HR Business Consultant

Job summary

Are you an experienced HR Professional who enjoys working in a fast-paced, busy environment?

Do you enjoy building strong, influential and lasting relationships with a broad range of stakeholders?

Are you able to extract information to provide evidence that supports the agency’s strategies?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) play a vital role in keeping Britain’s roads safe and efficient.

DVLA’s Human Resources and Estates Directorate is at the heart of our organisation, supporting around 6,000 full time and part-time employees. We foster a workplace where our people can thrive, develop, and make a real difference every day. Our team is dedicated to championing talent, wellbeing, and innovation, ensuring that DVLA remains a great place to work and a driving force for positive change across the nation.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

Find out more about what it's like working at DVLA.

Job description

We are looking for a positive, professional HR Business Consultant to join our HR team here at DVLA. You will be the face of HR out in the business, providing HR business consultancy support and advice. You will act as a critical friend, coaching and appropriately challenging the business, advising on people related issues. You will support managers with people related issues and queries, as well as upskilling people to develop leadership capabilities.

You will analyse data, using it to identify people issues within the business and suitable solutions.

This is an exciting, fast-paced and varied role in which no two days will be the same.

Your responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Work with business areas to support the delivery of the people plan.
• Coach managers to effectively handle people issues, including performance management, staff engagement, and conduct
• Develop strong and influential relationships with a wide range of stakeholders to identify local business issues across all HR disciplines that require HR solutions
• Monitor actual workforce numbers to ensure business areas are meeting workforce targets and highlight any areas of concern
• Liaise with the HR policy team and subject matter experts on commonly identified HR policy and practice issues within the business, working together to produce resolutions and quality assure the consistent application of HR policies and practices
• Manage distinct HR projects, instinctively incorporating HR and business metrics to quantify impact
• Drive continuous improvement and act as a change agent, seeking best practice from both within and outside the Agency when supporting HR-related change in the business area
• Analyse HR management information to inform business intelligence and implement actions to continuously improve the business

For further information on the role, please read the attached role profile.Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

We are looking for a confident, articulate and resilient HR professional who can effectively balance drive and sensitivity. You will be comfortable offering appropriate challenge and suggesting alternative ideas.

You are a curious person and can analyse data and management information (MI) to identify people-related issues. You will utilise and present this information to the business as evidence to underpin your advice and guidance.

You will have excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage your key stakeholders, building robust relationships based on trust and capability, enabling you to identify suitable solutions to issues that arise.

You are a team player with a collaborative style and can bring others together with the resilience and determination to achieve goals and drive continuous improvement. You will be able to articulate the benefits of change and encourage others to recognise these. You will support business managers and provide coaching on people matters whilst role modelling HR values.

For this role you will need to be CIPD qualified at level 5, or willing to work towards this once in post.

Additional Information

We welcome applications from candidates who can speak Welsh and English. Welsh language skills would be useful in this role, but it is not an assessment criterion so it won’t put you at any disadvantage during recruitment if you aren’t a Welsh speaker. Please note that the assessment process will be held in English.

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 35 hours per week over 5 days.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

There will be a requirement for occasional travel to our Birmingham office which will involve overnight stays.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we do not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker Licence sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship. Candidates must ensure they have the appropriate rights to work in the UK before application.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Working Together
• Communicating and Influencing
• Changing and Improving

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,663, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency contributes £10,331 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out wha