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UKCEH People Strategy 2021
A B O UT O U R PEO PL E ST R AT EG Y
Introduction ‘Scientific curiosity,
integrity and
transparency are
at the heart of
how we work’
Our ambition
We seek to understand the environment, how it
sustains life, and the human impact on it – so that
together, people and nature can prosper.
About our people strategy
The purpose of our people strategy and associated
action plan is to establish and communicate:
• UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) values
• The expertise and skills we need
• The way we will work together within UKCEH and with partners and customers
• The people related actions which underpin delivery of the UKCEH Strategy
Future vision
Excellence through integrity
and teamwork
Front cover image -
Stefanie Schäfer and Abhijit We will work together to advance scientific
Kumar of the MonkeyFeverRisk knowledge, build innovative solutions,
project, which aims to better our
understanding of a tick-transmitted understand stakeholder and funder needs,
zoonotic viral disease called Kyasanur deliver excellent world class outputs to meet
Forest Disease (KFD). This affects
communities in the Western Ghat
these requirements and continue to build skills
mountain range in Southern India. and knowledge for the future.
Photo by Sarah Burthe, UKCEH.
All other photos - UKCEH.
Illustrations - Shutterstock.
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PEO PL E ST R AT EG Y - A I M S OUR PEOPLE
People strategy - UKCEH people
aims
Associated Research Fellows
1. Provide world class scientific expertise. 5. Work together effectively, seeking
to innovate and demonstrating
2. Provide professional management and continuous improvement. Scientists
infrastructure, services and support
functions aligned with our science strategy. 6. Facilitate flexible and agile (open ended)
responses to changing needs. Postgraduate
3. Ensure that the UKCEH values - Research
7. Provide a working environment that
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excellence, integrity and teamwork - are Students
at the heart of everything we do. promotes dignity and respect for all
and is inclusive, that is: individual
4. Strive for excellence: effectively balancing differences and the contributions
cost, quality and time in our delivery of
funder requirements.
of all are recognised and valued.
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8. Support the development and
wellbeing of all in UKCEH to achieve
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our potential and realise the UKCEH
ambition through our diversity.
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Short Term
160
Appointments
Research Associate
Scientists
Leadership, professional management,
IT, services and support staff
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O U R ST R AT EG I C PEO PL E CO M M I T M E N TS O U R ST R AT EG I C PEO PL E CO M M I T M E N TS
Our strategic people EXCELLENCE
commitments Scientific, technical, engineering and
mathematical (STEM) skills
• UKCEH science requires high levels of other sectors. These roles will also benefit
expertise and innovative approaches across from a three-year structured learning and
a particularly broad range of disciplines and development programme, as part of our
EXCELLENCE scales. We combine longstanding capability, Research Associate Scheme.
novel application of existing skills and new
• Further enhanced science skills and roles
• •
expertise through Research Associates
needed to meet our goals are envisaged in
We ensure open, transparent and We will invest in scientific, professional and postgraduate researchers to deliver
the following fields over 2021 and 2022:
•
merit based recruitment at all levels, management and business skills innovation and excellence.
which attracts excellent people,
using fair and inclusive selection
development for all our people,
focussed on realising potential • We have created exciting new
Data science including spatial
data analytics and statistics.
and appointment practices. and encouraging innovation to
enable delivery of our strategy and
opportunities for skilled engineers,
mathematicians, statisticians, physicists, • Modelling including hydrological
modelling, spatial modelling and
and data specialists (e.g. in AI/machine
realisation of the UKCEH ambition. integrated impact modelling.
learning) as we seek to expand our existing
technical capability in environmental data
collection and analysis. This enables us
• Air pollution and biological
risks for human health.
to support the investment in large scale
infrastructure to monitor environmental • Molecular expertise including
bioinformatics.
•
change, with cutting-edge data science to
rapidly assess new climate policies. New Quantitative ecology.
roles have been created, working as part
• Earth observation expertise.
of a team to develop and deliver new skills
and capabilities for environmental sciences, • Analytical chemistry with specialisms
in organic analysis.
both in UKCEH and with our partners
across academia, research centres and
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EXCELLENCE EXCELLENCE
Professional management, infrastructure, Performance management and development
services and support
• Our performance management approach • We will ensure performance management
• To support our partnership approach • We will continue to invest in learning and will evolve to develop our strategic and development is based upon:
and international revenue growth we are development in the IT skills essential to priorities and key strengths:
•
•
Seeking to continually improve
building capability in due diligence, legal our delivery: both to support and protect Innovative approaches for continuous performance to achieve potential,
expertise and business development to our underpinning IT infrastructure as an improvement and development.
•
•
Seeking to learn and develop in
seek and respond appropriately to funder independent organisation and to enable
Scientific excellence. accordance with UKCEH needs.
