The role
This is a unique opportunity to showcase your valuable skills and experience in a newly created Human Resources (HR) and Organisational Transformation (OT) Service. As the Strategic Lead HR Business Partnering, you will lead the provision of HR Business Partnering services across the organisation. You will oversee the development of departmental people plans to ensure that workforce priorities are identified, planned and delivered ensuring consistency of approach and high levels of service delivery.
A commitment to delivering first-class services will be at the heart of your values to make sure our workforce has a positive experience working in the council. You will have a customer-driven approach with a commitment to understanding the employee lifecycle based on engagement with our workforce and stakeholders to deliver a refreshed employee value proposition embedded throughout the employee journey.
To succeed in this role, you will bring a fresh contemporary leadership style/approach to lead and develop the team and colleagues within the HR & OT community. You will be a skilled influencer who has worked with senior managers, members providing strategic business-led advice that supports all aspects of change management, business partnering, and employee relations advice and consultancy within the context of the business. A sustainable track record of developing, designing, and delivering workforce strategies and related people management strategies within large public sector organisations is essential.
You will also have extensive and practical experience of leading large change projects in at least two HR-related disciplines; OD, Business Partnering, Resourcing, Employee Relations
For an informal and confidential discussion about this position, please contact us via the attached welcome letter.
Application Process
Apply online by 6 September 2021 at 11:59 pm with your CV and supporting statement of no more than 2 sides of A4 (completed via the online application form).
Additional salary details
In addition to a competitive salary, this role attracts a JNC benefit package of £2724 PA / Pro rata dependent on start date.
Recruitment timetable
Recruitment Timetable
Application deadline: 11:59 pm 6 September 2021
Stakeholder session and final panel interview: Friday 10 September 2021 via video link
*Saville & Holdsworth (SHL) Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) for shortlisted candidates: Thursday 8 September 2021
We are an organisation that is passionate about our people and understands that richness of diversity is a requirement to provide the best possible services to our communities. This is demonstrated through our council-wide ambitious commitment to tackle racial inequality in our communities and workforce through our Southwark Stands Together initiative. We particularly welcome applications from members of the black, Asian and ethnic minority communities to increase representation at the senior management level in the council.
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