People Operations Officer

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• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford

About the job

Job summary

The Integrated Corporate Services (ICS) is a new shared corporate service, launched in July 2023. It provides corporate services (HR, Finance, Digital, Commercial, Security and Estates) across the Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT). 

Our team of just over 300 professionals will be leading the way in how these functions will be delivered in the future. Our ambition is to be the leading provider of integrated corporate services for government and set the standard for quality, efficiency, and innovation in our field. 

We offer great working benefits including a world-class pension, flexible working options and a career where your learning and development is taken seriously. We are enormously proud to be a Disability Confident Leader employer. We support candidates with adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Information about disability confidence and just some examples of the adjustments that you can request can be found in the reasonable adjustment section below. 

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found.

To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy. 

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You can also follow our LinkedIn Careers Page: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/desnz-careers/ 

Job description

The Role and Our Team

Join ICS Digital, where innovation meets expertise to create digital solutions. We are a cohesive digital community who work in the open, solving problems together and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration. Our commitment to user-focused design and data-driven decision-making ensures that we deliver accessible services tailored to the needs of our customers.

The team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the People and Development (P&D) team, we are a small people team that sits within ICS Digital providing people related services, such as recruitment, workforce planning, capability, and rewards. We are looking for an HR professional to provide support our services. 

Visit our blog to learn more about us and our work: https://icsdigital.blog.gov.uk/ 

Person specification

Key Responsibilities

You will need to have great attention to detail and be an effective communicator. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across teams to resolve HR-related issues. You will be methodical, ensuring that your work is error-free and prioritised effectively.

Recruitment: Manage recruitment campaigns, including submitting relevant forms, managing the inbox, and communicating with candidates. 

Onboarding: Ensure all onboarding actions for new starters are complete, such as sending the induction pack, and adding new starters to the distribution list. 

Workforce Data Management: Update the Directorate’s database and organogram, and provide support with Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and commissions. 

Communications: Support Directorate-wide communications, such as staff updates and newsletters.

Administrative Support : Provide administrative support in all people-related areas.

Skills and Experience

Essential criteria:

• Experience with administration of recruitment campaigns, preferably in the public sector. 
• Attention to detail, particularly when working with data. 
• Ability to use your own initiative to resolve issues.
• Experience managing competing priorities. 
• Associate CIPD membership or willing to work towards within the first 6 months of starting the role.
• Proactively manage your personal development and identify skills gaps.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience working in a digital or technology environment.

It is unusual that all candidates will meet all the desirable criteria. If your skills and experience look slightly different from what we have identified and you think you can bring value to the People Operations Officer role and the team, we strongly encourage you to apply. We’d love to hear from you!

Please, no recruitment agencies.

Memberships

Associate CIPD membership or equivalent, or willing to study towards.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Managing a Quality Service
• Developing Self and Others
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £28,915, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £8,376 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero offers a competitive mix of benefits including:

• A culture of flexible working, such as job sharing, homeworking and compressed hours.
• Automatic enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme, with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by 1 day per year up to a maximum of 30.
• An extensive range of learning & professional development opportunities, which all staff are actively encouraged to pursue.
• Access to a range of retail, travel and lifestyle employee discounts.

Office attendance

The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Penelope Kopala
• Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

• Email : [email protected]

Further information

Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the recruitment principles, and wish to make a complaint, then you should contact in the first instance [email protected]. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints

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