HR Officer People Policy Governance

HR Officer People Policy Governance 11094 Fixed Term Contract/ Secondment Opportunity until 31 March 2028 37 hours per week 29064 to 31022 per annum (Scale F) County Hall Hybrid working

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Human Resources (HR) People Policy Governance team. We are responsible for implementing and developing the County Councils employment offer providing HR expertise and delivering HR and other organisation priorities. We also manage employee benefits and pay decisions and reviews.

In this varied role you will administer freedom of information (FOI) and subject access requests (SARs) and aspects of our employee pay and benefits. You will also support team members on projects and may be asked to attend project meetings carry out research collate findings into reports and provide recommendations.

Other work will include updating policies and supporting guidance responding to enquiries from managers and employees calculating pay and audit information writing communications and general team administration.

You will need good investigation and analytical skills and the ability to work to set timescales and manage your workload.

You will work on Excel spreadsheets for pay calculations and auditing so will need attention to detail and ability to check that data formulas and sums are correct. We also want to expand our use of SharePoint so a good understanding of IT systems and processes or the ability to pick up technical IT instructions quickly is required.

You need to be flexible and adapt as priorities change and confident enough to contribute your ideas to team discussions and to work with people at all levels of the organisation.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role please contact Annilee Ketchell on .

These are some benefits you can enjoy by working for Norfolk County Council:

• Competitive salary

• Generous holiday entitlement

• Health and Wellbeing services including fast-track physiotherapy and a free counselling service

• Flexible working opportunities including flexi-time part time remote and hybrid working dependent on your job role and business need.

• Financial benefits such as:

  • Norfolk Rewardsour employee discounts programme which helps yousave money on almost anything from everyday groceries and clothes to holidays new technology gym membership trips to the cinema and days out.

  • A Blue Light card for Fire Service and Social Care Workers

  • Relocation expenses (where applicable)

  • An advance of your expenses if you travel for work

  • Local Government Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution life assurance death in service payments and dependants pensions

  • Tax efficient ways of getting extra pension and new bikes

  • Access to our tax efficient car lease scheme for greener travel enabling you to lease a brand new ultra-low emission vehicle (subject to eligibility)

  • A payment if you refer someone you know to a hard to fill job

We want our people to be inspired and motivated to work well together make the most of our workspaces enjoy a healthy work-life balance and deliver excellent services to Norfolk and its people. Flexibility is built into the way we work with hybrid working a key feature formany roles. Our technology platform and equipment are first class enabling you to connect and collaborate remotely. We ask that you have in place good Broadband connectivity.

Before you apply we recommend reading the full Job Description and Person Specificationto help you demonstrate how you meet the criteria. You can also find information on ourTerms and Conditionshere.

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We would like to make you aware that priority consideration for this post may be given to current employees who are at risk due to restructure within the organisation or are in a redeployment position.

Redeployment closing date: 26 August 2026 23:59

All other applicants closing date: 11 September 2026 23:59