Job Details

• £33.22 an hour (umbrella)

Key responsibilities

• To undertake and co-ordinate HR projects on any topic related to the Council’s workforce strategy and HR service delivery to meet the Council’s business needs. This could include policy development, procurement, employee engagement initiatives or digitalisation projects across the HR team.
• Develop HR programmes of work to support activity across the HR team designed to deliver the Council’s workforce strategy, meeting current and anticipated future people related business needs.
• Managing the project to deliver agreed outputs, ensuring they remain aligned to business and team strategy, are within the original scope and on target.
• Managing internal teams to deliver project obligations to time and to budget by developing relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Identify, plan for and manage to resolution project risks, issues and dependencies, including timely escalation in an appropriate manner and contingency planning when required. Analyse people related data and provide appropriate analysis.
• Develop plans for undertaking systematic research against specific research briefs to contribute to significant and complex workforce programmes, identifying, interpreting and analysing appropriate sources of data or information to meet the research needs.
• Plan the co-ordination and monitoring of the general HR work programme, including planning and organising the identification of resources required to undertake specific projects including access to resources from outside the HR team.
• Ensure effective communication of the project aims, objectives, processes and issues to all internal and external bodies involved in the projects.
• Evaluate progress against project plans, where required taking remedial action to ensure project milestones are achieved, advising senior HR staff where milestones cannot be met.
• Prepare and present reports including recommendations, for Senior Managers on outcomes of research, project plans and monitoring as well as proposals linked to delivery of the Councils workforce strategy as well as options for future developments in workforce related areas.
• Promoting the projects and communicating updates to internal colleagues via HR stand up meetings and all other internal communications channels.

Resources and Financial management

Ensure effective Financial Management, cost controls and income maximisation in an ever changing environment, fluctuating demands and priorities. Ensure resources are well managed and effectively deployed to the best possible effects assuring value for money in all activities.

Compliance

Ensure legal, regulatory and policy compliance under GDPR, Health and Safety and in area of your specialism identifying opportunities and risks and escalating where appropriate.

Work style

Flexible

Person specification

You should demonstrate on your application form how you meet the essential criteria.  Please ensure that you address each of the criteria as this will be assessed to determine your suitability for the post.

Essential criteria

Qualifications

Experience

Skills