Human Resources Business Partner

Posting date:	17 July 2025
Salary:	£54,857 per year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	31 July 2025
Location:	Birmingham
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	416677/3

Summary

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.

Come to Department for Transport (DfT) and grow your skills and experience across some of the biggest, most complex challenges in UK transport and infrastructure. We are looking to recruit an HR Business Partner to work with our Senior Leaders at DfT. This is a high-profile role where you will belong to a team of HRBPs whose primary function is to each partner one or more Director General (DG) and their Senior Leadership Teams. You will get to build relationships across the Groups that DGs lead, and work across the HR function to ensure they deliver against key business priorities.

This role that would suit a strong HR generalist with experience of business partnering. You're comfortable working at a strategic level and have a breadth of HR experience in change orientated environments. You take a proactive approach to work; displaying a high degree of grip, integrity, resilience and resourcefulness, and are happy to use your own initiative and take a hands-on approach to problem solving and bringing constructive challenge.

Our HRBPs have exposure across the whole range of HR activity, while at the same time leading the people agenda for the Group they partner. Key responsibilities and objectives include:

Strategic resourcing and workforce planning

• Building positive relationships with key senior stakeholders including DfT Director Generals (DGs) and their Senior Leadership Teams in undertaking business and workforce planning, ensuring effective deployment of people to achieve organisational priorities and deliver against key corporate initiatives.

Implementation and delivery of people strategies for Groups in a dynamic change environment

• Providing strategic support to senior leaders and teams; using Organisational Design (OD) skills to inform the development and delivery of change initiatives across the department and within Group.

Building and developing skills and capability within Groups

• Ensuring leaders understand and are fully engaged with talent identification and succession planning activities and processes at senior leadership level and below for critical posts.

Active leader across the HR function

• Working across the HR function to ensure a proactive and joined-up approach on cross-cutting corporate issues. This covers a broad spectrum of activity from building capability and pipelines in new locations outside London through to feeding into policy development and then helping it land.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

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