Workforce Planning Officer

Overall

To deliver solutions to support effective workforce planning and modelling in the effective management of the business resources. This includes recruitment, promotion and transfer processes that meet both the short and long term Resourcing needs of the business that support strategic priorities.  As such, you will proactively manage and offer solutions to the overall Resourcing needs of the business including effective processes of recruitment and selection informed by workforce planning.

Duties

• To develop and manage a set of systems and processes for effectively establishing the needs of the business in terms of resourcing and workforce planning, to ensure that an awareness of the organisation’s needs in these areas is maintained, and that action can be planned to address these needs
• Develop, manage and update as necessary, an establishment and workforce planning framework including a vacancy forecasting model, to provide informed HR resourcing and workforce planning advice to the appropriate decision makers
• To manage an effective process of recruitment and selection that is driven by the needs of the business, to ensure that appropriate individuals are attracted and appointed to vacant posts in the business
• Provide monthly reports, and other information as appropriate, to Finance, ACPO and Performance Departments, to ensure that management have access to all appropriate information regarding resourcing and workforce planning
• In liaison with the appropriate managers and officers, to lead the design and development of new roles in the business, to ensure they address the needs of the organisation in terms of accountabilities

• CIPD qualified or part qualified
• Broad understanding of and experience in the concepts of workforce modelling and forecasting
• Experience of report writing
• Experience of project management

Where specific UK qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents.

Great all-round package