Workforce Planning Officer

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to deliver a best practice approach to strategic workforce planning for HM Treasury? If so, we'd love to hear from you!

About the Team

We are looking to recruit a Workforce Planning Officer which sits within the Corporate Centre Group (CCG) of the People & Capability Team. The Corporate Centre Group delivers a wide range of corporate services to enable people at HM Treasury and many of the other organisations who form part of the Treasury Group (including the Government Internal Audit Agency and the Debt Management Office) to operate effectively and efficiently. We are a diverse group, both in terms of our professions and in our ways of working. Our colleagues are based across 3 sites in London, Darlington and Norwich.

People & Capability is HM Treasury’s people function and provides a range of services which support the department’s People Objectives.

The Workforce Planning and People Strategy team is a newly formed and friendly team of 8 which is responsible for the Treasury’s People Strategy, leads workforce planning for the department, and carries out analysis of our people data. The team works with colleagues across People & Capability, building strong relationships and taking a strategic, coordinating view. The team engages with colleagues and communities across the Treasury from our staff networks to senior leaders, a great way to add new connections to our professional networks.

About the Job

In this role, you will:

1.      Support the Workforce Planning team in optimising and implementing an approach to data which delivers integrated dashboards between various people systems and provide key insights which enables the organisation to take an evidence-based approach to decisions and actions that impact our people.

2.      Track progress on Diversity and Inclusion targets and identify workforce priorities.

3.      Work collaboratively across People and Capability and HMT to identify improvements and innovation opportunities that will align to our workforce plan and support our longer-term vision.

4.      Support the development of communications and tools/guidance about workforce levers for different audiences.

5.      Lead on day-to-day workforce planning admin processes, including requests for data, managing the WFP inbox, meeting arrangements and forward planning, and coordinating monthly and quarterly workforce data to key stakeholders.

6.      Lead on the end-to-end process of the reallocation of temporary and permanent resource, which includes stakeholder management and managing an exceptions process.

7.      Support our commitment to increasing and maintaining our presence in Darlington. You will lead on our relocations package and provide end-to-end support to individuals during the relocation transitional period. You will carry out regular assessment of grade mix and skills gaps through the proactive analysis and supply of Darlington headcount data, as well as other associated initiatives to support with the resourcing and retention of staff at our Darlington location.

8.      Support with the creation, coordination and reviewing of workforce plans.

9.      Support with written and oral workforce planning updates to various governance boards.

10.  Support will ad-hoc workforce planning tasks and initiatives as directed by the Head of Workforce Planning.

About You

The successful candidate will have the ability to work independently to handle a busy workload and effectively manage competing deadlines and priorities. You will work with others to identify areas for improvement and simplify processes to use fewer resources. Use technology where possible to increase efficiency. Clearly explain the reasons for change to colleagues and how to implement them, supporting individuals with different needs to adapt to change. You’ll analyse and use a range of relevant, credible information from internal and external sources to support decisions. Invite challenge and where appropriate involve others in decision making. Present strong recommendations in a timely manner outlining the consideration of other options, costs, benefits and risks.

Some of the Benefits our people love!

·      25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month

·      Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)

·      Generous parental and adoption leave packages

·      Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 28%

·      Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances

·      A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity (e.g. women in the Treasury, ethnic minority network, LGBT* network, faith and belief network)

If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.