People Solutions Manager - 1 year FTC

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21 Feb 2025
21 Feb 2025
Teddington, United Kingdom
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Starting from £50,196 - Depending on experience
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People Solutions Manager - 1 year FTC

About the Role
NPL is the UK's National Metrology Institute. Our role is to research, create and deliver the measurement infrastructure, which underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life across many fields of industry.

If you have employee engagement and communication experience and the drive to make a positive difference for people at work, this People Solution Manager role may be the next career step for you.

In this varied and busy role, you will ensure feedback channels are working well and views from our people are being heard and acted upon, working closely with our internal People Council. You will provide ongoing expertise to our Strategic People Partners who work together with our leaders to create, communicate, and deliver compelling local engagement plans.

Interrogating and understanding engagement data is vital to shape discussions, working closely with the leadership team to drive positive changes at an organisational level. Using this data, you will play a key role in developing and implementing strategies to support the wellbeing of staff while sustainably delivering company objectives.

Working as part of the wider People Solutions Team, you will support communication of strategic people initiatives, collating views to inform discussions and sharing outcomes. Working collaboratively with subject matter experts, you will provide communications expertise to a range of projects, which include (but are not limited to) learning and development, career progression, diversity and inclusion, and recognition.

To give you a taste of the role, if you were on board already, you would be:

Actively championing ‘employee voice’ taking the lead on our ‘always on’ employee feedback platform, Thymometrics and our communications & engagement working groups

Working closely with of People Council lead to shape discussions and set the agenda

Supporting the planning and delivery of targeted engagement activities, communications, reporting, and presenting results and recommendations to our leadership team

Taking an evidence-based and insight-led approach to enabling individual and organisational wellbeing, driving the delivery of our Wellbeing Strategy

Working collaboratively with the People Solutions team to develop and deliver communications on our current strategic projects.

Forging strong partnerships and engaging stakeholders across the organisation

Line managing 2 People Solutions colleagues
About You
To succeed in this position, you should have experience working in an employee engagement role in a complex and agile organisation. You should also understand best practices for managing employee engagement, a good understanding of workplace wellbeing programmes, and excellent communication and influencing skills to motivate and engage all stakeholders articulately. An ability to think creatively and to pick up technology quickly is also essential. Line management experience is preferable but not essential.

NPL offers competitive rewards and benefits. Flexible working and social activities are embedded in our culture to creative a positive work-life balance. Please see our careers website for more information.

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert therefore we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance. Some departments may require a higher level of security clearance.
About Us
- The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is a world-leading centre of excellence that provides cutting-edge measurement science, engineering and technology to underpin prosperity and quality of life in the UK. Find out more about what it is like working here -The measure of us - Overview
  
  NPL and DSIT have strong commitments to diversity and equality of opportunity, and welcome applications from candidates irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, or age, providing they meet the required criteria. Applications from women, disabled and black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in particular are encouraged. All disabled candidates (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) who satisfy the minimum criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
  
  At NPL, we believe our success is a result of the diversity and talent of our people. We strive to nurture and respect individuals to ensure everyone feels valued by treating everyone on the basis of their own individual merits and abilities regardless of their own or perceived identity, as part of our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we ensure we’re creating an environment where all our colleagues feel supported and welcome. More about this on our Diversity & Inclusion page.
  
  We are committed to the health and well-being of our employees. Flexible working and social activities are embedded in our culture to create a positive work-life balance, along with a broad range of rewards, benefits and recognition. Our values are at the heart of what we do, and they shape the way we interact, develop our people and celebrate success. To ensure everyone has an equal chance, we’re always willing to make reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. If you would like to discuss, please contact us.