Director of People Services in Croesyceiliog

TristoneNash have partnered exclusively with Bron Afon Community Housing to appoint a new Director of People Services.

Location: Cwmbran

Hybrid Working: Attending the office one or two days per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £84,213

Hours/days: 37 hours per week (09:00am to 17:00pm with flexibility)

Extras: Bron Afon operate a four-day working week - meaning you work 80% but are paid 100%, receiving one day off per week, agreed weekly with the Executive Director.

Overview: Bron Afon own and manage over 8,000 homes, supporting 20,000 people. This is a key senior leadership role within the people directorate, giving someone the opportunity to shape Bron Afon's people agenda, lead cultural change and help drive organisational improvement. Bron Afon are a community-owned social housing organisation with a clear social purpose and a strong commitment to helping communities thrive.

Reporting to the Executive Director, you'll lead HR, learning and development, internal communications and engagement, wellbeing, and EDI. They require a credible senior people leader with strong HR/OD experience, excellent judgement and the ability to lead through change in a complex environment. You would have 4 direct reports, all of whom are at Business Partner level and you would be responsible for a department of 8 staff overall. The financial responsibility includes a revenue budget of circa £1m.

Your duties in this role would include:

• Leading the strategic/operational delivery of the People Services portfolio, including HR, L&D, Internal Communications & Engagement, Wellbeing, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI).
• Ensuring these services align with Bron Afon's values, and support cultural transformation.
• Playing a key role in driving agile ways of working and delivering a corporate strategy.
• Positioning Bron Afon to attract, recruit, develop and retain talented people.
• Leading the development and delivery of People, L&D, EDI and Internal Communications strategies, ensuring a proactive, modern and technologically enabled approach to people management.
• Ensuring the alignment of resources, systems and people to deliver high-quality, professional support to the business.
• Contributing to the overall leadership, direction and success of Bron Afon, helping create an inclusive, engaged and high-performing organisation.
• Leading on the development of Total Reward and recognition systems that balance market and internal equity and are aligned with Bron Afon's cultural direction of travel.
• Developing HR analytics to provide ongoing insight into employee behaviour and other characteristics to inform decision making; ensuring that all people-related data is managed professionally.

Essential requirements for this role:

• Experience at Director level within HR/People previously, or experience at 'Head of' level coupled with 5+ years within the social housing sector.
• CIPD Level 7 qualification.

Benefits Package:

• Highly competitive salary + 4-day working week.
• A 32 days annual leave entitlement + 3 additional days around Christmas/New Years.
• Defined Contribution Social Housing Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 12%.
• Bupa Cash back plan, investment learning and development, funding of professional memberships, cycle scheme, GP helpline, Wider Wallet discount voucher scheme and more.