About the job

Summary

Diverse perspectives and experiences are critical to our success and we welcome applications from all people from all backgrounds with the experience and skills needed to perform this role. We look forward to receiving your application

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 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and places - we save lives and we are highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.

Why we’re recruiting

HSE is maturing its approach to managing and delivering change to enable the delivery of our ambitious roadmap of transformation and we’re building a team of change, project management and delivery professionals to support this work. We are leading on a number of cross-government, multi agency programmes in addition to a series of internal transformational initiatives: from establishing a new Building Safety Regulator to a post EU exit Chemicals regulation regime. We’re designing new digital services to transform the way we deliver services and regulate, enabling new operating models, and transitioning to agile methods of development and delivery.

The team we’re building

We are seeking a range of project managers, change and business improvement managers, business analysts and subject matter specialists to work alongside a wider community of delivery partners and operational teams. Delivery partners range from top tier consulting houses to SMEs focused on digital innovation. You will work alongside Digital, Data and Technology professionals as well as operational and subject matter experts from HSE divisions. We’re seeking change agents who relish the opportunity to lead in a rapidly maturing environment.

Job description

The role of the Resource support is to support the resource function in defining the people resources required for a project at different stages, and to identify, recruit, deploy, flex and develop those resources to support successful delivery - across the Portfolio. The resource manager works closely with the Resource Manager and delivery teams to ensure resource requirements are met.

Responsibilities

Resource Strategy and Planning - work alongside projects and programmes to implement planned resource strategies for the project, in line with project requirements and standards. Likely to be focused on recruitment and allocation of internal resources.

Stakeholder Management - engage with stakeholders on resource management requirements alongside the project and programme teams.

Analytics and Reporting - collect and analyse data to report on Project Resource and Capability and Performance activities. Highlight key resourcing and capability risks. Support the use of resource management tools in projects.

Capability Management - collect timely and accurate data to report on Project Resource and Capability activities, planned or otherwise, on a regular basis to local or departmental teams. Highlight key resourcing and capability risks. Support the use of resource management tools in projects.

Recruitment - ensure provisions are made for onboarding all new project and change practitioners joining the team

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role

• An environment with flexible working options

• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity

We invest in our people with;

• Competitive rates of pay

• Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1%, far more than in the private sector.

• Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career

• 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave

• Parental leave benefits: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

Experience - essential

Experience of agile and PRINCE2 project management methodologies

Experience of working in a dynamic project environment

Experience of stakeholder engagement, establishing relationships with Project Managers on resource management requirements.

Experience of data analysis, interpretating complex data sets and translating to simple terms.

Significant experience of Microsoft Office suite including an advanced command of Excel.

Experience of developing or contributing towards performance reports

Experience - desirable

Agile or Prince 2 accredited or equivalent

Experience of resource planning and scheduling

Experience of recruitment and onboarding