Job Description
Job title: HR Director for Business Partnering
Location: This role can be based in the following DWP Hub locations Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield. Hybrid working available, 60% in office.
Package & Benefits: salary of £95,000-£115,000 (plus generous annual leave and 28.97 employer pension contribution).
Allen Lane is partnering exclusively with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) as they seek a permanent HR Director for Business Partnering. This is an SCS2 grade role and an outstanding opportunity to work in the largest Civil Service Department that touches the lives of citizens the length and breadth of the UK.
This is a critical role, driving the department’s digital transformation and channel shift journey, through partnering at the heart of it. A truly unique career opportunity that will challenge and reward, where you have the opportunity to play a significant role in getting people into work and helping people build their careers.
DWP serves over 22 million customers annually – keeping children out of poverty; helping people without jobs to find work so that they can support themselves and their families; ensuring the most vulnerable in society are protected. Now more than ever, the role that DWP plays in supporting society is vital.
There’s never been a more important and exciting time to work in People and Capability in DWP. We are a critical function as DWP delivers both scaling up and transformation to support the biggest welfare reform in a generation.
The HR Director for Business Partnering leads a team of 225 people to provide partnering and HR Advice and Guidance services in support of our 85,000 colleagues across 980 sites. This is a critical role and provides a challenge with both scale and scope. We are looking for a HR professional with experience of working collaboratively both within and across complex organisations to deliver strategic people outcomes.
The successful applicant will lead DWP's HR Business Partnering and HR Casework Services (225 colleagues, 6 direct reports). You will lead and work with multiple senior stakeholders to design people strategies and implement people related change in business areas engaging across the whole system and the full multi-disciplinary expertise of the Department. You will also have a partnering relationship with a member of the DWP executive team.
You will be required to advise and influence across the Government People Group, sitting on several cross-Government and Departmental decision making and assurance groups. You will be accountable for driving, developing and delivering local people strategies and plans, and end-to-end HR services to enable the transformation of the Department. This includes aspects such as strategic workforce planning, TUPE, building capability, diversity, inclusion, talent management and reward. Given the remit of this role there is also an emphasis on SCS resourcing and talent across 15 professions.
For a full view of the role’s responsibilities, please review the candidate pack.
In order to be effective in post, applicants must give evidence and examples of proven experience of each of the following essential selection criteria :
* Deep understanding, professional HR knowledge and curiosity about current best practice people issues, For example, experience of driving the people aspects of technology led, business transformation in an organisation of scale and complexity.
* Strong understanding of the data and analytics that underpin effective decision-making and risk management in people-related matters and communicate complex issues clearly.
* Experience of developing and driving people and business strategy in an organisation at the apex of change and transformation.
* Experience working at a whole system level to develop approaches based on a deep understanding of customers, and the levers to effect positive outcomes .
* Strong evidence of successfully influencing and managing complex senior stakeholder relationships, including at the most senior levels, in a large, multi-divisional, multi-site organisation of appropriate scale, where there are dependencies across different business areas.
* Extensive experience of providing visible and collaborative leadership within a complex organisation with a proven ability to build high performing teams – particularly teams that operate across organisational boundaries, growing confidence and capability, employee engagement, and an inclusive culture.
Applicants should be a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or prepared to work towards this.
Prior Civil Service experience is not a pre-requisite, however, applicants must demonstrate the ability to operate at scale in a complex environment. DWP are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our organisation, we welcome applications to help us reflect the citizens we serve.
This role can be based in the following DWP Hub locations Birmingham, Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield .
Hybrid working policy: The expectation is that that this role would require the successful candidate to be in the office more than 60% of the time. Travel to other DWP and official locations including London is required which may include overnight stays.
Alongside your salary, the Department for Work and Pensions contributes 28.97% towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Applicants will be required to provide an up-to-date CV and supporting statement (up to 1,250 words) detailing how you meet the role’s requirements. You will also provide a completed diversity monitoring form.
The closing date for applications is Monday 18th October 2024 at 17:00.
To apply, please email DWP@allenlane.co.uk.
The appointed candidate is required to be security cleared to Security Check (SC) level to undertake the role. Candidates who do not already have this level of clearance can have this undertaken post-appointment. In all cases the appointment remains conditional on this level of security clearance.