Strategic People Business Partner

The salary for this role is £59,723 + excellent benefits package, and our hybrid working policy is to be onsite for 3 days per week, however we do offer the opportunity for flexible working.

This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.

As Strategic People Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role supporting the Directorate Leadership Team in developing department/programme/business unit people plans aligned to the business priorities and UKAEA mission and goals. You will be working closely with Director of People and People colleagues in L&D, TA and Pay & Reward, ensuring current and future capability requirements are met. You will also be acting as the strategic People lead for assigned departments/ programmes/business units, including responsibility for instigating, managing and implementing strategic projects, from scoping and design to delivery and realisation. Projects will cover resourcing, employee engagement, organisational design and talent development. 

Additional Responsibilities:

• Contributing to developing the organisational strategy by ensuring that the people agenda is integrated into it, demonstrating a deep understanding of organisation strategy and direction. 
• Working collaboratively with Trades Union colleagues and employee representative groups, influencing as appropriate. 
• Championing diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the role. 
• Deputising for senior colleagues as necessary. 
• Researching, benchmarking, piloting, implementing, evaluating and reviewing People policies, as required. 
• Delivering important business intelligence to colleagues in the People Department to inform service improvements, working collaboratively to enable the development and implementation of those improvements. 

Essential Requirements:

• Educated to degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience. 
• CIPD Qualified to L7 (Diploma).  
• Extensive experience of business partnering at a strategic level in a complex environment. 
• Experience of advising on EDI, Pay and Reward, OD&D, ER and L&D.
• Excellent people skills, including coaching and developing others. 
• Experience of developing strategic priorities and using those priorities to enable culture change. 
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills. 
• Able to challenge robustly. 
• Creative in finding solutions to support the organisation to achieve its goals. 
• Highly motivated and collaborative. 

A full list of our benefits can be found here: https://careers.ukaea.uk/life-at-ukaea/employee-benefits/

We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.

Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications.

For applicants applying from outside the United Kingdom or those who have spent time outside the UK in the last five years, please visit the following link for information on criminal records checks: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants If your country of residence or previous residence is not listed on the website or if the UK Government does not have information on obtaining a criminal records check from that state, we regret to inform you that we cannot process your application.