JOB SUMMARY

Are you an experienced HR professional with a passion for streamlining processes, enhancing employee experiences, and driving operational excellence?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) and we’d love to hear from you!
This role provides strategic and operational support to the HR elements of the Unity Programme, with a specific focus on process improvement, data integrity, and system adoption.
You will act as a subject matter expert (SME) in HR processes and systems, particularly in relation to SuccessFactors, and will lead key workstreams to ensure successful implementation and integration of the Unity shared services model.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Your responsibilities will include:

• Impact and Gap Analysis: Maintain and update impact and gap analysis documentation by HR process area, identifying areas for improvement and alignment with Unity programme goals.
• Process Mapping: Lead the end-to-end mapping of HR processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and alignment with Unity system capabilities.
• Data Collection & Commissions: Coordinate and lead data collection activities and commissions required for Unity implementation, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Position Management Lead: Working alongside the Departmental workforce planning lead, scope and develop the adoption of the Unity position management model, including job mapping and structural alignment across departments.
• Notifications Management: Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the programme, manage all HR notifications linked to the Unity programme changes and updates.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Lead SME for specific Success Factor/HR processes.
• Testing: Lead testing activities for Unity system changes, including test script development, execution, and issue resolution – working in a matrix leadership role with your testing colleagues to ensure all aspects of the Unity model are tested and defects logged/managed.
• HR Knowledge Management: Maintain and reference HR guidance, audit trails, and knowledge repositories to support decision-making and ensure compliance.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

WE DO NOT CONSIDER DIRECT CV APPLICATIONS TO OUR RECRUITMENT MAILBOX – YOU MUST APPLY FOR THIS ROLE VIA THE APPLICATION LINK ON CIVIL SERVICE JOBS

Please note that near miss offers may be made at the lower grade to candidates who do not meet the grade criteria for this campaign.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Impact and Gap Analysis: Maintain and update impact and gap analysis documentation by HR process area, identifying areas for improvement and alignment with Unity programme goals.
• Process Mapping: Lead the end-to-end mapping of HR processes, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and alignment with Unity system capabilities.
• Data Collection & Commissions: Coordinate and lead data collection activities and commissions required for Unity implementation, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Position Management Lead: Working alongside the Departmental workforce planning lead, scope and develop the adoption of the Unity position management model, including job mapping and structural alignment across departments.
• Notifications Management: Collaborating closely with stakeholders across the programme, manage all HR notifications linked to the Unity programme changes and updates.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Lead SME for specific Success Factor/HR processes.
• Testing: Lead testing activities for Unity system changes, including test script development, execution, and issue resolution – working in a matrix leadership role with your testing colleagues to ensure all aspects of the Unity model are tested and defects logged/managed.
• HR Knowledge Management: Maintain and reference HR guidance, audit trails, and knowledge repositories to support decision-making and ensure compliance

There may be opportunities for candidates to work flexibly depending on the business needs. This will be discussed with the vacancy manager on a case-by-case basis if you are successful for the role.

• Please note: The Darlington Economic Campus (DEC) is a pioneering new cross-government hub which will bring together people across departments and public organisations to play an active role in the most important economic issues of the day. The work of the Campus will make a real difference to people both across the UK and internationally. There will be substantial career opportunities and exciting prospects - a career at the Campus means you will be working at the heart of Government, with access to the benefits and fantastic opportunities offered by the civil service