Employee Engagement Manager

Employee Engagement Manager
Human Resources
Full-Time
Permanent
£40,663 - £45,295 per annum
Application Deadline: 12pm (midday) on Monday 18 March 2024

The HR department at the British Museum is evolving. We recently signed off on a new HR strategy which aims to ensure that we provide first class support to the leadership and management teams of the British Museum and British Museum Company Ltd. We provide high quality strategic and operational HR advice to support the Museum in the growth and development required to meet a series of ambitious and challenging organisational strategic objectives. We also strive to ensure an excellent employee experience for all of our people.

About the role

We now have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team in the role of Employee Engagement Manager. This role leads on all matters relating to Employee Engagement as well as managing and developing the way we engage with our employees and their representatives (trade unions).

Key areas of responsibility will include:

• Supporting the delivery and development of the Employee Engagement elements of our HR Strategy, to include responsibility for Internal Communications, Employee Recognition and Sustainability.
• Contributing HR expertise to engagement projects and initiatives, ensuring compliance with external and internal requirements.
• Maintaining and developing mechanisms for measuring and analysing levels of Employee Engagement; taking responsibility for ensuring plans are developed in response to findings and implementing those plans to time and budget.
• Acting as the first point of contact in engagements with trade unions; maintaining positive partnerships, arranging and setting agendas for relevant consultative and negotiation committee meetings, ensuring on-going compliance with recognition and supporting the development of relevant strategies.
• Maintaining and developing HR policies and procedures to ensure compliance with changing external requirements and consistency with best practice.

About you:

You will have previous experience in an HR role, specifically managing the development and delivery of successful Employee Engagement programmes and initiatives. An ability to balance conflicting demands and priorities is essential as is proven experience of managing and resolving complex problems across a wide range of disciplines. You will also need to bring experience of working with trade unions or employee representative groups to the role.

To succeed in this role, you will have excellent written and verbal communication skills and be able to demonstrate an ability to relate appropriately to all colleagues and stakeholders.

If you think you could play a role in helping us deliver on these exciting and ambitious plans, we would love to hear from you.

About the British Museum:

Founded in 1753, the British Museum’s remarkable collection spans over two million years of human history and culture. The Museum is one of the leading visitor attractions and its world-famous collection includes the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, Egyptian mummies, the Admonitions Scroll, and the Amaravati sculptures.

The Museum offers a competitive benefits package including:

• Generous annual leave allowance of 25 days (rising to 30 days after 10 years’ service) plus 2.5 privilege days and plus bank holidays
• Membership of the civil service defined benefit pension scheme (find out here what benefits a civil service pension provides).
• Free entry to a wide range of museums and exhibitions
• Participation in private and public Museum activities, including talks by leading curators from around the world and behind-the-scenes opportunities to learn how museums care for and manage their extraordinary collections
• Interest-free travel, bicycle and rental deposit loans
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts on food and gift shop purchases

Additional details:

For more information about this role, please see the job description.

If you have any additional needs that we should be aware of in order to support you with your application, please provide details to bmrecruit@britishmuseum.org.

The British Museum is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to create a working environment in which all individuals can make best use of their skills, free from unlawful discrimination or harassment. We value the benefits that a diverse workforce brings to a Museum which represents world culture. The Museum is committed to ensuring that no job applicant suffers unlawful discrimination because of any protected characteristics. Our recruitment procedures aim to ensure that individuals are treated because of their relevant knowledge, skills and experience.

We offer a flexible way of working scheme that allows our employees to work remotely in a way that suits them and the organisation. We welcome questions and conversations at interview stage about how flexible working could work for you. 

The Museum adheres to the HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) for pre-employment screening of Civil Servants.