NWG (Northumbrian Water Group)
People Business Partner - Projects
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People Business Partner - Projects
- Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered)
- 12 months FTC
- Salary – from £48,028 + Benefits
- Location – Pity Me, Durham
About The Role
We have an exciting opportunity to join our People team as a People Business Partner - Projects, playing a key role in delivering strategic people priorities that help Northumbrian Water Group achieve its business objectives through its people. The role supports Senior People Partners, and Centres of Expertise to plan, coordinate and deliver projects and initiatives that make a real difference across our business.
Our sector is experiencing significant growth and transformation, and you'll work collaboratively across the organisation to support delivery of key projects linked to our People Strategy. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys project-based work, stakeholder engagement and turning great ideas into practical solutions. You'll coordinate and deliver people projects, facilitate workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions, and bring together a variety of stakeholders to ensure successful implementation of key people initiatives.
You'll work closely with operational leaders, Senior People Partners and subject matter experts to support the planning, coordination and delivery of strategic people priorities. This includes managing people projects and initiatives across areas such as colleague terms and conditions, organisational design, engagement, inclusion and change. You'll help ensure projects are delivered effectively, with clear plans, governance and stakeholder engagement.
You'll manage project plans, monitor progress, identify risks and dependencies, and provide meaningful reporting and insights to stakeholders. Using people data and evidence-based recommendations, you'll help evaluate outcomes, identify opportunities for improvement and support the successful delivery of projects across the business.
The role will also involve designing and facilitating workshops, events and working groups, building strong internal networks, and sharing innovative approaches and best practice to support continuous improvement across our People function.
Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment.
NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders, we will not, however consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
About You
If you're passionate about people, culture, organisational improvement and delivering projects that create meaningful business impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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We're looking for someone who is CIPD qualified and has significant HR experience working with a range of stakeholders across a complex organisation. You'll have proven experience of engaging, influencing and constructively challenging managers and senior professionals, whilst building strong and trusted partnerships with a variety of stakeholders, including Trade Unions.
You'll have experience of successfully delivering and embedding people programmes and initiatives, monitoring outcomes and evaluating impact. You will have supported talent development and talent mobility activities, helped improve colleague engagement and worked collaboratively to create inclusive and positive workplace cultures.
We're looking for someone who can combine strong project delivery skills with excellent stakeholder management. You'll be highly organised, comfortable managing multiple priorities and able to coordinate activity across a range of projects and workstreams.
You'll Also Bring:
- Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to manage a varied portfolio of activity.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to produce reports and project updates.
- Strong analytical capability, with the ability to identify insights, trends and opportunities from people data.
- A continuous improvement mindset and a passion for finding innovative solutions to business challenges.
- The ability to build effective, collaborative and trusting relationships at all levels of the organisation.
Here at Northumbrian Water/Essex & Suffolk Water, we embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, and encourage all colleagues to bring their most authentic self to work.
Our colleague network groups include our Rainbow Support Network (LGBTQIA+), REACH (Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Heritage), WiSTEM (Women in STEM) and Thisability (disability and neurodiversity) networks. They provide a safe space for colleagues from diverse backgrounds, welcoming all colleagues regardless of their personal characteristics to participate in valuable conversation that improves our organisational awareness, understanding and inclusivity.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to having diverse communities represented within all our teams, structures, and organisation.
About Us
Here are NWG we strive to make Northumbrian Water Group (NWG) a Great Place to Work, for all. We embrace and value Diversity, Inclusion and Equity and encourage you to bring your full self to work. As an equal opportunity employer we’re committed to having a diverse community represented across our business.
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We’re aware that not everyone will have every skill listed in the job description, and that female candidates are less likely to apply if they don’t have the full range of skills, however if you have some of the skills listed, we 'd encourage you to apply.
NWG At a Glance:
Our purpose at NWG is caring for the essential needs of our communities and environment, now and for generations to come.
We do this by providing reliable and affordable water and wastewater services for our customers.
We make a positive difference by operating efficiently and investing prudently, to maintain a sustainable and resilient business.
Our vision is to be the national leader in the provision of sustainable water and wastewater services. To support us in achieving our vision, we have five core values which are the guiding principles, defining who we are, what we do and how we do it.
Our Benefits
We’re a Great Place to Work because of the amazing people who work for us, and to say thank you we offer a range of benefits to colleagues. Our ‘Tap Into’ benefits include:
- Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
- Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
About Us
NWG (Northumbrian Water Group) provides water and sewerage services to 2.7 million people in the North East of England as Northumbrian Water, and water services to 1.5 million people in the South East of England as Essex & Suffolk Water.
We are proud to serve our customers and we're committed to delivering great service, putting our customers at the heart of everything we do.
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