The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
• Increase saving for, and security in later life
• Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
• Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
• Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity

As a Project Planner HR your main responsibilities will be: 

Inclusive of:

• Ability to undertake data gathering and analysis from a broad range of sources , identifying potential anomalies and potential risks/ issues and evidence base to support that.
• Ability to build on findings and structure a planned project management approach. To work with managers and stakeholders to develop, maintain project plans, risk and issue logs, using standard project management methodologies and tools.  
• Strong interpersonal and Stakeholder engagement and management skills at all levels
• Confident in working with stakeholders and colleagues to produce progress reports and updates,  in various formats in order for these to be shared with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to be able to to prioritise when dealing with competing priorities in order to keep to deadlines.
•  The ability to lead on specific tasks, adhering to defined governance frameworks, delivering quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
• Designing and driving the people plan, including learning and training plan and employee engagement.

• You ll have relevant experience in:
  • Strong Stakeholder Management experience with the ability to communicate at all levels
  • HR generalist with equivalent experience or CIPD level 5
  • Fundamentals in project Management with the ability to manage strategic resourcing projects
  • Design, implement, manage and review employee engagement activities, awaydays etc

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Natalie.Taylor@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.