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Our passengers and freight users are at the heart of everything we do. We help connect people to their friends and families and get goods to their destination safely and efficiently. We're an organisation where people matter.
We're continuing to build a diverse organisation which is representative of the people we serve. We want to harness the skills and expertise of our people and attract the best talent, to enable a safe and accessible railway for everyone. To learn why inclusion is important to us, please click here.
About our people and the recruitment process - We're an inclusive employer of choice and we welcome applications from everyone!
We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly, as we know traditional working patterns don't always fit. If you want to consider working flexibly, just let us know and we'll do our best to help and invest in your career with us, whilst you have a healthy work life balance.
We're also a Disability Confident Leader employer and we'll try our best to adapt the process and offer a reasonable alternative to help support people with disabilities access, apply and interview for roles.
Key accountabilities
- Provide proactive, professional HR support to HR Business Partner teams to enable the delivery of value add HR support and the people plan for the supported organisation/s.
- Provide proactive, professional HR Support to the HR Business Partner team/s and the business to facilitate the delivery of value add HR and the delivery of the people/HR plans.
- Support HR Business Partner teams in Talent Management, Workforce and Succession Planning and performance planning, maintaining appropriate data within the associated process.
- Provide support for Organisation Change programmes, through the full development and implementation phases.
- Provide project management support to the HR Business Partner team, tracking, measuring and communicating through the project timeline.
- Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with research, reporting requirements, analysis and production of reports to support the implementation of HR initiatives.
- Seeks, identifies and develops solutions to continuously improve the HR support to the business.
- Maintains up to date professional HR knowledge to input into the development of both operational and value add HR initiatives.
- Takes ownership for delivery of assigned work within HR programmes/initiatives.
- Support the associated HR Business Partner team/s with ad hoc administrative and operational HR activity.
Job skills, experience and qualifications
Essential
- Demonstrates strong customer service skills.
- Experience of working within a large, complex and fast moving organisation.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong time management, organisation and prioritisation skills and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines.
- Resilient, Adaptable and Flexible.
- IT literate, strong excel, word and PowerPoint knowledge.
- Experience of event coordination and facilitation.
- Research and analytical skills.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Experience of supporting the delivery of HR initiatives and projects.
Desirable
- CIPD Qualified or relevant HR Support experience.
- Graduate calibre
How to apply
Late applications will not be accepted. Network Rail reserves the right to close the advert before the advertised closing date dependent upon the number of applications received.
The role is based in Milton Keynes and as such for this role you need to live within 75 minutes of The Quadrant in Milton Keynes. Remote working opportunity! Please note that this role does require 2/3 days working in the office a week.
What does our recruitment process look like?
- Once you have applied, our Recruitment Specialist will look at your CV.
- If your experience matches what we're looking for, you'll be invited to an face to face interview with the hiring manager.
