Job Description

Science and Technology Facilities Council

Salary: 56,745 to 63,051 per annum

Band: UKRI Band F

Contract Type: Fixed Term (12 months)

Hours: Full-time/ Part Time (minimum 0.8 FTE) (flexible working available)

Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon / Daresbury Laboratory, Cheshire - Hybrid working available

Closing Date: 12

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October 2025

About the role

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Two 12-month opportunities exist for HR Strategic Business Partners to partner with senior leaders in the Science and Technology Facilities Council developing and directing an HR agenda that closely supports organisational and business goals and builds organisational and people capabilities. These opportunities have arisen as STFC embarks on a Transformation Programme requiring additional resource to join the STFC HR business partnering team.


The roles will support the development of local people strategy and, with the support of HR community and centres of expertise, deploy appropriate processes and solutions throughout the business.


The roles will be based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire or at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire although travel to all STFC UK sites will be required on a regular basis.



Whilst hybrid working is encouraged, the roles would normally be on-site at least 3 days per week.

Your responsibilities:

Developing trusted partnering relationships with leaders/managers, building professional credibility and mutual trust. Supporting leaders/managers in navigating business transformation and culture change activities through providing advice, challenge, coaching and being 'a critical friend' across their access to and use of the full range of HR services. With the HR Operations team, ensuring effective HR service delivery to managers and employees, meeting regularly to review themes arising from queries, requests, casework and campaigns; and address any issues, complaints or ideas arising. Developing and delivering a programme of interventions to ensure that current and future skill/capability requirements are captured and prioritised as part of the skills strategy and incorporated into learning and development programmes. Providing challenge, suggestions and interventions for restructuring, improved ways of working, team effectiveness, productivity and morale, and changing working practices - sharing insights and drawing in the centres of expertise support for local managers/leaders as required. Supporting the rollout of new initiatives (eg workforce planning, performance management, leadership and learning), engaging effectively with leaders/managers to ensure their buy-in to the changes, and delivery against UKRI and local objectives. Overseeing the development and delivery of people related planning initiatives (eg workforce and budget plans, risk registers) to ensure the agenda is understood and debated by managers/leaders. With Resourcing and HR Operations, ensure effective attraction/selection/hiring, appointment, redeployment, secondment, exit and termination. Supporting the delivery and local implementation of the annual HR business lifecycle and manage the local deployment of reward and performance management to deliver alignment and compliance. Supporting the development of local people management capability, working with colleagues in HR Operations to ensure access to good advice and encourage adoption of self-service. Maintaining oversight of local employee relations cases to ensure that risk profile is understood, cases are consistently resolved, root causes identified and tackled, and that escalated cases are concluded satisfactorily. Analysing and gathering insight from HR data, surveys and other feedback to monitor and report on KPIs, to diagnose issues/trends/concerns, ensuring that mitigations/plans are in place and escalating as necessary. Creating and delivering HR programmes to embed initiatives, support cultural and behavioural change and deliver transformation projects of varying scope. Providing MI on projects/initiatives, giving the appropriate risk assurance to stakeholders. Supporting the local delivery of a range of UKRI HR projects and programmes, ensuring that initiatives are prioritized and delivered with impact and pace, follow recognized portfolio, programme and project management methods, consider all people implications, opportunities and risks, and deliver agreed people benefits. Line Management responsibilities for one or more team members

Personal Specification

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The below criteria will be scored during Shortlisting (S), Interview (I) or both (S&I).

Essential

CIPD membership and/or University Degree or equivalent relevant professional experience (S) In depth knowledge and experience of successfully leading in a variety of HR roles in complex organisational environments/specialist workforces (including demonstrable organisational development experience) (I) Experience in developing local people focused interventions (set within an overarching HR strategy and frameworks) that support performance management, talent, leadership and capability development, workforce planning, recruitment, behaviour and culture change. (S&I) Demonstrable collaboration skills, and experience of influencing stakeholders and decision makers (S&I) Experience in using data and analytics to bring new insight, demonstrate impact and return on investment. (I) Strong influencing and communication skills with experience of empowering diverse teams to drive change, engagement and capability development, inclusion and diversity. (S&I) Experience of managing and prioritising multiple change management and project management workstreams (S&I) Experience of leading and developing individuals and small teams (S&I)

Benefits

We recognise and value our employees as individuals and aim to provide a favourable pay and rewards package. We are committed to supporting employees' development and promote a culture of continuous learning!

A list of benefits below:

An outstanding defined benefit pension scheme 30 days' annual leave in addition to 10.5 public and privilege days (full time equivalent) Employee discounts and offers on retail and leisure activities Employee assistance programme, providing confidential help and advice Flexible working options

Plus many more benefits and wellbeing initiatives that enable our employees to have a great work life balance!

For further information on our benefits please see:

Benefits of working at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)



Please apply online, if you experience any issue applying, please contact Recruitment@ukri.org



Please note, if you will require sponsorship to work in the UK, as part of your sponsorship application, you and any dependants travelling with you, will be required to pay costs directly to The Home Office for the application before you start your role with us. UKRI is normally able to reimburse some, or all of these fees after you have become an employee and this can be discussed with the Hiring Manager. For more information, please visit https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/how-much-it-costs or contact Recruitment@ukri.org .