Senior Transfers Consultant Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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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.
This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a department that touches the lives of citizens the length and breadth of the UK. More than ever, DWP is playing a critical role in supporting citizens through post-Covid economic impacts – both into work and progressing within work. DWP has an ambitious programme of welfare reform, and the way in which we deliver our services to over 20 million customers a year. We aspire to be a truly inclusive employer and welcome applications to help us reflect the citizens we serve.
Job description
Our Transfers Consultants are respected Transfers (TUPE/COSoP) subject matter experts. We enable the Department to meet its obligations under TUPE legislation by providing an expert consultancy and support service to DWP colleagues.
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 post-transfer 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
Essential Criteria for the role which will be used to assess your application, alongside Success Profiles:
- 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 from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.
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Application and Sift
Your application will consist of two parts:
1. A CV setting out your career history, aligned to the essential criteria. Please ensure you have provided reasons for any gaps within the last two years.
2. A Personal Statement of no more than 1250 words using the essential Criteria.
Your written evidence will be assessed against the essential criteria. Failure to address any or all of these may affect your application.
Should a large number of applications be received, an initial sift may be conducted using your CV and the lead criteria. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to interview. sift or progressed straight to interview.
Important Information
- Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered.
If your employment history/personal statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn.
Closing Date for Applications 2nd April
Sift dates W/C 10th April
Interview
If you’re successful at sift stage, you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. This will be a blended interview which will assess Behaviours and Strengths.
The behaviour questions, alongside full details of the interview requirements will be shared with candidates in advance of the interview, strength questions will not be notified in advance.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the interview:
- Managing a Quality Service
- Making Effective Decisions
- Communicating and Influencing
- Leadership
Interviews will take place W/C 1st May, though dates and times are to be confirmed.
The evidence you provide in your application must relate to your own experiences. If evidence of plagiarism is found your application will be withdrawn.
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A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made.
Any move to DWP from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland on your behalf.
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New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
Before applying for this vacancy, current employees of DWP should check whether a successful application would result in changes to their terms & conditions of employment, e.g. mobility, pay, allowances. Civil Servants that would transfer into DWP from other government organisations, following successful application, will assume DWP's terms & conditions of employment current on the day they are posted, unless DWP has stated otherwise in writing.
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At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce.
We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:Contact Government Recruitment Service via [email protected] as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
Complete the “Reasonable Adjustments” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you’re deaf, a Language Service Professional.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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