Strategic Business Partner

As one of 3 HR Business Partners within our Strategic Partnering team, you will collaborate with HR teams and departmental services to problem solve emerging and current people management issues and risks.

Main duties of the job

• Develop people plans to ensure that the council’s workforce strategy is understood and incorporated at a local level, that staff feedback is addressed and actioned and that workforce priorities are identified, planned and delivered ensuring consistency of approach and excellent delivery.
• Confidently use qualitative and quantitative data, business insights and intelligence to underpin the development of evidence-based workforce plans and solve problems.
• Analyse the current workforce to determine future workforce needs, identifying the gap between the present and the future, and implementing solutions so that directorates can accomplish short and long-term objectives.

Working for our organisation

Islington HR is reshaping its services. We’re realigning our service provision to put digital, learning and innovation at the heart of what we do. We’ve created 3 new functions – HR Customer Delivery, Organisational Development and Strategic HR Partnering. Our vision is to be a trusted professional partner, empowering our managers and people to thrive and deliver better services for Islington. By joining the team, you’ll play a vital role in enabling this, putting fairness and equality at the heart of everything we do – in our communities and our workplace.

In return for your knowledge and skills, we offer a vast range of staff benefits here at Islington such as:

• up to 31 days leave per year with more for long service!
• A range of flexible working arrangements
• Learning and development opportunities to maximise your potential
• Local discounts from restaurants, shops, health and beauty therapists, and more!
• A mix of office and hybrid working
• Staff support networks

If you think this could be the next exciting step in your career, then please apply now!

Closing date: Sunday 22nd October at 23:59

Interviews: To be confirmed

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver a Council-wide HR consultancy service to senior managers, providing strategic business focused advice on all aspects of change management, TUPE transfers, workforce planning and organisational design, meeting current and future business objectives within the context of the overall Council workforce strategy.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with managers, HR and OD partners to ensure HR collectively delivers positive outcomes from organisational change, workforce planning and organisational design based around best practice, council procedures and the legislative framework.
• Develop effective and constructive relationships with Trade Unions and other stakeholders to facilitate productive and meaningful consultation via the Council’s employee relations framework throughout the organisational change programme.
• Establish mechanisms for reviewing the success of the change management, workforce planning and organisational design programmes post implementation and capture lessons learnt to measure the success of the change management project and review continuous improvement on service delivery.
• Working as a strategic HR partner, support directorate management teams to focus on key business priorities and diagnose workforce-related challenges, designing and implementing high quality solutions or commissioning services within HR as appropriate.
• Provide professional expertise to ensure that all HR solutions provided to the business by HR teams are seamlessly delivered and comply with policy, legislation and best practice; intervening to resolve issues where appropriate.
• Provide high quality professional HR advice and guidance to senior managers on complex staffing issues relating to both individuals and groups of staff.
• Commission support from the Employee Relations team where appropriate.
• Coach business leaders to fulfil their people management responsibilities effectively around the entire employee lifecycle, effectively utilising policies and tools.

Person specification

Qualifications

• CIPD qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

• Working as a senior HR professional in a large complex organisation, understanding the needs of the business and providing strategic business led advice.
• Design strategies to ensure HR provides clear business focused outcomes aligned over the long term with delivering the Council’s overall workforce plan.
• Challenging, coaching and advising managers on all aspects of our workforce strategy and plans, addressing business challenges, to deliver business objectives.
• Experience of determining future workforce needs, identifying the gap between the present and the future, and implementing solutions so accomplish short and long-term objectives.
• Experience of advising managers on organisational design principles, aligning structures with objectives and improving efficiency and effectiveness.

Skills

• Ability to understand, assimilate, interpret, present and communicate complex information.
• Ability to create and build effective relationships with a range of senior managers, stakeholders and professional staff.
• Maintain an up to date knowledge of HR best practice, trends and employment legislation.
• Effective written and oral communication skills including report writing and presentation skills with proven ability to work with and gain the confidence of and influence diverse audiences at all levels.

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