WWF
Location
Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
Head of People Planning and Partnership
This is a UK based contract and as such, you are required to have the Right to Work in the UK. Evidence of your Right to Work will be checked prior to interview.
This is a rare opportunity for an HR professional with experience of providing both tactical and strategic HR and business support to play a key role in helping save our planet. Right now, our world is under threat like never before. But there is hope. You can help deliver a world where people and nature can thrive by using your experience of leading a HR Business Partnering team to provide a professional and pro–active service that fully supports the strategic and operational priorities of WWF UK.
As Head of People Partnering and Planning for the world s largest independent conservation organisation, you will manage and develop our existing HR Business Partnering & Advisory team as well as our new Strategic People Planning function. We will look to you to oversee the team working to enable cultural and process change and build engagement. This will involve inspiring your team to engage with multiple stakeholders across the organisation to set, enable and coach on people related working practices, employment relations and processes. We will look to you to share your expertise and learning to ensure an integrated approach that delivers a great employee experience which is aligned to our desired culture and core values. You will develop and embed a new integrated approach to strategic people planning, ensuring effective resourcing, structural optimisation and financial sustainability come together so that the human resource of the organisation maximises impact too. As a senior member of our management team, you will also provide advice and ensure proactive, best practice thinking. Important will be the ability to ensure that our working environment reflects our organisational values.
CIPD qualified or equivalent, you must have skills in both tactical and strategic HR and business support for a complex organisation. This will have given you up–to–date knowledge of employment legislation, best practice approaches as well talent acquisition and effective resourcing. Comfortable developing and implementing strategic people planning, you will be used to engaging with staff consultative bodies. You will possess a good working knowledge of HR policies and procedures and their application in the workplace too. You will also have a good working knowledge of DE&I approaches and general people related compliance.
In addition to your technical expertise, you will also have excellent communication, project management and interpersonal skills. You will be effective at coaching teams and able to translate ambitious strategic objectives into realistic work packages that people can deliver too.
If you are excited by the opportunity to play a vital role in bringing our world back to life, we would love to hear from you. Please click on the link and apply via our website by submitting a copy of your up–to–date CV and Supporting Statement to highlight what makes you a good fit for us.
Application closing date: 04/03/2024
Every role at WWF is open to applications from all sections of society. We believe in the potential of everyone regardless of; sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, different physical
ability, family structure, socio–economics, age, nationality or citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other aspect that makes you, well you. Here at WWF, we are committed to conscious inclusion that helps cultivate an ethos of belonging, connection and shared purpose. We believe that the more diverse we are the better we become; this brings us together and empowers us to develop, engage and inspire; and critically to help build a future where people can live in harmony with nature.
Our policies and benefits reflect the importance of people being able to have a good work–life balance and being able to bring their full self to work.
Our world needs you like never before. We are the first generation to know we are destroying the world and we could be the last that can do anything about it. We are looking for people who are passionate about making it politically, socially and economically unacceptable to destroy our planet s natural resources. We need you to join us in the fight for our world.
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£62k per annum
