People Partner
Office for National Statistics
Apply before 11:55 pm on Thursday 14th November 2024
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ONS operates a flexible hybrid working model across the UK, with colleagues linked to one of our contractual locations in Newport or Titchfield (Fareham) or London
As part of the hybrid working arrangement there is a 40% minimum office attendance requirement. Attendance is typically at your contractual office, with occasional travel to alternative locations.
Some of the vacancies can be based at either our Newport or Titchfield site, and one of our vacancies are based at our London location.
About the job
Job summary
Are you ready to take your leadership skills to the next level and play a key role in transforming our employees' professional growth and experience?
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is the UK’s largest producer of official statistics, covering a range of key economic, social and demographic topics. These include measuring changes in the value of the UK economy, estimating the size, geographic distribution and characteristics of the population, and providing indicators of price inflation, employment, earnings, crime and migration, as well as leading on the publication of vital statistics on life events and health.
Job description
We have a range of exciting leadership roles in our People and Business Services (PBS) directorate; responsible for delivering an ambitious programme of work that ultimately ensures the ONS has the right skills in the right place at the right time to deliver our priority outcomes. These roles will work in partnership with our senior leaders to design and deliver people interventions in areas such as resourcing, reward, strategic workforce planning, employee experience, skills development and policy.
These roles will also be key members of the extended senior leadership team, driving the strategic intent of our ambitious people plan for the organisation, embracing innovative people practices and bringing clear direction, pace and drive to the teams they will be leading.
As a senior member of the HR profession, you will be part of a dynamic and essential team dedicated to supporting and enhancing the organisation's most valuable asset – its people. The HR profession offers a wealth of opportunities for networking, career development, and continuous learning. Whether you are passionate about employee relations, talent acquisition, or organisational development, there is a path for you to make a significant impact.
Join us and be a part of a profession that values innovation, collaboration, and the continuous pursuit of excellence.
Key responsibilities
This is a campaign for a number of senior positions within the PBS directorate across a range of HR disciplines. Examples of key responsibilities across these roles may include:
- Leading, developing and implementing people policies, projects and interventions in line with organisational goals and legal requirements.
- Leading and managing teams of HR professionals, providing guidance, support, and development opportunities.
- Strategic skills development linked to workforce plans to ensure the organisation has the right skills and capabilities to deliver its priority outcomes.
- Partnering with senior leaders and managers to align local people plans and approaches with wider priorities and business objectives.
- Leading an evidence-based approach to our people plan, ensuring we have access to high quality employee data and analytics with clear metrics to assess the effectiveness of our people practices.
- Leading on large programmes of work in a number of HR disciplines ensuring outcomes are clearly aligned with business need.
- Collaborating with senior leadership colleagues to drive positive leadership practices, delivering a small number of high-impact, centrally run initiatives.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Evidenced experience in developing and delivering HR strategies with strong links to business outcomes.
- Strong business partnering and consultancy skills, with the ability to understand wider business objectives and stakeholder needs, working in a systemic and collaborative way.
- Proven experience of influencing a range of colleagues and senior stakeholders with differing drivers, including experience of navigating conflicting views and priorities.
- Demonstrating outcome focused, strategic thinking where you can feed workforce and business needs into people approaches with clear and tangible solutions.
- Strong experience in leading and building diverse teams with differing development needs, particularly through periods of ambiguity and change.
- Excellent operational HR implementation experience.
Desirable criteria
- CIPD (level 7) or willingness to work towards.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Delivering at Pace
- Leadership
- Communicating and Influencing
Benefits
The Office for National Statistics is part of the Civil Service, and as such we share a number of key benefits with other departments, whilst also having our own unique offerings to support our 5400 valued colleagues across the business.
Whether you are hearing about us for the first time or already know a bit about our organisation, we hope that the benefits pack attached (bottom of page) will give you a great insight into the benefits and facilities available to our colleagues, and our fantastic working culture. To learn more about us, and take a virtual tour of our Newport office, check out our YouTube video
Inclusion & Accessibility
At ONS we are always looking to attract the very best people from the widest possible talent pool, and we are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunities employer. As a member of the Business Disability Forum and a Disability Confident Leader we’re committed to ensuring that all candidates are treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
As part of our application process, you will be prompted to provide details of any reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process that you need. If you would like to discuss any reasonable adjustments before applying, please contact the recruitment team in the first instance.
If you would like an accessible version of any of the attachments or recruitment documents below or linked to in this advert, please contact the recruitment team who will be happy to assist.
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Selection process details
Applicants may utilise AI resources in their submissions; ensuring all information provided is factually accurate, truthful, and original, avoiding any form of plagiarism to maintain the authenticity and credibility of the application process.
Security Clearance
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for 3 consecutive years immediately prior to applying.
A lack of UK residency in itself is not always a bar to security clearance but the Department will need to consider eligibility by exception on a case-by-case basis. You will be asked to provide information regarding your UK residency during your application, and failure to provide this will result in your application being rejected.
If you are unsure that you meet the eligibility above, please read the information available at Gov.uk on this link, or contact the recruitment email on the advert before applying to discuss, as failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected and any offer of employment being withdrawn.
At the point of SC application, you will need to provide or give access to the following evidence:
- Departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
- UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
- Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
- Security Services records
Application Stage:
Your CV will be assessed at the application stage, focusing on your work history, skills, and experience. It should provide clear evidence addressing each essential criteria outlined in the person specification. As the criteria is scored, we recommend using specific examples that demonstrate the impact of your actions.
Success Profiles Behaviour examples are not required at this stage.
In cases where there is a high number of applications the sift pass mark may be adjusted and candidates will be invited to interview in merit order, i.e., those scoring the highest.
Assessment and Interview
Interviews will be held in person at the Newport site.
If invited for an interview, you will be required to complete an assessment. This includes a paper-based in-tray exercise, where you'll present your findings to a stakeholder panel. Throughout the assessment and interview, you will be evaluated on the key behaviours outlined in the job advertisement.
One of our vacancies may be based at our London location, therefore only the highest scoring candidate with this preference will be allocated to this site.
A reserve list may be held for a period up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made.
The Sift will be conducted from 22nd November 2024.
Candidates will be invited for interview and assessment at our Newport site, on one of the following dates: 3rd, 4th or 5th December 2024.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : recruitment operations
- Email : RecruitmentOperations@ons.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitmentoperations@ons.gov.uk
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