IMPORTANT DATES – PLEASE NOTE THESE DATES MAY CHANGE

Advert close: 25 August 2025
Longlist: 28 August 2025
Shortlist: 2 September 2025
Stage 1: 8 or 9 September 2025
Informal meet with the hiring manager: 12 September 2025
Stage 2, Staff Panel: 15 September 2025
Stage 2, Formal Interview and Presentation: 16 or 17 September 2025

Main Responsibilities

• Leadership of a newly re-formed directorate, setting clear direction and developing new ways of working.
• Leading, managing, and developing a high performing team.
• Provide inspirational leadership that promotes continuous improvement and equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Ensuring collaboration and integration of work across all directorates and teams instilling the ‘one IOPC’ ethos.
• Budget and resource management in line with a challenging efficiency and transformation programme.
• Leading, supporting and coordinating structural change across the organisation, ensuring fair and legal process together with successful outcomes.
• Deliver Organisational Development programmes and initiatives to support transformation and culture change.
• Lead and deliver the IOPC People Strategy.
• Maintain an active role on Management Board and other specified Boards, Groups and Committees.
• Speaking, presenting, and engaging at meetings and events with colleagues and groups across the organisation, at all levels.
• Building productive and professional relationships with trade union and staff council.
• Partnering effectively with Home Office, HM Treasury and Cabinet Office as required.
• Engaging and listening to colleagues across the organisation, seeking views and bringing people together foster to an environment for change and transformation.
• Pro-active and committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Demonstrate culture competence when interacting with all stakeholders.

Please refer to the Job Description for full role responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate

BE YOURSELF:

The IOPC is committed to promoting equality and valuing diversity in everything we do. Our vision is to be, and to be seen as, a leader in inclusive employment and services, demonstrating this ethos in everything that we do.

• As a silver standard Stonewall employer, we continue to commit to being an LGBTQ+ employer through the work of our Pride LGBTQ+ Staff Network, creating welcoming environments for lesbian, gay, bi, trans and queer people.
• We are pleased to share that we are a signatory of the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. The Charter is composed of five calls to action for leaders and organisations across all sectors.
• Being a Disability Confident employer, the IOPC is dedicating to removing the barriers for disabled people to thrive in the workplace.
• Our Staff Networks are constantly working to make the IOPC the leaders of inclusive employment, from our Allyship Programme to Welsh Language Standards and our Know the Line Policy, we are constantly seeking new ways to create an environment for all to develop and thrive.

In this pivotal leadership role, you will focus on modernising the IOPC by leading a strategic people focused capability whilst driving cultural change and enabling an ambitious transformation programme. The role will bring opportunity and challenge as you lead and advance our People and Change services in:

• Organisational Design & Development
• Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
• Learning & Talent Development
• Employee Relations & Business Partnering
• Health & Safety
• Wellbeing
• Recruitment & Resourcing
• Payroll, Benefits and Reward
• People Support Service

Main Responsibilities

• Leadership of a newly re-formed directorate, setting clear direction and developing new ways of working.
• Leading, managing, and developing a high performing team.
• Provide inspirational leadership that promotes continuous improvement and equality, diversity, and inclusion.
• Ensuring collaboration and integration of work across all directorates and teams instilling the ‘one IOPC’ ethos.
• Budget and resource management in line with a challenging efficiency and transformation programme.
• Leading, supporting and coordinating structural change across the organisation, ensuring fair and legal process together with successful outcomes.
• Deliver Organisational Development programmes and initiatives to support transformation and culture change.
• Lead and deliver the IOPC People Strategy.
• Maintain an active role on Management Board and other specified Boards, Groups and Committees.
• Speaking, presenting, and engaging at meetings and events with colleagues and groups across the organisation, at all levels.
• Building productive and professional relationships with trade union and staff council.
• Partnering effectively with Home Office, HM Treasury and Cabinet Office as required.
• Engaging and listening to colleagues across the organisation, seeking views and bringing people together foster to an environment for change and transformation.
• Pro-active and committed to equity, diversity and inclusion.
• Demonstrate culture competence when interacting with all stakeholders