Human Resources Manager

Ministry of Justice; United States; Remote; USD 43,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry of Justice is recruiting for an HR professional to support management across the South Central region. The role focuses on delivering HR services, interpreting policy, managing complex cases, and building strong relationships with managers and stakeholders to drive business outcomes.

The post may involve travel to various prison and probation sites. The successful candidate will apply generalist HR knowledge and contribute to continuous improvement while collaborating with central case

Qualifications

• Previous experience of an HR delivery role.
• Ability to confidently build and manage a diverse range of relationships, including with senior stakeholders.
• Supporting others to optimise performance of their People Management Skills.
• Excellent communication skills, both in verbal and written formats.
• Ability to analyse and understand data and apply analytics to business delivery.
• Member of CIPD or willing to work towards it; CPD demonstrated; HR Apprenticeship pathway possible.

Responsibilities

• Support an area of the business with wide-ranging impact and develop options to improve performance.
• Respond to HR queries and provide specialist advice within HR policy and case management.
• Collaborate with managers to interpret HR advice and deploy appropriate HR services.
• Maintain relationships and contribute to team decisions using initiative.
• Travel to prison and probation sites within the South Central region with occasional travel to other HMPPS sites.

Skills

HR delivery

Relationship management

Communication

Data analytics

CPD / CIPD readiness

Job description

The Ministry of Justice People and Capability (MoJ P&C) supports the organisation by enabling its people to be the best that they can be. We are continuously reviewing and enhancing the services that P&C provide across the MoJ to deliver high quality services for our customers. MoJ has a team of committed and capable professionals delivering people services across the Justice family. With a passion for people management and a desire to build an HR generalist foundation for a future career, the post holder will work with managers from within HMPPS to optimise the effective working relationship and ensure maximum impact of HR on business effectiveness. This is your opportunity to be part of the HR enabling prisons and probation to make society safer and help people turn live. The role involves a proactive approach to problem solving and enabling the business to find solutions to HR challenges. With a generalist knowledge of case management and essential functional HR experience, the role is key to enabling business leaders through interpretation of HR policy, application of case management advice and the delivery of key HR processes to maintain the links with essential systems; SSCL, Occupational Health, Civil Service Pensions etc., As a HR professional in either a regional role or a HQ delivery role to a sector of the business, the post holder will support business leaders, managers and specialists with more complex HR cases and provide a professional link to the central case management service, working together to achieve effective outcomes. As the first point of contact to the business, the post holder would be required to manage stakeholder expectations and gather business intelligence to provide specialist advice or deploy the appropriate service from within the team. Responsibilities, activities and duties Supporting an area of the business with wide ranging impact, appraising, assessing and adapting to a wide range of issues on a day-to-day basis and developing options to maintain or improve performance. Role holder will have autonomy to make decisions within their discrete area of work to deploy appropriate resources using initiative and in communication with their established network of contacts across the wider HR community. Interpreting HR advice which may require follow up questions or discussion to understand the wider impact of the issue. Decisions might involve considerable discretion but will be constrained by policy and best practice. Analysing HR data and applying understanding to decide on an appropriate intervention or course of action. Considering sensitive or multiple opposing opinions to establish facts; establishing the best approach; determining appropriate methodologies; analysis to ensure quality and application of results. Exercise judgement and make decisions based based on their own interpretation. Details may be unclear and require further investigation. Required to maintain relationships by supporting others, contribute to team decisions and use initiative to solve problems. Contribute directly to the achievement of operational organisational objectives by developing internal credibility and providing guidance and consultancy to managers on HR related issues, which include: Employment Tribunal, Grievance, Disciplinary Support Attendance Management Support Audit, Assurance & Compliance Commissioner: Expert Services & Support (Internal & External), The successful candidate will be required to travel to prison and probation sites across the South Central region with occasional travel to other HMPPS sites. All applicants should be aware that business partnering arrangements are subject to change and postholders will be expected to accommodate changes in partnering arrangements in line with business need to include providing cover and support for other business areas when required.

• Previous experience of an HR delivery role. (assessed via CV)
• The ability to confidently build and manage a diverse range of relationships, including with senior stakeholders. (assessed via behaviour working together)
• Supporting others to optimise performance of their People Management Skills. (assessed via behaviour Leadership)
• Excellent communication skills, both in verbal and written formats. (assessed via behaviour Communicating and Influencing)
• Ability to analyse and understand data and apply analytics to business delivery. (assessed via behaviour Managing a Quality Service)
• Desirable experience, knowledge and skills Previous experience of working in a HR team within the Civil Service and an awareness of the wider Civil Service HR operating model. Experience of HR consultancy work or other service delivery based on a Customer Relationship Model., You will be a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent or be willing to work towards it and actively demonstrate Continuous Professional Development. This role can be linked to HR Apprenticeship (Level 5) and may be appropriate as a route into CIPD qualification.