Senior HR Business Partner
Office for Students - Bristol, South West
Full-time
Salary: £63,386.00 - £69,444.00 Annually Plus generous civil service defined benefit pension
Application Deadline: Feb 11, 2024
About us
The Office for Students (OfS) is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. Our aim is to ensure that every student, whatever their background, has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers. We do this by regulating the higher education providers on our register to make sure they are delivering high quality courses and positive outcomes for their students; where they are not, we take action.
Purpose of the job
The Senior HRBP role is a critical in ensuring that the HR function delivers a professional and high-quality service which supports the delivery of the organisation’s strategic aims and objectives.
The role will be instrumental in shaping and executing the new people strategy for the Office for Students, taking a lead role on complex policy development and being instrumental in driving forward operational excellence, ensuring the HR team work effectively with a focus on continuous improvement.
About you
You will be required to think strategically and demonstrate a broad view of issues and activities that will inform longer term planning and people solutions.
The post holder will work with a broad range of stakeholders, including DfE, directors, senior colleagues, trade unions, and the wider HR team to enhance and add value to business performance.
The key person attributes to fulfil this role are:
Essential
Experience of business partnering at a senior level
Strategic thinker demonstrating a broad-based depth of knowledge of HR and people issues and their potential impact
Complex HR policy development & implementation experience and an understanding of what it means to work with TUs
Stakeholder management and facilitation skills and the ability to quickly build trusting and effective relationships with customers.
Coaching capability and style.
Experience of project delivery in HR
Desirable
MCIPD qualified
Experience in coaching
Key responsibilities
Providing a professional and proactive HR service to enable the delivery of the business strategy. You will have a clear understanding of organisational priorities, context and culture and demonstrate this within the development of HR policies, processes, and activities to drive a high performing organisation.
You will play a leadership role in enabling business change and improvement, ensuring consistent adoption and adherence of programs, policies, and procedures across the business.
You will business partner with senior leaders in the organisation and across projects to ensure that business challenges are understood, and strategies are put in place that bring together people practices and high performance.
You will take a leadership role in implementing and supporting the delivery of the people strategy across the employee lifecycle, working closely with the HR functions to ensure that HR activities are coordinated and planned. You will ensure people risks are identified and managed utilising a risk-based approach.
You will ensure there is continuous improvement across the HR function, by ensuring HR activities are evaluated and improved in line with priorities, considering HR best practice and evidence from management information.
You will play a key role in strategic workforce planning, with a focus on the long-term needs of the organisation, working closely with the wider HR team to build solutions.
You will lead and coach senior managers/ directors and HRBPs on high-risk employment casework.
You will play a key role developing organisational and people capability by supporting, coaching and mentoring on people activities.
Leading and managing a team to best meet the needs of an agile organisation, you will act as a strong role model ensuring the effective development of the team to deliver a high quality and effective service with a focus on continuous improvement.
You will support business planning for the HR function to ensure delivery alongside the organisation's business plan
Working for us
The OfS regulates the higher education sector on behalf of all students. We value diversity and the wealth of perspectives, experience and ideas that it brings to our work, and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age, disability, race and ethnicity, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.
Working arrangements
Flexibility is important to the OfS, as we recognise that it can enable people to work more effectively. A set of organisation-wide principles shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working, which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two to three days in a typical week.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants, flexible working, for example job share and part-time working, applies to the role.
Closing date for applications: 11 February 2024
Interviews: From 26 February 2024