Job Description

Job reference number 299907

HR Degree Apprenticeship - Level 6 - Nationwide
Starting Salary \xc2\xa322,500 with pay progression
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates. Eligibility required.
Generous annual leave offering of 22.5 days, plus bank holidays, increasing with time served
Full time
Permanent

Location National: Our placements are part of national teams with a mixture of office and home based working. You will be assigned a base location upon offer based on your current location, however some business travel will be required to attend meetings (necessary travel beyond your agreed place of work would be supported by the business).

Do you want to build a career in Human Resources (HR), working alongside enthusiastic and talented people? Do you thrive on new challenges and have the drive and determination to deliver a first-class service for our people? Do you want to earn while you learn with a competitive starting salary?

We have 6 exciting opportunities for the right people to join our HR team through our brand-new HR Degree Apprenticeship Programme, First Class Futures, starting 11th October 2023.

Now is a fantastic time to join Royal Mail as we transform and reinvent our business for future generations. Royal Mail is part of the fabric of the nation, bringing trust to the doorstep and making billions of deliveries possible each year. We are part of local communities and serve our customers with pride. Our 600-colleague strong HR team play a key role in setting our organisation up for success.

Our First Class Futures Programme provides unique exposure and development across the HR function to gain the skills, knowledge, and experience to kickstart a successful career in HR. During the 30-month scheme, you will gain first hand HR experience through 3 x 10-month placements, whilst also being supported to complete a fully funded Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship (Level 6) with Corndel College London.

During your placements, you will gain experience across 3 important areas of our function. Each placement is designed to provide deep insight into the respective area of HR and give you opportunities to lead on meaningful initiatives directly in line with our HR strategic priorities. This will enable you to build a well-rounded HR skill set, whilst also identifying areas of passion and strength to inform your offboarding decisions.

Placement areas include:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): helping us achieve our goal to be an employer of choice across the diverse communities we serve by creating a workplace where colleagues feel they belong and can thrive
• HR Business Partnering: working as part of a team of 60 colleagues helping business leaders to successfully implement Royal Mail\xe2\x80\x99s HR priorities
• HR Service Delivery: being part of the team which provides the core services our people expect day in, day out (including recruitment, employee relations, pay and pensions)
• Reward, policy and performance: helping us to understand the impact HR is having across Royal Mail and using this to create the right policies and approaches to make things even better
• Talent: enabling us to understand the talent that exists across Royal Mail and what we might need in the future, including the development of new talent programmes (e.g. apprenticeships, graduate schemes, leadership development)
• Wellbeing: ensuring our team of 125,000 colleagues have access to the support and services they need to improve their health and wellbeing

Alongside your placements and Degree study, you will benefit from being part of a cohort of like-minded change makers and have opportunities to work with our Chief People Officer, and the HR Executive Team. You will also gain first hand advice through guest speakers, mentors, and buddies on what makes a great HR professional and support to set yourself up for success.

Apprenticeship Overview
Our HR team partners and collaborates with leaders across the business to deliver an HR Strategy that is directly linked to business priorities. It is important that HR professionals truly understand the business to identify where they can add value and enable our people to be at their best; therefore, we have chosen to offer a Chartered Manager Degree as part of this programme to help you understand how our business works, create solutions for sustainable business change and become a trusted HR consultant.

Key modules include:

• Management and Leadership Practice
• Using and Presenting Business Information
• Managing People and Teams
• Finance for Non-Financial Managers
• Managing Business Projects
• Strategic Management
• Research and development projects

Does this sound like the right opportunity for you to build your skills and make a difference?

About You

• You have aspirations to build a career within the HR function
• You are passionate about people and want the opportunity to shape employee experience
• You are driven and able to balance on the job learning with a fast-paced degree, bringing your learning into practice along the way (typically 6 hours of apprenticeship study each week)
• You are willing to learn and bring new ideas into the organisation
• You are a team player, and will thrive as part of a small, supportive cohort

You will also have

• Level 2 Maths and English (GCSE at grade C+)
• Level 3 qualification (A Level/equivalent at grade BBB+/ 120 UCAS Tariff points)

A note from Zareena Brown, Chief People Officer
\xe2\x80\x98I am delighted to launch this opportunity to provide a new route into our HR team at Royal Mail. I am hugely passionate about developing talent and building new skills within the workplace and look forward to personally working with this cohort of First Class Future Talent. The placements available provide real insights into strategic HR teams and the opportunity to work alongside a fantastic HR team with extensive expertise to share. Successful applicants will have a unique opportunity to kickstart their HR career and put their stamp across our HR portfolio\xe2\x80\x99.

Extra Benefits

• Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates. Dependant on eligibility.
• RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer. Dependant on eligibility.
• Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
• Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
• Supportive and generous company sick pay. Dependant on eligibility.
• Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
• Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
• Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
• Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
• Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
• Free stamps at Christmas

*Available only to perm employees

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don\xe2\x80\x99t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here:

Next Steps

Closing Date: Wednesday 6th September 2023. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

The next stage of the selection process will be a virtual assessment centre consisting of competency based and role specific questions as well as a pre-prepared presentation. Virtual assessments will be held on 14th and 15th September 2023.

Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean \xe2\x80\x98your\xe2\x80\x99 interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.

We don\xe2\x80\x99t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we\xe2\x80\x99d love to learn more about you.

Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.

We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here:

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