Early Careers

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

- 243344**Salary**:

- £34,369**Grade**:

- Higher Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- UKHO - People**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Human Resources
- Other**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Somerset, South WestAbout the job

**Summary**:

- This exciting new role has been created to expand and grow the work undertaken to date to ensure UKHO is an employer of choice. We are looking for a creative, passionate, and driven team player to join our People division to lead our Early Careers schemes and develop our strategy, helping us to continue to attract talent and build our capability for the future.
- The role requires someone who has the ability to communicate with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. This role is responsible for leading the agenda on early careers, developing the strategy to continue to drive the business forward. Supporting with identifying future skills requirements and continuing to grow our apprenticeship offering.**Job description**:

- This role is part of the Learning & Development team. The role will have responsibility to manage our early careers and apprenticeship schemes. Engaging with other government departments and local employers/colleges/schools to ensure UKHO is an employer of choice.
- Manage the day-to-day providers for our apprenticeship schemes. Work with the business, HR business partners and resource team to understand future skill demands and early talent programmes.
- Undertake outreach work within the local area and attending careers fairs to support building a pipeline for the future talent.-
**Responsibilities**:

- Champion the UKHO as an employer of choice and promote the ongoing development and implementation of the Early Careers Strategy both internally and externally.
- Develop our overall strategy for early careers/apprenticeship including building our future talent pipeline
- Ensure the UKHO Apprenticeship strategy fits with the Public Sector Apprenticeship Strategy and links to the UKHO Workforce Plan/People Strategy- Maintain/Manage the Digital Apprenticeship Account, regularly provide management information to MOD and internal stakeholders
- Representation UKHO at cross-government working groups in relation to Early Careers, Apprenticeships**Things you need to know**
- This role is open to full time, part time, job share. The UKHO will consider flexible working or workplace adjustments, where appropriate.

The role will be contractually based at our office in Taunton. We have embraced hybrid working, recognising it is about what you bring to the role and deliver, not where you work from.
- Based on the individual needs of your role, you may need to be in the office. Please discuss in more detail with the hiring manager to understand the needs of this role.**Pay**

Further information can be found in the attached Document “Additional Pay Information”.**SC - non reserved**

This is a Ministry of Defence non-reserved post and although open to UK, British Commonwealth and European Economic Area nationals, successful applicants will require a security clearance (SC) and therefore need to have resided in the UK for a minimum of 12 consecutive months within the last 5 years.**Nationality Statement**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Managing a Quality Service

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Experience of successfully implementing an Early Careers Strategy

**Benefits**:

- We offer a range of benefits to support your lifestyle, including generous leave allowances, flexible working hours, a lift-share scheme, enrolment in the Civil Service Pension scheme, and regular training and development opportunities.
- We operate from a brand new state of the art, award-winning building with an onsite gym, cafeteria, and state of the art meeting rooms; a Chaplaincy service; and an Employee Assistance Programme. We have several internal networks available for you to join, including: Mental Health Group, STEM Ambassadors, Woman’s Network, Pride Network and Disabilities group. Travelling to UKHO onsite parking, electric car charging ports, and cycle-to-work scheme are available.
- Full-time employees receive 26.5 days annual leave per year, increasing to 31.5 days annual leave after five years’ service (pro-rata for part-time employees).
- We offer many flexible working options. These include: a flexible working hours scheme with up to two days per month Flexi leave, remote working, part-time working, job sharing, paid special leave, career breaks, and unpaid leave. We want you to feel part of