Strategic People Business Partner

Overview of Responsibilities

UKAEA’s pay arrangements and grading structure are currently under review as part of a transformation project and proposed multi-year pay deal. UKAEA aims to introduce a new grading structure in 2024. This will enable us to lead the delivery of sustainable fusion energy and maximise the scientific and economic benefit. Now is a great time to join the Organisation and be part of the journey.

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. 
• Potentially managing a departmental People and L&D budget

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.