Strategic People Business Partner

3 months ago


Abingdon, United Kingdom UK Atomic Energy Authority Full time

**Strategic People Business Partner**
Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, GB
Full-time

**Salary**: £56,556 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Confirmed Grade: Level 6
Department: People (HR)

**Company Description**

By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.

Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.

UKAEA leads the way in realizing fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.

As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:

- Outstanding **defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.**:

- Corporate **bonus scheme up to 7%** and a **Relocation** allowance (if eligible).
- **Flexible working options** including family friendly policies.
- **Employee Assistance Programme** and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- **Emergency** paid **leave**, Generous **annual leave allowance** (30.5 days) increased with length of service.
- Wide range of **career development opportunities**.
- A vibrant **culture** committed to equality and being fully **inclusive**.

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 the 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.

**Additional Information**

**Salary**: £56,556.00 per year

Work Location: In person



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