Chief People Officer - UKRI

at  UK Research and Innovation

JOB SUMMARY

Are you an inspirational HR leader who is passionate about driving a strategic people agenda, cultivating talent, and delivering a professional HR function? If so, we encourage you to explore this role and the opportunity it presents to shape the UKRI people strategy and to deliver a culture that aligns with our overall goals and values
The Chief People Officer is the HR Professional Leader for UK Research and Innovation and a member of the UKRI Executive Committee; the role leads in determining the organisation’s strategic People agenda, its culture and the professional HR function that works to deliver on it.
As a member of the UKRI Executive Committee, the Chief People Officer will work with Council and UKRI functional leadership to ensure sound delivery of the people strategy and management of people risk across UKRI throughout its governance structures including the UKRI Board.
As one of UKRI’s senior leaders, the Chief People Officer will be a strong and visible role model and will collaborate with and convene the wider people functions across UKRI to build cohesion and maximise UKRI’s understanding of the priorities of our stakeholders.
The appointed Chief People Officer will be joining UKRI at a time where there is a palpable enthusiasm both politically and across the wider community for change and this will present an incredibly exciting opportunity to effect it at the highest level in one of the most important public sector areas, namely research and innovation.

JOB DESCRIPTION

• The Chief People Officer is responsible for the delivery of the UKRI People Strategy and delivery of the following capabilities for the organisation:
• Ensure strategic plans are in place to implement the longer-term people strategy to support the principles, values and philosophy of UKRI.
• Translate strategic plans into deliverable objectives which add value to UKRI in delivering its strategy.
• Ensure proactive and responsive approaches are in place to react to complex people issues. Lead crisis / incident management when required.
• Operate within and providing functional leadership for the UKRI Governance, Risk and Assurance frameworks with a focus on managing public money well.
• Deliver the most professional and engaging HR support, advice, counsel and coaching through high calibre Business Partnering Teams and personally to the executive team.
• Deliver a cohesive package of fixed and variable reward, benefits, and pensions, in line with public sector pay policy. Simplify and harmonise Employee Policies and guidance alongside maintaining a positive Trades Unions relationship to support ongoing negotiation and consultation for our 9 recognised Trades Unions.
• Resourcing – enhance our performance management, talent management and succession planning offer into an integrated framework from Operational to Strategic Workforce Planning alongside specific talent programmes including our Early Careers.
• Culture, Inclusion & Learning – Develop the heart of our employee experience through leadership in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, creation of a holistic wellbeing offer, developing our leadership journey with and alongside a strong Learning and Development offer.
• Ensure the customer (employee, leader, manager, team) is at the heart of our approach when we are delivering high quality products in challenging time frames to enable and help our clients achieve business as usual and transformational goals

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Human Resources