Warning
This job advert has expired and applications have closed.
Royal Navy People - RFA HR Career Manager
| Posting date: | 08 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £28,300 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 June 2024 |
| Location: | Portsmouth, Hampshire |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Defence |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 352483 |
Summary
The RFA People team is based within Navy Command Headquarters; the nerve centre of the Royal Navy providing the ships, people, aircraft and equipment to deliver the UK’s defence policy. Civil Servants and Armed Forces personnel work together across a wide range of interesting and challenging jobs in different disciplines.
The People and Training Directorate within Navy Command Headquarters is responsible for attracting, recruiting, training, sustaining and retaining inspired, capable and motivated people in an agile and flexible Whole Force to enable the Royal Navy to succeed on operations by putting our people capability first. Our modern approach to the future workplace and our singular focus on improving the lived experience presents a unique opportunity to support, enable and empower the people of the Royal Navy to thrive, and unlock their potential as valued and respected individuals who operate to fight and win.
We are seeking people-focussed professionals with an eye for detail and excellent verbal communication skills to join us at an exciting time where you will have the opportunity to shape and develop an evolving new position, to:
· assign individuals to ship and shore posts on a rotational basis, using the appointing criteria to prioritise and completing/sending all required documentation.
· present personnel options at short notice to the RFA Career and Talent Team Leaders and/or RFA Operational Capability Team in response to emergency changes in availability, appointment, schedule or priorities.
· manage and utilise availability to minimise the use of travel, subsistence and Continuous Pay
· undertake the responsibilities of Line Manager when individual Seafarers are not assigned to a platform, training establishment, course or activity
· be the nominal line manager for all HR processes inclusive of attendance management, reward and recognition, provision of policy guidance, and end of employment action.
· proactively seek opportunities to nominate personnel for mandatory and vocational training, optimising impact to seafaring availability.
· arrange career interviews as appropriate with individuals to manage their progression and maintain accurate and complete “packs” for consideration for promotion and advancement.
· review, update and maintain accuracy of personnel records- both digital and paper-based personnel files. To include appropriately logging, processing and filing incoming certificates, documents and fit notes on personnel records
· review, refresh, update and replace all standard documentation, templates and communication methods
· contribute to a Multi-Disciplinary Team conducting a Policy Simplification project
· Schedule and attend in person or virtual engagement events across our community.
· As a team of colleagues we all act as note-takers for each other within meetings to provide our seafarers with an accurate, fair, equitable, efficient and transparent service.
Each of our new team will also have a specific additional “integration and development” human resource management responsibility. Your contribution could be scheduling visits and engagement activities, attending events with the Recruit and Attract team, compiling evidence for Hearings, Appeals and Court cases, investigating circumstances for special allowances, supporting our partnerships with Maritime Trade Unions, providing access to Wellbeing resource or evidencing new ways to use our people data for making positive change.
The People and Training Directorate within Navy Command Headquarters is responsible for attracting, recruiting, training, sustaining and retaining inspired, capable and motivated people in an agile and flexible Whole Force to enable the Royal Navy to succeed on operations by putting our people capability first. Our modern approach to the future workplace and our singular focus on improving the lived experience presents a unique opportunity to support, enable and empower the people of the Royal Navy to thrive, and unlock their potential as valued and respected individuals who operate to fight and win.
We are seeking people-focussed professionals with an eye for detail and excellent verbal communication skills to join us at an exciting time where you will have the opportunity to shape and develop an evolving new position, to:
· assign individuals to ship and shore posts on a rotational basis, using the appointing criteria to prioritise and completing/sending all required documentation.
· present personnel options at short notice to the RFA Career and Talent Team Leaders and/or RFA Operational Capability Team in response to emergency changes in availability, appointment, schedule or priorities.
· manage and utilise availability to minimise the use of travel, subsistence and Continuous Pay
· undertake the responsibilities of Line Manager when individual Seafarers are not assigned to a platform, training establishment, course or activity
· be the nominal line manager for all HR processes inclusive of attendance management, reward and recognition, provision of policy guidance, and end of employment action.
· proactively seek opportunities to nominate personnel for mandatory and vocational training, optimising impact to seafaring availability.
· arrange career interviews as appropriate with individuals to manage their progression and maintain accurate and complete “packs” for consideration for promotion and advancement.
· review, update and maintain accuracy of personnel records- both digital and paper-based personnel files. To include appropriately logging, processing and filing incoming certificates, documents and fit notes on personnel records
· review, refresh, update and replace all standard documentation, templates and communication methods
· contribute to a Multi-Disciplinary Team conducting a Policy Simplification project
· Schedule and attend in person or virtual engagement events across our community.
· As a team of colleagues we all act as note-takers for each other within meetings to provide our seafarers with an accurate, fair, equitable, efficient and transparent service.
Each of our new team will also have a specific additional “integration and development” human resource management responsibility. Your contribution could be scheduling visits and engagement activities, attending events with the Recruit and Attract team, compiling evidence for Hearings, Appeals and Court cases, investigating circumstances for special allowances, supporting our partnerships with Maritime Trade Unions, providing access to Wellbeing resource or evidencing new ways to use our people data for making positive change.