Senior People Consultant - Strategic Change (HR consultant)
Location
Durham, County Durham | United Kingdom
Job description
This contract with our central government client is for a Senior People Consultant – Strategic Change (HR consultant) for 4 weeks. The role is located in Glasgow or Darlington and requires 2 days per week onsite.
In this role you will lead in the definition and delivery of people workstreams associated with their wide strategy change programmes. This role will champion, drive and embed strategic organisational design change by providing professional People consultancy expertise. This role holder is a trusted partner and will take a lead role on project delivery ensuring consistently high standards of service delivery.
This is an influential and highly visible role to define and lead all people plans and workstreams to support their wide strategic change programmes, ensuring the people aspect of the programmes meet the needs of the directorate and that they are delivered seamlessly to colleagues.
Accountabilities:
- Provide strategic challenge, overview and scrutiny of the people impacts of change programme, ensuring alignment with their people strategy.
- Play a lead role in delivery of the people aspects of their wide strategic programmes, making decisions on capability requirements, delivery within risk appetite, adhering and contributing to the required programme governance.
- Work with the business / Programme Leads and manager to make sure that all people policies and legislation are recognised through programme delivery.
- Link in with internal & external SMEs as required to ensure viable people plans are input to key strategic programmes of work.
- Manage effective relationships with external partners to ensure all people components of the programme plans are informed, relevant and realistic.
- Manage the budget associated with the people aspects of key change programmes (severance, training etc)
- Manage the day-to-day activities within risk appetite – owning, managing and mitigating the programme people risks
- Provide thought leadership on organisational developmental matters in relation to strategic programme delivery; required colleague up/re-skilling; restructuring and staff transfers within the their strategic people programmes.
- Play a lead role improving organisational effectiveness, embedding organisational values; facilitate organisational/cultural change.
- Working with the EDI Manager, agree a consolidated plan for implementing equality assessments across relevant projects and workstreams
- Support the relationship with trade unions and take responsibility for the effective execution of consultation requirements in relation to people and org design changes linked to the strategic people programmes
- As part of the People Directorate SMT, support the development and implementation of the People Strategy and People directorate business plan, ensuring alignment with both business and directorate objectives, whilst providing the appropriate balance of flexibility and consistency
- Identify opportunities to develop colleagues and grow the People talent pool
- Lead and contribute to People cross-functional working groups and projects as required
- Collaborate with key stakeholders such as legal counsel
- Proactively engage with People senior management colleagues to ensure appropriate governance and communication across the function and the wider organisation, as required
- There may be times when you will also be expected to carry out other reasonable management instructions or requests to suit the business needs.
Requirements
- Knowledge and experience of People Policies and Practices within the public sector
- Knowledge of the HR implications of large-scale organisational change and leading the people aspects of complex change programmes
- Strategic thinking and the ability to simplify complex and conflicting asks, identifying priorities, and provide advice and guidance at all levels on a wide range of complex matters
- Knowledge of relevant legal policies, regulations, and risk management
- Ability to communicate credibly and influence senior leaders and stakeholders in sensitive and challenging situations
- Well-organised, able to lead, manage and deliver on varying tasks and deadlines across multiple locations
- Demonstrable evidence of leading discussions with and providing advice to Executive leaders
- Robust analytical and organisational skills, demonstrating ability to provide a systematic review of policy/process/practice and develop logical implementation plans which secure the buy in of key stakeholders
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