HR recruits needed as Environment Agency prepares for redundancies
3 January 2014
As the UK faces further floods, redundancies that are expected to affect flood responses continue at the Environment Agency. Meanwhile, its HR team is looking to add to its ranks.
Fri, 3 Jan 2014As the UK faces further floods, redundancies that are expected to affect flood responses continue at the Environment Agency. Meanwhile, its HR team is looking to add to its ranks.
Reports that the non-departmental public body would make around 1,700 staff redundant, reducing its headcount to 9,700 by October 2014, first appeared last October.
According to the website of environment management publication The ENDS Report, the organisation’s chief executive officer Paul Leinster last year said the cuts were “going to be painful” and that “flood risk maintenance will be impacted”.
As the UK faces renewed flooding today and over coming days, this figure has resurfaced, although the agency’s press office said it was today unable to handle any calls not related to the flooding itself.
While the Environment Agency may be shedding staff overall, the HR team is swimming against the tide with two job adverts for a total of eight 12-month, fixed-term contracts for HR business partners (five) and specialists (three) currently appearing on its careers pages.
While it is not expressly clear whether these roles involve administering the redundancies expected, the five new business partners must, per the job description, “have experience of supporting senior customers through a period of change”.
Six of the jobs have “flexible” locations – which reflects not just modern HR trends, but also the fact that we don’t know just how much of the UK might be under water when applications close next week.
Reports that the non-departmental public body would make around 1,700 staff redundant, reducing its headcount to 9,700 by October 2014, first appeared last October.
According to the website of environment management publication The ENDS Report, the organisation’s chief executive officer Paul Leinster last year said the cuts were “going to be painful” and that “flood risk maintenance will be impacted”.
As the UK faces renewed flooding today and over coming days, this figure has resurfaced, although the agency’s press office said it was today unable to handle any calls not related to the flooding itself.
While the Environment Agency may be shedding staff overall, the HR team is swimming against the tide with two job adverts for a total of eight 12-month, fixed-term contracts for HR business partners (five) and specialists (three) currently appearing on its careers pages.
While it is not expressly clear whether these roles involve administering the redundancies expected, the five new business partners must, per the job description, “have experience of supporting senior customers through a period of change”.
Six of the jobs have “flexible” locations – which reflects not just modern HR trends, but also the fact that we don’t know just how much of the UK might be under water when applications close next week.
