HR Business Partner

We’re Nominet – a world-leading domain name registry. For over 25 years, we’ve been operating at the heart of internet infrastructure. While we're best known for running .UK domains, we also help protect public services from cyber threat.

Our aim is to create a world which is more connected, inclusive and secure. We know that technology has the power to transform lives by creating opportunities and providing support where it’s needed most.

As a public benefit company, our work funds the ability to make a positive impact on society. We’ve donated millions to projects that use technology to improve peoples’ lives and have committed to delivering £60m worth of support over the next three years.

We understand the impact the Internet has on the environment and are committed to helping the UK reach Net Zero by 2050. We’re already a Carbon Neutral company through offsetting our emissions and will continue to work on reducing our footprint.

About the role: 

We’re an amazing team and are looking for someone who is as passionate about joining the dots and interdependencies across our people focused programmes shaping challenges into simple narrative and exceptional employee experiences. You will be part of their functional leadership team to partner and develop their agenda.  

This is a great opportunity offering variety and challenge whilst working in close partnership with a key customer group whilst focusing on critical people priorities in our people strategy for the wider business.  

The essential bits: 

You will have demonstrable experience as a generalist HRBP working within the tech sector and a track record of successful delivery of people programmes which may include a focus on cultural change or people engagement initiatives. You will be contributing to medium-term strategic planning and delivering outcomes aligned to business strategy therefore ideally being CIPD qualified with experience of design and change delivery project experience. 

About you and your experience: 

You’ll be a great influencer who recognises the need to be customer and business centric and be able to confidently flex and adapt your approach to enable share knowledge, collaborate and create an impeccable HR experience.  

You will be analytical with an ability to weigh up and take decisions when there are unknowns and work across a range of HR specialisms to drive the people agenda on talent capability and development.  

You will be proactive to conduct research and move agendas forward at pace, whilst ensuring your creative thinking is underpinned by detailed plans to ensure their success.  

What’s in it for you?  

The Nominet way of working empowers our people to flex between home and the office. We operate on a Hybrid basis. This empowers everyone to take ownership day to day, balancing the needs of our people and business. You will be required to come into the Oxford office for a min of 20% of the month to ensure we have a collaborative and connected working environment across the HR team and wider business.  

Core benefits that include 30 days annual leave, pension scheme, performance related bonus scheme, private medical cover, cash benefits scheme, life assurance, EAP - as well as a wide range of flexible benefits including Critical illness, Dental Insurance, Health Assessments and Cycle2Work scheme. We have great facilities in our workspace which include an on-site gym and shower facilities, free car parking, broad range of tools and resources to support your personal and professional development. 

We are a public benefit organisation and as well as supporting some great organisations we also support our team members to give something back in their local community via our Give Hub scheme. 

Finally, we are a sociable bunch and have an active social committee who work hard to arrange lots of really great events and get togethers to keep us all connected. 

Salary

We don't advertise salary as we have a degree of flexibility and would rather see all applications on their merit. We appreciate it's a pretty important part of the process and we're happy to have a conversation before you apply. 

Data protection

If you choose to explore an opportunity, and subsequently share your CV or other personal details with Nominet, these details will be held by Nominet for 12 months in accordance with our Privacy Policy and used by our recruitment team and hiring managers in the process to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Nominet.  If you would like Nominet to delete or update your details at any time, please follow the steps set out in the Privacy Policy describing your individual rights.  If you have any questions about Nominet’s data protection practices, please email: dpo@nominet.uk

Equal opportunities

Cybersecurity is a community effort. That’s why we’re committed to building an inclusive, diverse community that celebrates and welcomes everyone – unless they’re a cybercriminal, of course.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and we’d encourage you to join us whatever your background.

We consider everyone equally: your race, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, marital status, nationality, or any other protected characteristic won’t affect your application.

We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

Security checks

All roles working for Nominet will be subject to a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Some roles due to the nature of their work, will require additional security clearance.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with us.