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Job summary
The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of progressive Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2024 until July 2025.
What we are offering
Were looking for an exceptional People Professional – Industrial Placement 2024 to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our People Professional – Industrial Placement 2024 you will work a hybrid pattern of homeworking, spending at least one day a week in our Exeter HQ. You can choose to work more frequently in our state-of-the-art office if you’d prefer.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we’ll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone
Why join us?
We invest in our people to unlock their full potential. As our People Professional – Industrial Placement 2024, we will support you to develop and thrive to be the best you can be. We champion positive physical and mental health in the workplace and are committed to being an inclusive organisation, providing a working culture that actively values an equal and diverse workforce.
As our People Professional – Industrial Placement 2024, your starting salary will be £25606.00.
Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2025, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you complete your University studies.
Who we are:
We provide critical weather services and world-leading climate science to deliver extraordinary impact and benefit across the globe. Our work helps people make better decisions to stay safe and thrive.
Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. Youll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.
Together:
- Were a force for good – focusing on our environmental and social impact
- Were experts by nature – always learning and developing to do things better
- We live and breathe it – putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- Were better together – understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- We keep evolving – pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Find out more about our values – https://bit.ly/3fokaRD
Job description
Job Purpose:
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placement across the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.
As our People Professional Industrial Placement you will have a passion for people and an opportunity to work with a range of experts in people related practices including employee experience, resourcing, learning & development, people analytics and business partnering.
Following an induction to the breadth of our People Directorate, you will spend 8 months developing your understanding and practical application of people policy and management. Working in our People Services Team focusing on resourcing and employee experience before choosing where you spend your final 4 months. There will be opportunities within our People Development and Reward & Partners teams.
In addition, you will undertake two projects, utilizing your views to for example:
- Develop a life event package and deliver via our People Centre.
- Review/revise our People Professions communications & engagement.
- Identify, develop and deliver a learning intervention.
- Create resources that our ambassadors can use at university careers talks/events or that can be used online as part of our careers website/ recruitment platform.
- Investigate whether creating a cohort of student ambassadors would be beneficial to the Met Office, and if so, how and who.
- Assist in the evaluation of the in-person work experience placements for school-aged students.
Person specification
Essential Qualifications, Skills & Abilities:
- Evidence that you push yourself to keep evolving.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Attention to detail (awareness of GDPR / data protection requirement).
- Demonstrate a willingness to learn and take on new responsibilities.
- A proven ability to work well as a member of a team.
Benefits
Why should I choose the Met Office?
- An opportunity to work within our People Directorate recognised by CIPD as a People Development Partner
- Flexible hours and hybrid working
- Annual Leave of 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) and an option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave
- Access to discounted shopping on a range of retail, leisure and lifestyle categories.
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Selection process details
How to apply:
If you share our values, wed love to hear from you. Apply by clicking the link below and complete the application form making sure to provide evidence in your examples how you meet each of the essential criteria – we recommend candidates use the CARL (Context, Action, Result and Learning) method for presenting evidence of skills and taking a read through the application tips document attached to the bottom of this advert.
Closing date 21/01/2024 at 23:59 with interviews commencing from 20/02/2024. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date has passed.
If successful, please note we are unable to offer expenses for travel to your normal place of work. This post is contractually aligned to Exeter HQ, please ask at interview if you would like extra clarity on how often this requirement is likely to be.
How we can help:
If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via askHR@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We understand that great minds dont always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK – please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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