Senior HR Business Partner

Can you develop strong relationships with senior leaders to shape and implement strategic HR solutions? Do you support and challenge leaders to drive performance, capability, and engagement across teams? Have you led and developed a team of HR professionals? If so, we'd love to hear from you! The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) helps keep Britain moving, safely and sustainably.

We do this by helping people through a lifetime of safe and sustainable journeys, helping them keep their vehicles safe to drive, and protecting them from unsafe drivers and vehicles.

• make roads safer
• improve services for our customers
• make road transport greener and healthier
• harness the potential of technology and data
• grow and level up the economy

• 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 and 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 Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency - Department for Transport Careers. Are you ready to shape the future of our workforce? As a Senior HR Business Partner you'll lead a team of HR Business Partners, working side by side with senior leaders to deliver impactful, strategic HR solutions. You'll drive performance, boost engagement, and help create a culture where people thrive.

From influencing policy to leading change, you'll play a key role in delivering real value for colleagues and customers.

Managing your team of professionals with integrity using engaging, inclusive and respectful leadership qualities, making sure capability, development needs, and aspirations are nurtured and met. Working with your fellow People directorate leaders in a joined‑up and cohesive way, making sure there is effective strategic planning and communications, avoiding duplication and providing value‑for‑money. Build strong, engaging and collaborative relationships across DVSA, the Department, wider Civil Service and external organisations.

Provide professional advice, guidance and subject matter expertise to the Directors and senior leaders to enable them to make informed strategic people‑management decisions for the Agency. Ensure the use of robust business intelligence and management information to enable evidence‑based, people‑management decisions to be taken by DVSA leaders. Lead the HR inputs to all restructures within business areas. Scope and deliver any organisational design and structure improvements and advise on and implement migration arrangements.

Maintain and foster sound employee relations by advising and guiding managers on current legislation and lead on complex employee relations aspects of proposed changes to organisational structures, ensuring the full and timely application of all support processes. Great line‑management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need.

We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high‑volume, seasonal and high‑peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non‑disabled people.

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