•
opportunities. effective innovation in scientific and
•
Realistic forward job planning of aims
business systems. High levels of expertise across a broad
•
Our excellent quality output and ISO and objectives by each individual, with
range of disciplines delivering integrated
9001 accreditation will be sustained We will support our people, including our attention to workload management.
•
science through teamwork.
•
and improved through learning and potential future leaders, to continuously
Clear, timely, honest, constructive
development investment in programme develop leadership and management skills, Working in partnership with academic
feedback: focussed on development
and project management following industry including business and science leadership institutions, fellow research institutes,
with praise and improvement aims
best practice, including JCoPR. qualities for a changing environment. industry and policy makers.
• •
recorded in annual appraisals.
We seek to increase productivity for
UKCEH as a whole through improved
We will offer development opportunities to
enable all within UKCEH to achieve their • Expectation that individuals will seek
out and address all feedback positively.
•
processes and business systems: potential to support our strategic priorities.
training to utilise these effectively This means continuously developing The importance of delivery in
and resourcing to balance optimum knowledge and skills to provide cutting- accordance with our values
delivery and organisational cost. edge expertise, innovative solutions and and core expectations.
sound expertise which is authoritative and
credible to stakeholders and funders.
• Understanding that support for
•
wellbeing, physical and mental health
Participation in our Research Associate underpin sustainable great performance.
EXCELLENCE
Scheme offers early career scientists
a range of learning and development
• Best practice of other research
organisations, seeking to learn
opportunities; developing their skills
from others.
•
to meet long term science needs and
support their future aspirations. Technical All Postgraduate Researchers hosted by
Workforce planning and recruitment UKCEH will be effectively supported to
and professional apprenticeships offer
• A strategic forward planning approach to
workforce planning and recruitment will be
• Recruitment practices will be reviewed
and benchmarked against diversity best
qualification opportunities alongside on-
the-job learning.
achieve their qualifications and provided
with appropriate learning and development
further developed to forecast staffing need
and reduced recruitment delivery delay.
practice to provide UKCEH with a fully
diverse talent pool and to ensure the best
• Promotion will be conducted using a
transparent, applicant-driven process,
opportunities and welfare support. UKCEH
supervisors will be supported to recruit and
• Science Areas will be supported to plan
and resource their project needs with
candidates are attracted and appointed. providing feedback to applicants and
based on long term organisational need.
supervise Postgraduate Researchers in line
with sector best practice.
appropriate delegations to enable swift
decision making.
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UKCEH
Review
People
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INTEGRITY TEAMWORK
• We will provide a working environment • We seek to maintain and further
Reward and recognition
that promotes dignity and respect for all.
Our values and core expectations set out
progress our highly proactive health and
safety culture, supporting physical and
• Our approach will reflect the importance
of teamwork and the contribution made
• We aim to be an employer of choice
in our total offering of both terms of
how we will work together to achieve mental health through the H&S Strategy by all to the success of UKCEH. We employment and a stimulating and
this and create an environment which is Implementation plan. aim at a culture of appreciation where supportive working environment; pay
inclusive, that is: individual differences
and the contributions of all employees are • We seek to engage all our people to
develop and deliver our leading-edge
people feel valued and recognised
for their efforts and performance.
and reward will balance market and
affordability factors for sustainability.
•
recognised and valued.
Ethics, Code of Conduct and Safeguarding
environmental policy and proactively
pursue the action plan for its delivery.
• We will evaluate and develop our
approach to ensure that both financial
• We will reflect the importance of
responsiveness, flexibility, continuous
– we will ensure all staff and post
graduate researchers are aware, confident • Openness and transparency – we continue
to consult staff regularly via our People
and non-financial recognition of team
and individual achievements reflect our
improvement and teamwork, essential
to our operating model, in reward
and supported to operate fully in appreciation of the contribution of all and recognition of performance
and Communication (staff consultation)
accordance with these policies, including roles to our delivery and sustainability. by ensuring criteria for reward
Team (PACT) and formal Union meetings
professional relationships with stakeholders.
Management action will be taken promptly
of the Joint Consultation and Negotiation
Committee (JCNC). We engage and
• Financial reward is underpinned by
an equal pay policy and the principle
emphasise these elements.
to address any issues arising.
•
consult with managers across science of transparency and consistency in
We will ensure all staff are made aware and infrastructure through the Science policies and their application.
of our policies and core expectations Resourcing Committee reporting to Science
and are suitably trained to carry out their Board, Infrastructure Management Team
roles. This will include full awareness of and the Senior Management Forum.
and compliance with legal and funder
obligations, keeping up-to-date with change.
