• Support the delivery of Strategic Workforce Planning activities by preparing workforce information and contributing to planning output
• Assist in maintaining workforce planning tools and approaches to support consistent planning across the organisation
• Contribute to workforce planning cycles, including supporting workshops, stakeholder engagement activity and follow up actions
• Work with colleagues to identify emerging workforce themes, risks and priorities
• Produce clear and accessible reports, dashboards and summaries to support all Strategic Workforce Planning activity
• Use statistical tools such as Excel, Power BI, and Minitab to analyse data, creating dashboards and reports for organisational specialists and leaders. Identify trends and patterns and provide recommendations to improve people policies and practices.
• Translate workforce information into meaningful insight that can inform strategic workforce plans
• Support the development of regular workforce reporting and planning outputs
• Maintain workforce information and ensure it is accurate, up to date and aligned with organisational standards
• Support the review and improvement of workforce information and reporting processes
• Work with colleagues to resolve information issues and improve consistency and reliability
• Contribute to guidance and documentation that supports effective use of workforce planning
• Identify opportunities to improve workforce planning solutions (including early careers), tools and ways of working
• Support research and gathering of information relating to workforce trends, skills and organisational priorities
• Contribute to the ongoing development of workforce planning approaches and outputs
• Provide guidance to colleagues on understanding and using workforce information and reports
• Build effective working relationships across the organisation
• Support collaboration between workforce planning, HR and people related teams
• Undertake health and safety duties and responsibilities appropriate to the post
• Be committed to Natural Resources Wales Equal Opportunities and Diversity Policy, together with an understanding of how it operates within the responsibilities of the post
• Be committed to your own development through the effective use of your personal development plan (known as Sgwrs).
• Any other reasonable duties requested commensurate with the grade of this role.

Your Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

In your application and interview you will be asked to demonstrate the following skills and experience using the STAR method.

• Degree in a relevant subject or a good grounding in data management or computer science.
• CIPD qualified (Level 5 Intermediate)/Associate Member of the CIPD or equivalent level professional qualification or experience in workforce planning.
• Experience of working with information, reporting or analysis in a professional environment
• Ability to interpret information and present clear, practical insight to support decision making
• Knowledge and experience of using statistical packages for analysing data and able to present findings (Excel, SPSS, SAS, Power BI, Miro, etc)
• Good communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information in a clear and accessible way
• Ability to work effectively in a team-orientated environment while supporting managers on strategic workforce planning.

Welsh Language Level Requirements

Essential: Level A1 - Entry level

Welsh language levels

Please note if you do not meet the A1 requirement i.e., ability to understand basic phrases and ability to pronounce Welsh names correctly, then NRW offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Additional Information

Successful applicants will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) check. Appointments are normally made within 4 to 8 weeks of the closing date.

Natural Resources Wales is unable to offer visa sponsorship for this position. Although we hold a Skilled Worker visa sponsorship licence, it applies only to specific roles that meet both the eligibility criteria and salary requirements set out by the UK Government under the Skilled Worker visa route.

Benefits

This role will offer a range of benefits, including:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme offering employer contributions of 28.97% (successful internal staff will remain in their current pension scheme)
• 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days
• generous leave entitlements for all your life needs
• commitment to professional development
• health and wellbeing benefits and support
• weekly wellbeing hour to use as you choose

See full details for all the employee benefits you will receive.

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We're passionate about creating a diverse workforce and positively encourage applications from under-represented communities. We embrace equality of opportunity irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

We are committed to equal opportunities, and we guarantee interviews for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

We want to attract and retain talented and highly skilled staff, so we make sure that our pay scales remain competitive. We advertise the full pay scale on our job descriptions. Appointed candidates start at the first point of the pay scale and annual increments are paid each year.

We want our staff to grow professionally and personally. From leadership development to access to further and higher education courses, our staff have opportunities to expand their knowledge on variety of topics, stay current in their field and continue to learn as their career progresses.

We are a Bilingual organisation which complies with the Welsh Language Standards. Welsh language skills are considered an asset to NRW, and we encourage and support staff to learn, develop and use their Welsh language skills.