JOB SUMMARY
The Deputy Director HR: Workforce strategy and talent role is a key part of the HR Directorate.
The role is responsible for the department’s people strategy, strategic workforce planning, people analytics, and strategic talent management.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Being a visible DfE leader who lives the leadership statement (inspiring, confident, empowering), fosters a diverse and inclusive culture and develops teams where talent is nurtured and high standards, continuous development and learning are embedded. Support and role model any DFE behaviours identified as a priority as part of our People Strategic Plan.
- Managing budgets, resources, and expenditure proposals for the areas of direct accountability and as a member of HR’s senior leadership team delivering HR programmes, achieving further efficiencies and maintaining an effective HR workforce headcount ratio.
- Being a member of the HR Senior Leadership Team and regularly attending the department’s People Committee, SCS workforce committee and Leadership Team to present key items. Deputising for the Director off HR and Transformation when required.
- Providing effective talent development options for Senior Civil Servants and Senior Leaders in our organisation.
- Owning and providing oversight of our People Strategic Plan, including developing annual action plans and providing delivery assurance.
- Provide a People Analytics Service enabling effective decision making on all people related issues.
- Acting as a trusted partner to our leadership team on development and implementation of our Strategic Workforce Plan, working closely with colleagues across HR and Finance to implement interventions to shift the size and make up of our workforce when required and in accordance with our plan. This includes examining DfE’s use of contingent labour and consultancy, considering where it would be better value for money and support agility to insource activity.
- Implementing organisational establishment guardrails and establish a Design Authority to enable effective decision-making to manage our workforce.
- Put in place plans to deliver the Department’s commitments to Places for Growth and implementing the next stage of our locations strategy.
QUALIFICATIONS
Chartered Fellow or fully qualified member (Level 7) of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent professional qualification or HR knowledge.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Chartered Fellow or fully qualified member (Level 7) of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) or equivalent professional qualification or HR knowledge
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)
- 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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