Employee Relations Advisor

Job Introduction

We’re looking for an exceptional Employee Relations Advisor to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Employee Relations Advisor, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

You will provide a pragmatic, professional and pro-active range of employee relations coaching and advice-based services to managers, enabling them to improve levels of engagement and productivity from their people whilst feeling confident and empowered to manage employment matters on behalf of the organisation.

Your key duties:

• Be an employee relations (ER) expert by nature - providing best practice ER case support and advice, constantly keeping up with employment law/wider CPD and policy change. Utilising on-going knowledge and ER experience to continuously identify and apply improvements for the service.
• Build strong and respected working relationships with various stakeholders – key links with directorate areas creating inroads for pro-active led improvement work for both people and data driven enhancements as well as working collaboratively with the Trade Union (Prospect).
• Support continuous service improvement – no day is ever the same, be an explorer and solution finder, challenge the status quo on where you can add value to improving our practices and employee services.
• Be a passionate people professional – you champion and widely promote wellbeing, EDI and improvement initiatives and you live and breathe your work, focused on quality, and ensure ethical practice consistently happens, always looking to horizon scan and enhance the overall Met Office Employee Experience.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

As our Employee Relations Advisor, your total reward package will be up to £49,448 annually, which includes:

• £35,145 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

Expert by nature in Employee relations with practical advisory experience in Employee Relations gained from a complex organisation including managing a wide range of complex ER cases and Employment Tribunal preparation and support. (Lead criteria)

Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and ER best practice and examples of where you have evolved policy or practice to meet changing requirements.

You can demonstrate how you live and breathe ER with the proven ability to influence and proactively advise managers and business stakeholders.

In line with our better together value you have experience in coaching and developing others in people management practices inside the team and across the organisation.

Strong stakeholder management, communication and organisational skills.

The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date: 30th June 2026 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 13th July 2026. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

Using AI in your application

We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and wish to make a complaint, then in the first instance you should contact us at: careers@metoffice.gov.uk If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: info@csc.gov.uk