Strategic People Business Partner

Company Description

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative."

To succeed in this exciting and challenging role here at UKAEA you may have previously specialised in any HR discipline or had more of a generalist background, but most importantly you will have had significant Business Partner experience within a technical, scientific or engineering organisation. You will be comfortable working alongside executive leaders as a senior advisor to be business on all matters people-related. Our Directorates cover an amazing array of cutting edge technology and scientific as well as engineering activities, with increasingly diverse working partnerships and funding arrangements.

If you are looking for somewhere you can use your HR expertise to make a real difference, become part of a professional service and business partnership that directly affects our ability to save the plant, we look forward to hearing from you!

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

• Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
• Corporate bonus scheme up to 7% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
• Flexible working options including family friendly policies.
• Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders, 
• Emergency paid leave, Generous annual leave allowance (30.5 days) increased with length of service,
• Wide range of career development opportunities
• A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive

Job Description

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. 

Qualifications

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. 

Additional Information

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.