This is incredibly-rewarding work
What we can offer you
This is incredibly-rewarding work
What we can offer you
Our culture
World-leading science. Cutting-edge technology. Helping people stay safe and thrive. All this is possible because we’ve dedicated ourselves to creating a culture where everyone at every level is empowered to find the answers to some of the world’s most challenging problems. This is where inspirational leadership meets innovation, where individual expression is celebrated and leads to positive local and global impact. We’re proud of our culture of acceptance, respect and freedom. World-changing work is what we do. And a world-leading culture is how we all thrive at work.
Your total reward package
Your package includes your base salary, potential corporate and individual performance-related bonuses, an instant recognition scheme and generous employer pension contributions, but there is a whole lot more to our reward offer. We have core, flexible and social employee benefits available which cover a diverse range of financial and non-financial options to suit employees’ needs.
Generous holiday allowance
Starting at 27.5 days and rising to 32.5 days after five years of service (both figures exclude bank holidays). As well as the flexibility to buy or sell annual leave annually.
Civil Service pension
You’ll automatically qualify to join our alpha pension scheme, part of the Civil Service Pension arrangements. The scheme is recognised as one of the most generous occupational pensions.
Continuous career development
We’ll invest in your training and personal development throughout your career to help you reach your potential. We provide you with the space and freedom to think, innovate and try new things and have professional frameworks aligned to each area. We encourage and support professional memberships, have an array of internal apprenticeship and qualification opportunities and a comprehensive mentoring and coaching programme to name just a few initiatives to create your world of development at the Met Office!
Cycle to work scheme
We can help towards the purchase of bicycles and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel via a salary sacrifice scheme.
Lifestyle support
Whether you wish to utilise our excellent family-friendly schemes, be paid up to 3 days for volunteering with your chosen organisation, have the reassurance of a generous sickness pay scheme or be part of an organisation that is happy to pro-actively talk about flexible working the Met Office wants you to have a great work and lifestyle balance.
Established hybrid working
We have bases all over the UK and some roles allow for you to work abroad so there is the option to travel for work also, we have established amazing hybrid working practices across all of our offices and have enhanced technology to enable office and home-based meetings. We work with employees to agree on a suitable working pattern that works for us both and have various working patterns in place.
Onsite parking and EV charging
We offer onsite free parking at our main offices with disabled parking spots also available. We are ever expanding our eCharging stations and have these available for use at most sites.
Benefits platform
We offer an enhanced discount shopping portal and schemes for employees to make everyday savings including retail shopping such as your weekly food shops, technology products, DIY projects, travel and trips as well as active lifestyle options. We also have an instant recognition scheme with the potential for you to receive vouchers for when you have gone the extra mile to demonstrate our Met Office Values.
Employee wellbeing
Across our offices we have an array of different options to support your wellbeing including 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) with phone and app provisions, lots of EDI initiatives to empower our diverse workforce and a dedicated wellbeing network with regular events to help you thrive!
Commitment to our environment and biodiversity
Our force for good value aligns perfectly with our support for environmental impact improvements. We were the first public sector body to be awarded the prestigious Wildlife Trusts’ Biodiversity Benchmark Award and have different initiatives across our sites from our beautiful biodiversity butterfly garden, toilet water provided from the cooling of our epic supercomputer, car share schemes, team beach clean events and extensive recycling facilities for our everyday use.
It’s good to talk
We have a fantastic group of employee volunteers who form our Mental Health First Aiders as well as Dignity & Respect at Work groups. Alongside our EAP they are in the office or a remote call away to support with a listening ear and can signpost you to helpful resources and support.
ED&I staff networks
We recognise the benefits that networks can offer to our employees not only in terms of better together peer support but also in raising awareness of the challenges some of our employees may experience, and we know that people perform better when they can be themselves.
Recognising great work
From the little improvements to the big business changes, every action we take, whether big or small counts. World-changing work is only made possible by passionate experts driven to do a good job, whatever that is. And we believe people should feel appreciated for the great work they do, whether that be a small thank you for a job well done, to recognition on the global stage.
Working around your needs
We are open to applications from candidates of all backgrounds and abilities. For people returning to work after a career break, or with caring responsibilities for whom full-time working isn’t ideal we have a range of family-friendly policies in place. Whatever your needs or situation, we will do our best to agree on a working pattern that suits you. From the possibility of job sharing to compressed hours and homeworking, maternity, paternity, adoption and shared parental leave and in some cases, flexibility on working location.
Start here, go anywhere
From beginnings in meteorology to a career in communications, from science to social media, we’ve got so many examples of colleagues who have developed extraordinary career paths. We will give you the freedom to be curious to try new things and explore your interests. If you are drawn to a business area and want to try it, we’ll support you to get there. After all, your world of development is all about helping you to be the best that you can be, in whatever direction you choose. And we’ll set you up for every success to go for it.