Job Description
Are you a people professional looking for an opportunity to make their mark on a world-leading creative organisation? Sadler’s Wells is looking for a People Partner to join our team.
At Sadler’s Wells, our teams highly value their People Partners as an extension of their teams. We are ambitiously building our ways of working to define the roadmap to embed the People Partnering model and achieve truly strategic people partnering. You will be joining a team that is striving to be inclusive, visible, reliable, and focused on supporting talent to thrive.
You will be the People Partner for a diverse portfolio of departments building trusted and influential relationships with leaders and managers. You will gain a deeper understanding of their priorities and help them make fair, confident and impactful people decisions.
Employee relations will be at the heart of your role. You will advise on and manage a varied caseload, including complex or sensitive matters, providing expert guidance with sound judgement, empathy and commercial awareness- helping managers address issues early wherever possible and ensuring formal processes are handled fairly, consistently and with appropriate pace.
This is an exciting time to join us. As our People and Culture operating model develops, you will have the opportunity to influence how we work and help shape the future of the function. While the role will include operational HR delivery, it offers far more than day to day support. You will be instrumental in strengthening foundations, driving improvements, embedding new ways of working and contributing to a transformation that will enable a more strategic partnering approach.
For the right person, this role will help strengthen the foundations, improve our ways of working and offer a unique opportunity to see the visible impact of the transformation you have helped deliver.
The breadth of this role means that no two days are the same. The role will suit someone who thrives on variety and enjoys making a tangible impact. You could be coaching a leader through managing conflict first thing, collaborating on an impactful wellbeing initiative before lunch, and creating a new role with one of your stakeholders before the day ends. Every day brings fresh opportunities to influence, improve and shape the employee experience.
We’re a supportive and hardworking team, working on a variety of projects. Due to the nature of the role, collaboration is key to the success of our plan. The People Partner will usually work 3-4 out of 5 days on one of our three sites with stakeholders and People Team colleagues.
A full job pack can be found on our website when you click to apply or you can view it by clicking the following link- People Partner Job Pack - September 2026.
We welcome all applications by 11:59pm GMT on Friday 9th October 2026. Interviews will take place on or around 20th October 2026.
We are committed to building a culturally diverse workforce and actively encourage applications from Black, Asian and those belonging to ethnic groups that are currently underrepresented within the Arts. Applications from d/Deaf and disabled communities and low socio-economic backgrounds are also welcome.
As a Disability Confident Committed employer, we offer an interview to disabled candidates if the minimum essential criteria for the role is met (when disability indicated at application stage of the recruitment process). In some circumstances, such as where we receive a high volume of applications meeting the minimum essential criteria, we may receive more applications than we are reasonably able to interview for any given role. In these circumstances, we will select a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates who best meet the minimum criteria for the role.
Sadler’s Wells is a PiPA (Parents and Carers in Performing Arts) Charter Partner, striving towards creating a more family friendly working environment.
If you would like support or have any queries regarding the format or submission of the application, please contact us on recruitment@sadlerswells.com
For a list of all our current opportunities, please go to the Sadler’s Wells website sadlerswells.com/vacancies. Please note that if you have not already done so, you will be required to register an account with us when you first apply for one of our opportunities.
What you'll earn (you won't find "competitive salary” written instead of a figure on our watch!)
£43,500
What you'll receive in return (Benefits)
Enhanced Leave Entitlement
25 days holiday plus bank holidays (this increases to 28 days after 5 years’ service).
Additional pay for parental/family leave (subject to eligibility).
Social Events
Summer and End of Year gatherings and celebrations.
Employee Assistance Programme
Support for your health and wellness. Including counselling and life moments advice and guidance.
Pension
Opportunity to join the scheme and gain from employer contributions.
Discounts & Complimentary Tickets
Colleague discount at our Garden Court Café, Free tickets to shows and further discounted rates.
Eye Care
Free eye test for display unit users, Contribution to prescription eyewear costs.
Flexible Benefits
Learning and development opportunities, Flexible working options, Interest free season ticket loans and cycle loans.
CIPD Requirement
Closing Date
Sadler’s Wells is a world-leading creative organisation, dedicated to presenting, producing and touring dance made today in all its forms. Sadler’s Wells commissions, presents and produces more dance than any other theatre in the world – from tango to hip hop, ballet to flamenco, Bollywood to cutting-edge contemporary dance. With an innovative, year-round programme of performances and learning activities, this is the place where artists come together to create dance, and where we welcome everyone to experience dance and be inspired.
Our aim is to reflect and respond to the world through dance: enabling artists of all backgrounds to create dance that moves us and opens our minds; sharing those experiences with the widest possible audiences to enrich their lives and deepen their understanding of what it means to be human. More than half a million people come to our theatres in London each year, with many more enjoying our touring productions at partner venues across the UK and in cities around the world. Sadler’s Wells Theatre has been located in Islington since the 17th century. Today Sadler’s Wells consists of the Sadler’s Wells Theatre (1,500 seats); the Lilian Baylis Studio (180 seats); three rehearsal studios; bars, a café, facilities for private and corporate entertaining and offices for Sadler’s Wells’ colleagues. Our second theatre building and West End home, the Peacock (1,000 seats), is subject to a unique agreement whereby Sadler’s Wells and the London School of Economics jointly manage it, with the LSE presenting its lectures to students during the day and Sadler’s Wells presenting theatre at night.
Our fourth venue Sadler's Wells East opened last year in east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. Sadler’s Wells’ new space is located on the Stratford Waterfront site, opposite the London Aquatics Centre, alongside UAL’s London College of Fashion and the V&A Museum. The site forms part of a new cultural and education district, which will also include a major new University College London (UCL) campus with direct links to the creative communities already based in east London.
Sadler’s Wells’ new space houses a 550-seat mid-scale theatre, as well as facilities for the Rose Choreographic School and Academy Breakin' Convention.