Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB
Job Summary
We’re looking for an exceptional Early Careers People Leader to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Early Careers People Leader, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home.This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week.Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best toagreea working pattern that works for everyone.
Whilst this is a temporary position for two years, there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position.
World changing work
From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.
* We’re aforcefor good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
* We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
* We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart ofdecision-making
* We’re bettertogether-understandingpartnerships and inclusivity make us greater
* We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Job Description
Your world of expertise
The Met Office is fundamentally dependent on its technology to support delivery of services to customers and stakeholders. The Technology directorate is at the forefront of ensuring the Met Office uses cutting-edge technology to deliver the most value to the organisation, underpinning the reliable delivery of our world class services to customers and ensuring our world leading science capability can be fully exploited to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Your role as the Early Careers People Leader is to effectively lead and manage early career members of the Technology directorate on placement, apprenticeship and development schemes, empowering and enabling them to develop in their role. Typically, a People Leader would expect to manage between 15 and 20 members of staff. The Technology Early Careers People Leader will also play a major part in the recruitment of early career staff and work with other teams to enhance the development schemes.
Your Key Duties:
* As an enthusiastic leader and role model, manage and lead early career staff such that they are engaged, motivated and inspired as they progress on their journey with the Met Office.
* Provide Line Management for the early careers posts within the Technology directorate and managed the full employee lifecycle including driving any required early careers recruitment.
* Work with early careers staff in your team to ensure that they are all feel engaged, satisfied and developed. Invest time in developing relationships with all team members, taking time to understand their motivations and what energises them, identify their training needs, to enable unlocking their potential and promoting a culture of development and progression within the organisation.
* Ensure the team are aligned to all corporate standards and people management processes.
* Work and communicate, at the appropriate level, with the wider Technology and People Leadership Teams to support and promote the staff and develop the early careers programmes.
* Effectively deliver people management objectives and pursue own development.We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements.
Your world of expertise
The Met Office is fundamentally dependent on its technology to support delivery of services to customers and stakeholders. The Technology directorate is at the forefront of ensuring the Met Office uses cutting-edge technology to deliver the most value to the organisation, underpinning the reliable delivery of our world class services to customers and ensuring our world leading science capability can be fully exploited to help people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Your role as the Early Careers People Leader is to effectively lead and manage early career members of the Technology directorate on placement, apprenticeship and development schemes, empowering and enabling them to develop in their role. Typically, a People Leader would expect to manage between 15 and 20 members of staff. The Technology Early Careers People Leader will also play a major part in the recruitment of early career staff and work with other teams to enhance the development schemes.
Your Key Duties:
* As an enthusiastic leader and role model, manage and lead early career staff such that they are engaged, motivated and inspired as they progress on their journey with the Met Office.
* Provide Line Management for the early careers posts within the Technology directorate and managed the full employee lifecycle including driving any required early careers recruitment.
* Work with early careers staff in your team to ensure that they are all feel engaged, satisfied and developed. Invest time in developing relationships with all team members, taking time to understand their motivations and what energises them, identify their training needs, to enable unlocking their potential and promoting a culture of development and progression within the organisation.
* Ensure the team are aligned to all corporate standards and people management processes.
* Work and communicate, at the appropriate level, with the wider Technology and People Leadership Teams to support and promote the staff and develop the early careers programmes.
* Effectively deliver people management objectives and pursue own development.We operate an on-call roster in Technology to provide 24/7/365 support to respond to operational service requirements.
Person specification
Essential Criteria, Skills And Experience:
* Show that you are a Force for Good by providing evidence of an engaging leadership style and the necessary leadership techniques required to develop a high functioning, highly engaged team.
* Evidence of being an Expert by Nature by demonstrating your experience of leading a team aligning with corporate and people standards, with evidence of when and how you have motivated the team members in a positive way and how you have developed them.
* Show you Live and Breathe It with evidence of utilising tools and techniques to better evidence staff recruitment, staff performance and identifying development opportunities and managing performance
* Show that you are Better Together with evidence of developing effective and well-functioning teams and liaising with wider communities for sharing and identifying best practices.
* Show that you Keep Evolving with evidence of your willingness to engage and contribute towards the development of new capabilities and ways of working and evident passion for people management.
Alongside your salary of £41,725, Met Office contributes £12,087 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Why join us
Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing.The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.
As our Early Careers People Leader, your total reward package will be up to £58,419 annually, which includes:
* £41,725 base pay
* An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
* Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
Selection process details
How To Apply
If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.
Closing date 18/05/2025 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 26/05/2025. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.
How We Can Help
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.
If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us.Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the DisabilityConfidentScheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
Weunderstand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information.We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Medical
Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.
Nationality requirements
This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
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Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
* Name : Resourcing Team
* Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
* Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
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