People Consultant

Location: Gatwick, GB

Salary: £45,000 up to £50,000 dependent upon experience

Contract Type: 9 months Fixed Term Contract, Full-time

Security Level: BPSS

This position does not offer visa sponsorship.

We are the UK's aviation and aerospace regulator and recognised as a world leader in its field. Our activities are diverse, enabling the aviation industry to meet the highest safety standards, and we pride ourselves on our ability to adapt to the constantly evolving aviation environment.

The Role

As part of the People Services team, the People Consultant provides a dedicated and proactive service to our people managers and colleagues advising on a broad range of people related activity across the organisation. This includes:

• Coaching and advising managers on informal and formal employee relations cases.
• Providing people data and insights to management to help inform decisions and initiate appropriate actions.
• Contributing to key projects and activities aligned to group people plans and our CAA People Strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish trusted relationships with people managers providing expert and commercially sound people advice.
• Provide coaching and support to people managers with complex employee cases such as performance management, absence management, disciplinary and grievance matters.
• Coach and mentor colleagues in the People Services Advisor Team supporting with complex queries or cases where needed.
• Work with the Strategic People Partners on the implementation of change and restructuring programmes.
• Analyse people metrics highlighting any trends to the management population and suggesting strategic people interventions.
• Attend management meetings where required and highlight any emerging issues or key trends to the Strategic People Partner.
• Provide constructive challenge and support to people managers on matters relating to job evaluation, pay and benchmarking.
• Support managers with the evaluation of current capabilities in their team and work with them to identify any necessary learning interventions.
• Deliver training or briefings to people managers in line with CAA People Strategy.
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve HR policies and processes to ensure an effective and consistent service for CAA people managers.

About You

• Proven experience in a HR generalist or ER role with a track record of building trusted working relationships with people managers and leaders at all levels.
• Proactive approach: takes ownership for supporting people managers with their case from start to finish.
• Excellent knowledge of UK employment law with experience of applying this to complex ER cases.
• Experience in organisational change management and restructuring.
• Self-aware and open to feedback; applies self-management techniques to support resilience.
• Builds collaborative relationships with People and Culture colleagues.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to coach, challenge, and influence at all levels.
• Able to analyse data and share insights in a way that is easy to understand.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of highly sensitive information; high degrees of integrity and discretion are essential.
• Ability to work to deadlines with well-developed planning and organisational skills.
• Comfortable working in a culture of constant change.

Additional Information

For many appointments within the CAA these roles require access to operationally sensitive infrastructure and/or Nationally Protected information. For these roles the post holders must undergo National Security Vetting and achieve the appropriate level of clearance. To be vetted you must have the right to work in the UK so that meaningful checks can be undertaken.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.

Benefits

We offer a range of excellent benefits such as flexible working arrangements, free onsite gym at Gatwick, discounted gym membership for London, 28 days annual leave, additional 5 days leave purchase scheme, a generous pension scheme and much more!

We are an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. As a member of the Disability Confident scheme, applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a role with us will be guaranteed an interview. If you require an adjustment for any reason, please let us know.

The CAA values high ethical standards and personal integrity among employees. If invited for interview you will be asked to complete a declaration of interest.