Associate People Partner (Fixed Term Contract 12 months)

This is an exciting time to join NPL as the organisation embraces the mission and opportunity to provide the measurement capability that underpins the UK's prosperity and quality of life. NPL's vision is to deliver extraordinary impact from excellent science and engineering as an exemplary national laboratory. We work in a hybrid way, with a mix of remote and office working (minimum two days onsite in Teddington). Our close knit, supportive and experienced People Team are looking for an experienced People Partner who loves working closely with leaders and teams to embed change, improve capability and empower managers to resolve ER issues effectively. This is a role of many parts where you will be part of a team that’s advising, guiding and coaching managers to help us deliver our mission and vision. Work in partnership with a Strategic People Partner supporting specific business areas, and with specialist People team functions, to promote and support engagement, talent management resourcing, workforce management, team wellbeing, D&I and L&D initiatives, working to build a high-performance culture • Provide advice and guidance on complex policy development, change and performance management to support business capability • Act as a subject matter expert on complex ER and policy issues, providing quality advice to managers and leaders, supporting them to make risk-informed, confident decisions to enable timely and effective resolution of matters • Support delivery of the People Strategy, taking ownership of specific allocated projects or parts of the annual People cycle, ensuring effective delivery and implementation • Use data to provide informed advice based on analytics and business metrics • Throughout your work, you will ensure that NPL’s interactions with employees are fair, aligned with agreed processes and legally compliant across all employment touchpoints, while mitigating risk.