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TEAMWORK TEAMWORK
Working culture Working culture
• We will continue to provide a working
environment and conditions which
• We will seek to further develop links and
understanding across the organisation:
• We will utilise data from exit questionnaire
results to bring understanding of areas for
• We have recognised that a specific action
plan is required to address longstanding
support flexibility and wellbeing, recognise between functions and science and across improvement and focus for retention. diversity challenges effectively and this will
and motivate individuals and provide functions, Science Areas and sites.
• be taken forward proactively under the key
•
We will build respect in professionalism
opportunities for job growth and career areas of:
•
Conduct expectations are clearly defined, and new ideas, valuing new staff and
development. This will be re-evaluated
we expect everyone to abide by them contributions from all ages and bands Collecting relevant data to
in light of the changing world of work to
to ensure UKCEH provides a safe and through communication of different understand our diversity.
ensure a match to both changing external
and internal need and opportunity.
supportive working environment in which team skills and knowledge, training in
• Promoting an inclusive culture.
• We encourage all science staff to combine
the wellbeing of all provides a platform for
our success.
empowerment skills and delegation
of decision making to appropriate • Supporting achievement of potential.
their individual expertise with skills of
others across UKCEH to provide a systems • We seek to further develop our working
levels to support career development
and succession opportunity.
• Key external standards such as UK
Researcher Concordat and Investors in
•
culture as one which is fully inclusive and
approach to integrated science solutions, People will continue to be used as external
provides a sense of belonging with strong We value diversity within our
and (we will) support those who take a benchmarks to inform our consultative
emphasis on working together: informing workforce for the variety of talents
proactive role in pulling together and approach to matching organisational needs
and listening at all levels and through and perspectives it provides to our
managing these integrated teams. and expectations with those of our people.
•
consultation with staff representatives, performance. We will increase that
We seek to take up the opportunities particularly recognised unions. diversity and extend opportunity.
of distributed and remote working and
resolve the challenges it brings, in order to • We will ensure the important role
of postgraduate researchers in
• We will promote equality of opportunity
and equitable treatment for all
maximise the benefits, minimise the risks
UKCEH is recognised appropriately existing and prospective employees,
and enable safe and effective working
and that they are fully represented postgraduate researchers, students
conditions for all.
in feedback fora and surveys. and visitors; ensuring job and role
selection is based on skills, knowledge
and demonstration of our values.
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U KC E H VA LU E S U KC E H VA LU E S
UKCEH values INTEGRITY
2 INTEGRITY – MAINTAIN HIGHEST STANDARDS OF RESEARCH
1. Excellence - delivering AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
world class science
supporting global Core expectations:
environmental challenges;
1.1 Reach conclusions based on robust and 2.5 Recognise appropriately the
valued by stakeholders ethical scientific and professional practice. contributions of others.
and meeting funder
requirements. 2.2 Follow UKCEH policies and procedures 2.6 Develop and maintain professional
and lead colleagues to do so. relationships with stakeholders and
2. Integrity - maintaining customers, representing UKCEH
2.3 Seek good value for money, complying
the highest standards of appropriately and respecting
with financial policies and procedures.
research and professional diversity and cultural difference.
ethics and impartiality. 2.4 Be open and transparent about reasons
2.7 Disclose and actively manage any conflicts
for decisions and in undertaking activities.
3. Teamwork - working of interest, maintaining ethical standards.
together effectively with
colleagues, partners and
customers to achieve
long-term success.
TEAMWORK
Core expectations link
to each of these values.
3 TEAMWORK – WORKING TOGETHER EFFECTIVELY WITH
COLLEAGUES, PARTNERS AND CUSTOMERS TO ACHIEVE
LONG-TERM SUCCESS
EXCELLENCE Core expectations:
Whether a team member, project or line 3.6 Be flexible to adapt to
manager, strive for high performance and organisational need.
1 EXCELLENCE – DELIVERY FOCUS continuous improvement to meet UKCEH 3.7 Listen to colleagues, staff and managers
needs through the following: with respect and challenge constructively.
Core expectations:
3.1 Carry out risk management 3.8 Engage effectively in communication
1.1 Demonstrate a continuous 1.5 Take responsibility for achieving the best responsibilities effectively e.g. health, through meetings and in writing.
improvement approach. outcome within agreed stakeholder and safety and information security.
customer requirements (balancing quality 3.9 Value and respect diversity
1.2 Seek to make a positive impact. 3.2 Treat others respectfully and and cultural difference.
with cost and time).
1.3 Think and act proactively and innovatively professionally, respecting confidentiality.
1.6 Prioritise and plan effectively. 3.10 Deal positively with change
to meet changing priorities. 3.4 Work collaboratively. and help others to do so.
1.4 Apply the skills appropriate to your role: 3.5 Act inclusively: share ideas, opportunities, 3.11 Support others’ wellbeing and
learn from feedback and undertake information and data etc across UKCEH. development as well as your own.
continuous professional development.
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