Exposure to HR software such as an ATS and/or HRIS would be helpful.