HR Director for Business Partnering
Are you a confident leader who is passionate about providing high quality user-focused partnering services?
If so, come join us as the new HR Director for Business Partnering.
In DWP, we care about making a real difference. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in the largest Civil Service Department that touches the lives of citizens the length and breadth of the UK. What we do matters. We serve over 22 million customers a year - we keep children out of poverty; we help people without jobs to find work so that they can support themselves and their families; we ensure 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 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.
This Director leads a team of 225 people to provide partnering and casework services in support of our 85,000 colleagues. This is a critical role and provides a challenge with both scale and scope. The challenges are unprecedented, and teams have been delivering at pace across our Group.You will be ambitious - and share our ambition – to build a reputation as an organisation where colleagues thrive.
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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 and as such, you will be required to sit on several cross-Government and Departmental decision making and assurance groups and be accountable for ensuring future design and delivery plans are fit for purpose.
You will lead the HR Business Partner and HR Advice Guidance Community (HR Casework) of over 225 colleagues within DWP and ensure they have the skills and capabilities to deliver timely, high-quality, user-focussed services across the Department.
The Director for HR Business Partnering has responsibility for driving, developing, and delivering of 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.
You and your teams will partner Business Groups to influence and deliver the following requirements in respect of:
- Workforce plans, resourcing and HR Transformation
- Pay, reward and employee relations
- Operational delivery and change management
- Localised learning and transformation
- Equality Diversity Inclusion and Wellbeing
- Localised leadership, talent and Senior Civil Service
Key Accountabilities:
- Ensure effective service and user design is embedded in the continuous improvement and professionalisation of HR Partnering and HR Advice and Guidance Services
- Set vision and direction for a highly effective team of HR Business Partners and HR Advisors providing, motivation, and leadership to ensure they reach their maximum potential and deliver timely, high-quality, user-focussed services
- Set direction and provide consultancy around organisational problem solving, providing an objective view and challenge to shape and steer business direction, performance and outcomes
- Build relationships and form meaningful alliances with stakeholders, both internal and external, using these networks to scan for emerging demands, trends and innovations
- Work with senior leaders to assess the impact of business change, identifying impacts such as capability, role design, culture, and communications and, embed the DWP Values creating an inclusive culture and a focus on colleagues achieving their full potential through leadership, engagement, People Performance, talent management, recruitment, and learning & development
- Ensure clear business adoption plans to adopt new processes, technology, and services
- Utilise business insight and robust people analytics to steer and direct organisational workforce strategies
- Deliver workforce plans across business areas that reflect agreed priorities and affordability across business areas and underpin future capability needs.
- Act as an intelligent customer into the wider People and Capability Function on behalf the business.