UK Research and Innovation
Salary: £45,272 per annum
Hours: Full time or Part time (Minimum 0.8 FTE)
Contract Type: Open Ended.
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory or Daresbury Laboratory
Closing Date: 12 January 2025
We are looking to expand the HR Business Partnering team and have an exciting development opportunity for two new HR Business Partner roles to support Senior HR Business Partners with the delivery of their portfolio of activity.
This new role will align to our science community working across STFC.
Senior HR Business Partners work closely with senior leaders and play a critical role in identifying, developing and delivering people interventions that closely support organisational strategy, and build people and organisational capability.
As an HR Business Partner, you will support this work, building your professional knowledge and experience in developing local people strategies, and deploying appropriate processes and solutions within a designated business area.
Key accountabilities include:
Developing trusted relationships with leaders/managers, building professional credibility and mutual trust.
Supporting the Senior HRBPs with business transformation and culture change activities through providing advice, challenge, coaching, and ensuring access to the full range of HR services.
Support the delivery of a programme of interventions to ensure that current and future skill/capability requirements are captured and prioritised as part of the skills strategy and incorporated into learning and development programmes.
Supporting the rollout of new initiatives (e.g., workforce planning, performance management, leadership and learning), working collaboratively with HR colleagues and centres of expertise, and engaging effectively with leaders/managers to ensure their buy in to the changes, and delivery against UKRI and local objectives.
Supporting the Senior HRBPs with the development and delivery of local people related planning initiatives.
Supporting the development of local people management capability, working effectively with colleagues in HR Operations to ensure access to good advice and encouraging self-service.
Analysing and gathering insight from HR data, surveys and other feedback to diagnose issues/trends/concerns, working with the Senior HRBPs to ensure that mitigations/plans are in place.
Supporting the delivery of HR programmes to embed initiatives, support cultural and behavioural change and deliver organisational change projects of varying scope.
Lead on supporting the delivery of Learning and Development initiatives identified from local people plans and from the UKRI Leadership and Learning Team.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
CIPD membership and/or equivalent relevant HR professional experience. (S)
Good knowledge and experience of successfully working in a variety of HR roles in complex organisational environments.(S/I)
Experience in delivering local people focused interventions that support performance management, talent, leadership and capability development, workforce planning, recruitment, behaviour and culture change.(I)
Good knowledge of HR best practice and UK employment law.(S/I)
Ability to objectively analyse people issues and recommend appropriate advice and solutions.(I)
Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative, managing your own time effectively.(I)
Sound IT skills and proficiency in the use of spreadsheets and data manipulation, specifically, analytical skills and the ability to identify, analyse and make appropriate recommendations.(S/I)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to present information, to persuade, influence, counsel, support or challenge people at all levels, and to treat relevant information confidentially.(S/I)
Excellent communication skills and ability to build effective working relationships (I)
A proactive, self-motivated, results-focused approach.(I)
Ability to work with ambiguity and often under pressure.(I)
Ability to confidently make decisions and consider the risks associated with those decisions.(I)
Travel
There will be a requirement to travel to UKRI sites to deliver business activity as required. STFC sites include RAL, Daresbury and UKATC.
The role will be based at either Rutherford or Daresbury and there will be a requirement for at least 3 days a week onsite presence, pending business needs.
Interviews
In person interviews to take place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 20/21 January 2025.
Please apply online. If you experience any issue applying, please contact Recruitment@ukri.org
About UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
UKRI launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Together we build an independent organisation with a strong voice and vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at
www.ukri.org . Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit
Benefits of working for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment. How we support EDI in the workforce At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘ How we support EDI in the workforce ’. Disability Confident Employer As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. How to apply Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application. UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.
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www.ukri.org . Choosing to come to work at UKRI means that you will have access to a whole host of benefits from a defined benefit pension scheme, excellent holiday entitlement, access to employee shopping/travel discounts and salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme. For more details, visit
Benefits of working for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The role holder will be required to have the appropriate level of security screening/vetting required for the role. UKRI reserves the right to run or re-run security clearance as required during the course of employment. How we support EDI in the workforce At UKRI, we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to thrive and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘ How we support EDI in the workforce ’. Disability Confident Employer As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy/ies. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. How to apply Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit a CV and covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit an application without a covering letter may result in the application not being considered. Assessment will only be based upon the content of your submitted covering letter and CV and not the ‘experience’ section of the application. UKRI seeks to ensure it creates and maintains a system of openness, fairness and inclusion – a collaborative, trusted environment, which is attractive to and accessible to everyone who is interested in developing their career with us.
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