HR Governance Manager (Sizewell C)

Location

Leiston, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

Location: Flexible – hybrid working arrangements with travel to London and Suffolk required

Employment type: Permanent full-time/ part-time.

Employment basis: The role is expected to be a full- time position however we are open to discussing a more flexible or part- time approach where possible.

Salary: From £70,000, dependent on experience, plus bonus, market-leading pension, and flexible benefits. 

Closing date: Tuesday 12th March. 

The Opportunity

Are you looking for a career which is rewarding, at the cutting edge of project development and where you can really make a difference?

Are you a brilliant communicator and skilled writer with excellent attention to detail?

Can you build productive working-level relationships across business functions and with external government and regulatory bodies?

Do you have an understanding of senior-level reward and the operation of Remuneration Committees?

Come and join our expanding Sizewell C (SZC) team and work on one of the most exciting and largest megaprojects in the UK, whilst being at the forefront of the UK’s climate change agenda and energy policy. Following on from the success of Hinkley Point C (HPC), the SZC Project is a nuclear new build project in Suffolk, which has obtained planning approval and Government financing support. The project is now seeking private investment with a view to start construction in 2024. When completed, it will provide dependable electricity to 6 million homes for 60 years, which along with renewables, will support Britain to achieve Net Zero by 2050.

We have a fantastic opportunity for an HR Governance Manager, working closely with the HR Director and Heads of HR. With His Majesty’s Government (HMG) as our majority shareholder, we are now required to share a regular flow of formal papers and documentation on a wide variety of people-related topics with Government and potential investors. While these will cover a range of people-related content, the initial focus will be on senior-level reward and supporting the operation of SZC’s Nomination and Remuneration Committee. If successful, a big part of your role will be authoring high-quality papers and documents and to build and manage productive working relationships with the HMG shareholder team.

This is a senior role, suiting someone with a strong HR knowledge and particularly a strong ability to write a good paper.  Ideally the successful candidate will have experience of working with HMG.    

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to join Sizewell C and it’s HR function at a key stage of development and a rare opportunity to work on a major infrastructure programme which is pivotal to ensuring the UK’s energy security.  

Our HR team is set up to work flexibly, with a hybrid working approach between our offices and your home.  We provide a full suite of IT equipment to ensure that our employees can work from home comfortably and effectively. This is not principally a business facing role, so we can be flexible on location but travel to London and Suffolk will be required.

The Role

Working to the Head of HR Operations, this role will also provide executive support to the HR Director who is responsible for leading the interaction on people-related content with HMG and other Shareholders. This role will not only be responsible for preparing people-related briefing papers, but also the coordination and delivery of corporate activities such as the creation of HR business plans, budgets and supporting the effective operation of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee.

Key stakeholders are: UK Government, relevant Government departments and agencies including Treasury BEIS, EDF, Financial investors and institutions, Regulators, Alliance partners and local communities as well as senior leaders across SZC

Main Accountabilities:

• Providing executive support to the HR Director and Heads of HR which will include preparing and providing executive briefings and Board and Committee Papers. The job holder will be responsible for ensuring senior leaders are briefed and leading on communications with internal and external stakeholders.
• Managing the flow of information to and from the HR Leadership team and Government, developing an understanding of the timeline to achieve strategic objectives that their work supports and managing delivery to this.
• Working with corporate teams to ensure briefing requests are understood, any requests are acted upon, final output endorsed and views of the wider corporate team have been represented in any output.
• Taking a flexible approach to the role, responding quickly to developments in the organisation and to the preferences of the senior leadership.
• Establishing an effective network across SZC and external interfaces, creating brilliant working-level relationships

The Skills

This is a stretching role that requires someone who is comfortable with working in a fast-paced and changing environment and has experience of preparing high-quality executive briefing papers and papers for Boards and Committees on people related topics, especially related to remuneration. Experience of the workings of Board-level committees such as Remuneration Committees will be helpful.

The role would suit someone comfortable with experience of working with senior stakeholders both internally and externally, a background in business management and who is comfortable managing a varied and wide-ranging work.

The role holder must be an effective communicator, a skilled writer of business documentation and with exceptional attention to detail.

It is likely that the successful candidate will have experience of working closely with national or regional government. 

Essential:

• Working Together: the ability to build and maintain positive and effective working relationships with a wide range of people, within and beyond your own team and organisation.
• Communicating and Influencing: excellent written and oral communication skills, delivering clear and succinct messaging in the appropriate tone and format for the audience, including the ability to write formal papers appropriate for scrutiny from the Board. Exceptional attention to detail.
• Delivering at Pace: the ability to work in a fast-paced, reactionary environment, juggling competing priorities and navigating complexity.
• Seeing the Big Picture: an awareness of the objectives of the organisation, and how your own work and that of the wider team contribute to and enhance delivery against those objectives.
• Resilience: Able to be tough where necessary, to challenge and to push back.

Qualifications & Experience

Essential:

• Prior experience working in an executive management or business operations role – likely in an HR context - working with Senior stakeholders.
• Writing papers and documentation for Boards or Executive Committees.

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a new or growing organisation.
• Experience of working with National or Regional Government and /or other similar investors.

If the above sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!

A full job description is available on application. 

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Power in Diversity

Sizewell C is a great place to work, where everyone is welcome.

To fulfil our commitment of doing the power of good for Britain, our ambition is to have a workforce which reflects and benefits the society we are part of and serve.  Every worker on SZC, wherever they are, should help to create and experience the right environment where everyone on the team understands, respects and embraces diversity with a culture where everyone is treated with equal respect and are all given equal access to opportunities.  By valuing the different points of view and experiences that having a diverse team brings, and by fostering an inclusive climate, we will create a great place to work and a more successful project. 

We create the right environment where people feel able to bring their whole selves to work. Whilst working together there is mutual trust and appreciation created through the building of meaningful relationships with one another, aligned with our key values:

Respect: Value the rules and environment in which we operate

Positivity: Positively challenge poor quality and performance

Humility: Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise

Solidarity: One team, working closely together and helping each other

Clarity: Communicate clearly and consistently

Everyone is able to get the most from their work and the workplace, and in return, give their best.

Competitive Salary and Benefits

We’re dedicated to offering flexible benefits that support our people across all aspects of their lives and we’re delighted to offer a range of benefits to support our employees’ physical, emotional and financial wellbeing. 

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a market-leading company pension scheme, paid holidays and a range of flexible benefits, such as: a company incentive bonus plan, health cover, cycle to work scheme, discounts and employee pricing.

Please let us know if you’d like to discuss flexible working arrangements by highlighting this on your application.

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