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HR Business Partner - Great British Energy (GBE)

  • Public sector
  • Aberdeen
  • 14/04/2025
  • £55,105.00 - £62,475.00 /yearly
  • Permanent
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Job Overview

Location

Aberdeen

Job Type

Permanent

Salary

£55,105 - £62,475 yearly

Date Posted:

14/04/2025

Expiration date:

04/05/2025

Additional Detail

Job ID

24278

Work Location

Remote and/or Onsite

Job Description

About the Organisation: 

Great British Energy will be a publicly owned, operationally independent energy company, designed to drive clean energy deployment, boost energy independence, create jobs and ensure U K taxpayers, billpayers and communities reap the benefits of clean, secure, homegrown energy. Setting up Great British Energy is one of government's first steps for change and we will do this in a way that means it will have both an early impact and long-term success.

Through its five functions (Project development, Project investment, Local Power Plan, Supply chains and Great British Nuclear), Great British Energy will speed up the deployment of mature and new technologies, as well as local energy projects, to support the government's aim of decarbonising our electricity system by 2030 whilst also ensuring we can meet future demand as we further decarbonise the economy.  

To this end and as an example of what it can achieve, we have already agreed a major partnership between Great British Energy and The Crown Estate to accelerate deployment and support U K supply chains. 

Great British Energy will work collaboratively with industry, local authorities and communities, and other public sector organisations such as the National Wealth Fund, to spread skilled jobs and investment across the country. Great British Energy will be backed by a capitalisation of £8.3 billion of new money over this Parliament.  

In recognition of Scotland's leading role in the UK's clean energy revolution, Great British Energy will be headquartered and run from Scotland.  

More details can be found in the Great British Energy founding statement. 

Job overview

This is an exciting time to join Great British Energy - as it is a new organisation that will require the post-holder to be involved in creating a HR function and its people agenda. The role will involve acting as the key HR strategic business partner to GBE Executive Team, helping to develop and delivery HR plans and solutions in line with the needs of the organisation.
 
You will provide expertise and advice across a range of strategic people priorities including strategic workforce planning, talent management, diversity and inclusion, overseeing complex HR casework and change management and HR policies. The GBE HR Function will be a highly motivated, dynamic and close-knit HR team, committed to excellent HR expertise, applying a can-do approach and developing solutions through a customer focused lens to GBE senior leaders and staff.

Person specification

  • Partner with GBE CEO and executive leaders to provide constructive challenge and tailored strategic advice that enables them to deliver their business outcomes through their people.
  • Delivering key HR initiatives across the HR spectrum, including workforce planning, restructuring, resourcing, talent management, pay and reward, employee relations, employee engagement and performance management.
  • Develop and embed reliable and trusted workforce plans which are managed within headcount and budget, recommending effective and innovative resourcing solutions.
  • Support talent management initiatives that develop the pipeline into all levels of the organisation.
  • Be an advocate for D&I, ensuring the strategy is embedded, action plans are in place and that leaders are champions of inclusivity.
  • Act as a change agent to ensure that the transition of GBE from DESNZ is supported with robust people change plans and that future change programmes within GBE have support on any people engagement plans and alignment with organisational priorities.
  • Advise senior leaders on complex HR casework with potential for reputational damage or significant disruption to business delivery.
  • Working as an active ambassador for GBE; exploring new and innovative ways to solving challenges and seeking new opportunities in the way we work and how we can do things differently.
  • Identifying HR priorities, translating business requirements into effective HR practices and delivering people solutions aligned to business objectives.
  • Acting as part of the wider HR function, to ensure delivery where needed and being a team-player willing to step in across the function to ensure excellent customer service and delivery.

Essential Criteria 

We would love to hear from you if you are a self-starter who is:

  • Collaborative in their approach and able to demonstrate good judgement in a fast-paced environment.
  • You will have excellent interpersonal skills, remain calm under pressure and be able to build credible and sustainable working relationships across a variety of stakeholders.
  • You will be organised, able to diagnose issues and be inventive in finding solutions.
  • Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) qualified or studying towards a CIPD qualification is essential.

Desirable Criteria 

  • You will also ideally have previous experience in HR Business Partnering, or of working on complex HR and Change projects with transferable skills.

Behaviours

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

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Working Together
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Changing and Improving

We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:

  • Delivering at Pace
  • Working Together

Alongside your salary of £55,105, Department for Energy Security & Net Zero contributes £15,963 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.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, a personal statement, and behavioural statements. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form.

Please use your personal statement (in no more than 750 words) to write about your HR Business Partnering expertise and the relevant skills and experience you have in leading complex people change.

Applications will be sifted on behavioural statements, CV, and personal statement.

In the event of a large number of applicants, applications will be sifted on the personal statement.

Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift, or progressed straight to assessment/interview.

The interview will consist of behaviour questions.

Sift and interview dates to be confirmed. 

Further Information

Reasonable Adjustments

We are proud to be a disability confident leader and we welcome applications from disabled candidates and candidates with long-term conditions. 

Information about the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and some examples of adjustments that we offer to disabled candidates and candidates with long-term health conditions during our recruitment process can be found in our DESNZ Candidate Guidance. A DESNZ Plain Text Version of the guidance is also available. 

We encourage candidates to discuss their adjustment needs by emailing the job contact which can be found under the contact point for applicants section. 

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section. 

If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.

A location based reserve list of successful candidates will be kept for 12 months. Should another role become available within that period you may be offered this position.

Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

Any move to the Department for Energy, Security and Net Zero  from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare; for further information visit the Childcare Choices website.

DESNZ does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home). 

DESNZ cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DESNZ holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.

However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing [email protected] stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email [email protected]

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant's details held on the IFD will be refused employment. 

A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Feedback

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
 
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
 
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
 
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

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 (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
 
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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).
 
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact

Recruitment team

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

Attachments

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