UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Hiring for Strategic Workforce Planning Lead at Didcot Full Time

Role Purpose:
To identify and make recommendations to address both current and potential future workforce issues at UKRI and Council/Department level, through provision of expertise, data, models and advice to support leadership decision making.

Key Accountabilities:
HR Leadership Community

Work together with HR colleagues to ensure that ‘One HR’ culture is role modelled and ensure that HR initiatives and proposed changes are prioritised, appropriate, well planned and well delivered.

Workforce Plan & Toolkit

Create workforce plans that sustain the current and future delivery of UKRI services and adheres to national statutory requirements and correlates to the relevant strategic, service and financial plans

Promote and support HRBPs and business leaders in their local workforce planning activity, supporting them in using the workforce planning tool kit, providing expertise, facilitation and analytical support, and ensuring themes and issues are linked to into the UKRI picture

Lead in widening use of the workforce planning toolkit – developing and delivering training, influencing and coaching users, and evolving the toolkit to incorporate wider analysis and themes as its use extends and understanding and engagement matures

Own the framework and processes relating to the workforce element of the annual budget-planning cycle and work with Finance to ensure workforce plans and templates correlate to agreed financial plans and templates to improve efficiency

Work closely with HR colleagues to ensure that the workforce plans inform local planning activities, reflect and drive towards organisational aspirations for a diverse and inclusive workforce, and inform internal and external reporting requirements.

Workforce Modelling

Contribute to the talent team’s ownership of modelling current and future workforce requirements, labour market and talent scenarios, in order to enable better understanding of workforce make up and capability, to identify trends and benchmarking data, to provide in-depth analysis of talent cohorts, in order to ensure the most effective internal and external talent approaches are adopted.

Workforce Research & Analysis

Provide workforce research and analysis expertise to major change programmes, ensuring that a workforce plan and associated workforce implications are defined for each programme, and that this translates effectively into business objectives

As SME commission workforce data analysis (internally and externally) and use understanding of people data to identify trends in complex datasets, translate management information into business insight, and support and influence HRBPs and business leaders with strategic decision making in workforce planning initiatives.

Project Management

Manage a range of strategic workforce planning projects, ensuring that all initiatives are prioritized and delivered with impact and pace, following recognized portfolio, programme and project management methods.

Reporting & MI

Work with the MI team to establish effective workforce data processes to fulfil requirements for workforce planning activity/reporting that meet Government regulatory workforce reporting, Councils/Departments and UKRI reporting

Collaborate with the data/MI team to ensure workforce data processes are fit for purpose and that commissions are deconflicted with routine data production

Provide SME input to the future technology programme (SHARP) to ensure that workforce planning requirements and incorporated into the scope and overall requirements for the future systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:
CIPD membership and/or equivalent relevant professional experience

In depth knowledge and experience of successfully developing and implementing strategic workforce planning in a complex organisational environment/diverse and specialist staff groups

Experience of creating and influencing development of strategic workforce planning through horizon scanning, making connections, innovating and pragmatically shaping evolving solutions, staying curious and creative

Demonstrable collaboration skills, and experience of influencing stakeholders and decision makers

Experience in using data and analytics to bring new insight, demonstrate impact and return on investment

Strong communication skills (in writing, presentation etc) and able to communicate complex information concisely and clearly

Demonstrable experience of managing and prioritising multiple change management and project management workstreams.

If you experience any issues applying, please contact [email protected]

About UKRI

Launched in April 2018, UKRI is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

Our organisation brings together the seven disciplinary research councils, Research England, which is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutions in England, and the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, and a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation. More information can be found at www.ukri.org.

How we support EDI in the workforce

At UKRI we believe that everyone has a right to be treated with dignity and respect, and to be provided with equal opportunities to flourish and succeed in an environment that enables them to do so. We also value diversity of thought and experience within inclusive groups, organisations and the wider community. For further information, please visit ‘How we support EDI in the workforce’

Disability Confident Employer

As participants of the Disability Confident employer scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy.

For more information on this scheme, click here.

How to Apply

Online applications only preferred for this role. Please submit your CV and a covering letter which clearly outlines how you fulfil the criteria specified along with your motivation for UKRI and the role you’re applying for. Ensure that the job reference number is included in the filename description of each document uploaded. Note that failure to address the above criteria or submit your application without a covering letter may result in your application not being considered. You will only be assessed on the content of your CV and covering letter and not the ‘experience’ section of the application.

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