Senior Manager - HR Strategic Projects

Job summary

Job purpose

The Senior Manager – Strategic Projects role supports the design and delivery of strategic, organisation-wide people and culture initiatives that support the People and Culture strategy and strengthen organisational performance.

Working with the HR Senior Leadership Team and senior leaders across the Agency, the role translates strategic priorities into impactful, inclusive and evidence-based programmes, ensuring delivery of measurable outcomes that support workforce ambitions.

The role manages a small team and works collaboratively across cross-functional and matrix environments, managing interdependencies, risks, governance, resources and delivery plans to ensure activity is effectively prioritised and aligned with wider organisational objectives.

Job description

Key accountabilities and responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and end-to-end delivery of organisation-wide HR, people development and culture programmes, ensuring alignment with organisational strategy and priorities.
• Lead the implementation and embedding of leadership standards, behaviours and capability frameworks across the employee lifecycle, working with senior leaders to secure visible sponsorship and role-modelling.
• Shape and deliver initiatives that strengthen careers, talent, succession planning, workforce planning and organisational capability, using workforce insight to identify priorities and measure impact.
• Lead employee listening and engagement activity, including employee and pulse surveys, translating insight into evidence-based priorities, actions and continuous improvement.
• Lead and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within employment practices, including workforce diversity insight, pay gap reporting and action planning, ensuring inclusive outcomes are integral to programme design and delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, HR colleagues, trade unions and other internal and external stakeholders, using effective consultation, challenge and influencing to gain commitment and resolve competing priorities.
• Lead and develop project teams and matrix resources, providing clear direction, coaching and support while fostering collaboration, accountability and high performance.
• Prepare and present clear, evidence-based reports, recommendations and updates for senior leadership and governance forums, using qualitative and quantitative insight to support decision-making.
• Ensure new approaches are effectively communicated, implemented, evaluated and embedded into business-as-usual activity, identifying opportunities to improve processes, colleague experience and organisational effectiveness.

Person specification

Key skills, knowledge and experience

• CIPD membership and a relevant degree, professional qualification or equivalent demonstrable experience.
• Substantial experience of leading and delivering complex, organisation-wide HR, organisational development, talent or people transformation programmes through the full project lifecycle, from concept to sustainable business-as-usual delivery.
• Broad and current HR knowledge across the employee lifecycle, with strong expertise in one or more of the following: leadership and capability, talent and succession, workforce planning, employee engagement, organisational development or EDI.
• Strong project and programme management capability, including business case development, governance, planning, budget and resource management, risk and issue management, benefits realisation, evaluation and reporting against outcomes and KPIs.
• Proven ability to translate strategy, evidence and workforce insight into practical, inclusive solutions with clear measures of organisational and colleague impact.
• Credible and influential stakeholder management skills, with experience of advising and constructively challenging senior leaders, navigating ambiguity and competing priorities, and building consensus across organisational boundaries.
• Experience of leading, coaching and developing teams, including delivery through cross-functional and matrix arrangements.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills, including the ability to interpret complex information and present clear recommendations, reports and business cases to senior and Board-level audiences.
• A sound understanding of HR-related legal, policy, employee relations and EDI considerations, including experience of effective consultation and engagement with colleagues, trade unions and other stakeholders.
• Demonstrable commitment to inclusive leadership, continuous improvement and creating a positive, high-performing culture.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Further information

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Name: Recruitment Team

Email: recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : RecruitmentInfo@homesengland.gov.uk
• Email : RecruitmentInfo@homesengland.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Recruitmentinfo@homesengland.gov.uk