People Policy Adviser

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Department for International Trade Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 257492**Salary**:

- £25,661 - £31,003- National: £25,661-£27,422; London: £29,282-£31,003**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DIT - COO: Human Resources**Type of role**:

- Human Resources
- Policy**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The role sits within the Pay, Policy and Reward team within the HR Function. The team supports the departmental objectives set out in the Outcome Delivery Plan (ODP) as DIT seeks to attract and retain great people in the UK and Overseas with the right skills, experience and capability to deliver an ambitious trade and investment agenda. We work closely with stakeholders to meet the changing needs of our people and DIT as an employer by:

- Making sure our advice and services are user friendly and easy to access
- Providing clear, concise HR policies
- Directly supporting our wider approach to employee engagement

Our key objective is to support the organisation and our people. We aim to ensure our service provides timely and accurate information for users, supporting DIT to deliver departmental priorities.

The role will support the Policy Team with administrative tasks, including handling policy queries on a wide variety of topics including Performance Development, Maternity and Conflicts of Interest. The role will also provide critical support on designing policy intranet pages and reviewing policies in line with user needs. There will be opportunities to develop policies and contribute to a more creative approach to policymaking and assist the pay team when required.

The role holder will work to the HEO People Policy Advisor, supporting policy returns/papers, updating key stakeholders of progress and developments, utilising best practice and effective communication styles.

**Job description**:
The role will include:

- Answering a range of sometimes complex policy queries, providing the escalation support for the HR Advisory Service and ad-hoc HRBP support, as well as exploring ongoing upskilling opportunities
- Designing policy intranet pages to deliver key messages in a user-friendly and accessible way
- Supporting the development of new and existing people policies for use across the organisation, based on user feedback from stakeholders across DIT
- Working with the Policy Team to consider policy making in a more creative way, e.g. video bites, animations, etc
- Drafting business returns/papers on key policy areas, working with colleagues across HR and the business to obtain data and submit returns/papers in a timely fashion
- Assisting the Pay team with ad hoc queries.

**Hybrid working**

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Informal hybrid working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in an office, on average. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Strong verbal and written communication skills - an ability to draft clear, concise and impactful policies, briefings and intranet pages
- Demonstrated ability to work with a range of stakeholders.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Customer-facing experience
- HR experience
- Experience of conducting research

**Personal Attributes & Skills**
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- An ability to work independently under own initiative

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Changing and Improving
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together

**Benefits**:

- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Ability and Experience.Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.

Sift will take place week commencing 09/01/2023.

Interviews will take place week commencing 16/01/2023.

Please align your CV with previous skills and experience. Maximum of 1 A4 pages.

In your personal statement:

- Please describe a time when you have challenged the usual way of doing things to make things easier for the customer or for fellow colleagues. Maximum word count of 250.
- Please describe a situation when you were responsible for bringing people together to work on a project or piece of work. Maximum

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