HR Change Lead

We are recruiting for a HR Change Lead – an experienced HR professional who can deliver people-based change projects, whilst supporting business leaders to manage risk and employment issues. To join us, you will need to be an experienced HR Practitioner with a successful record of managing people-based change. It is vital that you understand current employment legislation, and can make informed, risk-based decisions. Knowledge and experience of the policing environment would be useful, but not essential.

More important are your delivery and stakeholder management skills – which you will use to ensure change is delivered within agreed performance targets, whilst providing business leaders with professional advice and insight to support effective decision making. You will share our values of integrity; courage; accountability; respect and empathy, bringing them to life in how you work and using our principles to shape your decisions. You will also manage continuous improvement activities across HR - ensuring our service offer is both efficient and effective.

Why join us? Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself and working for an organisation that makes a difference every day you will receive a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension. You will also benefit from excellent career and professional development.

On a day-to-day basis you will have four primary areas of responsibility:

• Manage the delivery and implementation of change strategies. Supporting business leaders to interpret policy, and providing them with timely and definitive guidance.
• Manage people-based change projects, re-structures and re-organisations to agreed performance targets. Delivering business objectives, maintaining legal compliance, managing industrial relations and managing risk appropriately. Focusing on the end-to-end process and ensuring displacement, and where required redundancy, is managed effectively and in line legislation.
• Manage the policy, processes and products used to deliver people-based change. Ensuring they fit for purpose, maintained and support both business and individuals.
• Manage continuous improvement projects within the HR function – ensuring HR operations are effective, efficient and focused on the needs of the frontline user.

You will be responsible for managing and delivering key aspects of our major transformation projects – building new organisational units, transforming existing units, whilst managing re-deployment efficiently and with empathy. To do this you will manage multi-person, multi-disciplinary change teams – sized to meet the demands of the project – including resources from within the Change team, and wider HR. Your work will be highly visible to senior operational leaders, directors, and management board, and be a critical enabler to delivering our plan.

• Track record of successfully delivering people-based change, re-structures, and re-organisations.
• Proven ability to build strong working relationships with senior colleagues and peers – building credibility in change capability and services.
• Knowledge of employment law, TUPE regulations, and redundancy and re-deployment legislation. Demonstrating how these are managed to support both the business and impacted individuals.
• Knowledge and experience of industrial relations policy and stakeholder management (e.g. trade unions, staff associations or Police Federation).
• Knowledge and experience of HR processes, services and operations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.