Senior Transfers Consultant - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Department for Work and Pensions

Department for Work and Pensions

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Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £38,469 - £41,480-
Job grade:

Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
DWP
People, Capability and Place
Type of role:
Human Resources
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Job share, Parttime
Number of jobs available:
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Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, NewcastleuponTyne, SheffieldAbout the job

Job summary:

Do you understand how to influence senior leaders and provide expert advice?

Do you enjoy delving into specialist HR policies and legislation?

Do you want to provide a great customer service and make a difference?

If so, then our role could be for you
We have a role available in the DWP Employee Transfers Team as a Senior Transfers Consultant.

For this role we're looking for someone with specialist skills, experience, and knowledge of TUPE and COSoP transfer legislation and procedures, excellent HR and policy knowledge and someone who is confident engaging with senior stakeholders and other HR departments to provide expert advice and guidance.

You will be experienced in influencing colleagues and senior stakeholders, taking ownership for your area of work, using project management and problem-solving skills to provide cost & time effective solutions to Employee Transfer issues, identifying risks and sharing your results with the wider team.

Job description:

We work across DWP with HR Business Partners, Commercial, Government Legal Department, Policy teams, Business areas and Project teams and we collaborate with Other Government Departments and external supplier HR teams.

We focus on providing bespoke support, tailored to the nature of the transfer and provide a smooth transfer experience for transferring employees.

Our Senior Transfers Consultant will manage a small team of Transfer Consultant and Support staff.

You should have relevant knowledge and experience, meticulous attention to detail, strong organisational and leadership skills, excellent written and verbal communication skills, and strong stakeholder influencing skills.

Your responsibilities will include:

Leading and managing complex transfers; managing a project, resolving issues, escalating risks, staying organised to ensure deadlines are met, evaluating afterwards to capture lessons learned.
Providing expert advice to HR Business Partners and stakeholders, or seeking relevant expertise from Civil Service HR expert team or Legal/ Actuarial teams.
Leading on resolution of complex posttransfer queries or issues requiring escalation and identifying any risks and constraints for escalation to the Employee Transfers Lead.
Communicating clearly and succinctly to senior leaders, stakeholders and individuals using written, presentational, and verbal skills to get to the heart of issues and challenges or to influence recommendations and proposals.
Lead a small team of HEO Consultant and EO Support roles, undertaking line management activities, building the teams' capability, and showing commitment to inclusivity and wellbeing.

Person specification:

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Lead Criteria:Demonstrate a good working knowledge of TUPE and COSoP transfer legislation and procedures and relevant experience of working as part of a HR function delivering an employee transfer under TUPE regulations/ COSoP

Evidence of investigating complex transfer information, data, and HR policies to inform decisions on people management issues and to influence strategy and service delivery agendas
Demonstrate strong communication skills when communicating complex matters clearly and succinctly to a wide range of audiences both verbally and in writing
Explain how you quickly establish professional relationships with a range of stakeholders at different seniority levels, influence and negotiate on complex matters, and uphold a positive team spirit, championing inclusive values.

Desirable criteria

Relevant professional qualification or knowledge member or associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), willingness to work towards this, or equivalent professional qualification or HR knowledge

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Managing a Quality Service
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing
Leadership

Benefits:

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.
A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week fr