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🛡️ Verified Employer Direct Placement
HR BUSINESS PARTNER
🏢 Scottish Government
📍 Edinburgh, Scotland
💼 Government
Currency:
£36,297 - £46,000
£3,025 - £3,833 / mo
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Transatlantic Cost of Living & Purchasing Power Benchmark
Location Base
Edinburgh, Scotland
Tier-1 UK Economic Zone
Est. Take-Home Pay
68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)
Single tax filer baseline
Transatlantic Parity
1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard
Direct corporate benchmark
Position Overview & Specifications
Overview:
The role holder will draw on resource from across the People Directorate, and if necessary, from other sources of corporate support in SG and / or external providers.
We are looking for a strategic operator who can quickly build relationships and credibility with senior leaders, as well as an ability to implement and embed a wider HR change programme, tailoring interventions to their business’ needs.
This role can be based from any SG Central Scotland Location.
Responsibilities:
Competencies
Leading Others
Communications and Engagement
Analysis and Use of Evidence
Essential Criteria & Qualifications:
Essential Criteria
1. A strong track record in a senior, strategic HR role with experience of successfully building strong, trusting, influential and effective relationships with senior colleagues, whilst maintaining independence and the ability to constructively challenge.
2. Expertise and experience in supporting operational and strategic workforce planning, e.g. talent management, resource and succession planning etc.
3. An ability to work flexibly, contributing to the planning and delivery of various work strands / projects across a diverse team; using PPM principles to ensure tasks are successfully completed on time & within budget.
4. Experience of taking a consultancy approach, using change management and OD&D tools and techniques and a track record of supporting senior leaders with key strategic people decisions in a VUCA environment.
Additional Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person Specification Band C
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact lorraine.halliday@gov.scot.
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
How to Apply
To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.
In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.
When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.
Please submit your CV and complete the personal statement in the box included, for this role you will also be asked to provide examples against the essential criteria.
The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via ScottishGovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
This role requires the post-holder to lead and embed the people strategy of the wider Scottish Government, as well as provide ongoing support to their business area on HR matters.
The role holder will draw on resource from across the People Directorate, and if necessary, from other sources of corporate support in SG and / or external providers.
We are looking for a strategic operator who can quickly build relationships and credibility with senior leaders, as well as an ability to implement and embed a wider HR change programme, tailoring interventions to their business’ needs.
A working knowledge of employment law including a coaching and CIPD qualification (or willingness to work towards) would also be advantageous in this role.
This role can be based from any SG Central Scotland Location.
Responsibilities:
- Make an active contribution to the development and effective functioning of the HRBP team and as a key collaborator in the work of the wider People Directorate.
- Willing to take an adaptable and flexible approach to work and to supporting colleagues, sharing workloads when appropriate to deliver key corporate priorities.
- Leading and prioritising the delivery of excellent partnership working, valued by SG’s SCS; offering appropriate corporate challenge and support as required.
Support SCS partners to utilise appropriate people interventions to enable Directorates to deliver business effectively. This includes:
Being the principle HR/OD consultant with the business, drawing on people directorate resources in service of supporting clients in effective business delivery.
Leading and supporting effective workforce and resource planning.
Leading and supporting Directors to improve staff engagement, including meaningful use of HR MI and people survey data within the organisation.
Supporting leaders with effective transformation and change management, both from the technical and human perspective.
Supporting Directors and D/D’s to identify and address the capability and skills development that people need within the business.
Supporting consistently good leadership through brokering access to and / or facilitating individual and senior management team development.
Act as a role model and champion diversity and inclusive leadership in all interactions with stakeholders.
Competencies
Leading Others
Communications and Engagement
Analysis and Use of Evidence
Improving Performance
Essential Criteria & Qualifications:
No specific qualifications required.
Essential Criteria
1. A strong track record in a senior, strategic HR role with experience of successfully building strong, trusting, influential and effective relationships with senior colleagues, whilst maintaining independence and the ability to constructively challenge.
2. Expertise and experience in supporting operational and strategic workforce planning, e.g. talent management, resource and succession planning etc.
3. An ability to work flexibly, contributing to the planning and delivery of various work strands / projects across a diverse team; using PPM principles to ensure tasks are successfully completed on time & within budget.
4. Experience of taking a consultancy approach, using change management and OD&D tools and techniques and a track record of supporting senior leaders with key strategic people decisions in a VUCA environment.
Additional Information
For further information on this vacancy please download and review the “Person Specification” which you will find below.
Person Specification Band C
To learn more about this opportunity, please contact lorraine.halliday@gov.scot.
In the event that further posts are required, a reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for up to 12 months.
How to Apply
To apply, you must fully complete and submit an online application via this website before the closing date as well as a CV (no longer than two pages) setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements.
In addition to your CV, you should fill in a personal statement (no longer than 750 words) explaining why you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience suitable for this role, with particular reference to the criteria in the person specification.
When considering how your experience relates to the role, please tailor your CV and personal statement to reflect the role and the essential skills/criteria as described in the job description/person specification.
Please submit your CV and complete the personal statement in the box included, for this role you will also be asked to provide examples against the essential criteria.
The Scottish Government is a diverse and inclusive workplace and we want to help you demonstrate your full potential whatever type of assessment is used. If you require any adjustments to our recruitment process, please let us know via ScottishGovernmentrecruitment@gov.scot
As part of any recruitment process, Scottish Government and associated public bodies collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants and applicants for public appointments.
Personal information you provide in the recruitment process will be made available to Scottish Government and our additional data processors.
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