Salary
Period of appointment
Job description
The Utility Regulator is seeking to appoint a permanent:
HR Officer
Protecting Northern Ireland’s energy and water consumers, today and tomorrow is what we do.
This is an exciting time to join us. We are expanding as an organisation to fully support Northern Ireland in meeting the challenges of climate change, the continued cost-of-living crisis and ensuring the continuity of energy and water supplies.
Electricity, gas and water are essential services that support all homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. As an economic regulator, it is our role to enable, incentivise and hold energy and water companies to account for providing the very best levels of service and price for consumers both now and in the future.
HR Officer
Working as an HR Officer, you will be responsible for working proactively as part of the HR Team, to assist the HR Manager and HR Business Partners, by providing operational support across a broad generalist HR remit. This includes recruitment and selection, equality, attendance management, employee relations, performance management, learning and development, wellbeing initiatives and payroll preparation.
The HR Officer will act as a first point of contact dealing with a wide range of employee queries and will also update and maintain HR systems and information to ensure accurate reporting.
This role will require a well-organised individual who can work flexibly and collaboratively in a professional manner to contribute to the provision and development of a broad ranging generalist HR service.
General information
Northern Ireland continues to have an under-representation of women across STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industries, we are proud to support women in STEM.
We are an equal opportunity and ‘Disability Confident’ employer. As people with a disability and those from ethnic minority communities are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would welcome applications from these groups.
We offer an attractive package including a competitive starting salary with stepped increases per annum, alongside a range of other benefits including hybrid working, NI Civil Service pension arrangements and 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after two years) and an additional 12 public and privilege days.
Contact us at recruitment@uregni.gov.uk if you would like to talk to someone about the work we do and what it’s like working here.