Overview
About the Role
This is a fantastic opportunity for a proactive HR professional to take on a rewarding role at the heart of the NIO. Reporting to the Head of Capability and Culture, you will play a pivotal role in building departmental capability and delivering an exceptional HR service that supports our business and people objectives. This is a multi-disciplinary role covering a wide range of HR responsibilities. You will lead on key annual projects such as the People Survey, support the talent and learning budget, and champion our diversity and inclusion agenda. At the same time, you will provide advice and support across the full employee lifecycle, including performance management, employee wellbeing, talent schemes, and recruitment.
Responsibilities
* Talent Management and Development:
o Coordinate and implement key talent development programs, including apprenticeships, the Fast Stream, and other accelerated development schemes.
o Support managing the Learning and Development (L&D) budget, working with stakeholders to ensure L&D is prioritised and new training opportunities are scoped effectively.
* HR Generalist and Advisory Support:
o Support the delivery of the annual performance management cycle, ensuring managers and staff have the tools and guidance for effective performance conversations.
o Support the NIO’s ambition to build line management capability in line with Civil Service standards, running sessions and sharing best practice on topics including sickness absence management.
o Collaborate with HR colleagues to deliver key HR processes, support with onboarding, and ensure HR policies and guidance are regularly updated.
* Data, Insights, and Reporting:
o Support the end-to-end implementation of the annual People Survey, analysing data and creating engagement plans to address key findings.
o Develop and analyse comprehensive HR data using MS Excel to inform departmental decisions on diversity, inclusion, and absence management.
* Diversity, Inclusion, and Wellbeing:
o Support driving the department's diversity and inclusion strategy forward, working with staff networks to identify and address barriers.
o Champion and promote employee wellbeing, promoting events and highlighting its importance within the workplace.
Essential Criteria
* Experience of working effectively and collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders to resolve complex issues.
* Good data analysis and reporting skills, with the ability to use tools like MS Excel to identify trends and inform strategic decisions.
* Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage a range of tasks effectively under pressure.
* Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate information clearly to different audiences.
* Existing National Security Vetting to at least CTC level.
Desirable Criteria
* CIPD Level 5 qualification or have experience in a HR Generalist role
Behaviours
We will assess you against the following Civil Service Success Profiles behaviours at HEO level:
* Managing a Quality Service (lead behaviour)
* Communicating and Influencing
* Working Together
* Making Effective Decisions
Application
Please provide a CV and a statement of suitability outlining how your skills and experience meet the essential and desirable criteria for this role. The statement of suitability should be no more than 500 words and the lead behaviour (managing a quality service) no more than 250 words. These will be used in order to assess any demonstrable experience, career history and achievements that are relevant to the role.
Your statement of suitability needs to set out evidence of how your experience meets the requirements set out above. Your layout is entirely your preference; you may choose narrative, bullets, etc. One narrative example may cover the requirements needed. You don’t have to explain the whole process, just what you have done and the skills and experience you have used. Share with us what makes you suited to this role and why. What you can do, the skills you have that are transferable and the life experience or passion you have that are linked to this role.
You will also be asked to complete a CV with details of your education, professional qualifications, previous skills and full employment history. Your CV will not be formally assessed so please put the main evidence of your skills into your personal statement. Your CV will be used to add context to your personal statement.
Interview
Interview
You will be assessed against behaviours and strengths at the interview stage and will be asked to provide examples of how you have demonstrated the behaviours.
It may help to use one or more examples of a piece of work you have completed or a situation you have been in and use the WHO or STAR model to explain:
* WHO: What it was? How you approached the work/situation? What the Outcomes were, what did you achieve?
* STAR: What was the Situation? What were the Tasks? What Action did you take? What were the Results of your actions?
Strengths
It is difficult to prepare for strength type questions. However, you can think through your answers, focus on your achievements and aspects you enjoy and decide how these can be applied in the organisation and role. While strengths questions are shorter and we do not expect a full STAR response, the panel is interested in your first reaction to the question and information or reasoning to support this.
If you do not have work-based examples then please give examples from school/college, clubs, volunteering or other activities you have been involved in.
Offer
Once all interviews have been completed, you will be notified of the outcome by email. Offers will be made in strict merit order to the highest scoring candidate first. The successful candidate will be notified of a start date following successful security checks. Additional information received after the closing date will not be considered. Failure to provide sufficient information in support of an application prior to the closing date will not be considered as grounds for an appeal if an applicant is not shortlisted for interview.
Security Clearance
This role requires National Security Vetting given the access to sensitive information afforded by the job role. The successful candidate is required to hold existing Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) clearance. In addition, there is a minimum UK residency requirement set by the Cabinet Office which is dependent on the security level required for the role. You can find more information by reviewing the information held in the following links:
United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK
The vetting charter - GOV.UK
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.
Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Further Information
Further information about the post may be obtained from Daneeta Chubbah via email to
All applications for employment are considered strictly on the basis of merit.
This job description should not be taken as constituting conditions of employment.
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