Head of People Operations and Organisation Development
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Salary - Salary Plan, 92,000.00 GBP Annual
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Salary - Salary Plan, 92,000.00 GBP Annual
Are you an experienced and strategic HR leader, ready to drive transformational change? Join the RSC as our Head of People Operations & Organisation Development and lead the evolution of our people strategy across a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation.
What You'll Do
- Lead transformation - Spearhead our development as a true strategic people partner for the organisation, maximising the use of data and insight from our new Workday HRIS to revolutionise how we operate and the value we add
- Drive performance and productivity – Support managers to build high levels of engagement, productivity and performance, underpinned by a strategic approach to total reward, recognition and performance management
- Build capability - Lead our focus on talent development to ensure we retain and attract the talented colleagues who will enable the future success of the RSC – building exciting career pathways and robust succession and workforce plans.
- Culture shift – Lead the work supporting managers to develop a culture which will enable the RSC’s significant global ambition, and continue our work to embed inclusion and diversity into everything we do
You'll manage the full P&C Operations and Development budget whilst leading a team of specialist colleagues across productivity, performance, people capability, and employee relations. Working closely with the Director of People and Culture and senior leadership, you'll fully own operational HR and have genuine influence over our organisational strategy and delivery.
What We're Looking For
A credible, pragmatic HR expert who thrives on complexity and can balance strategic vision with operational excellence and a mature approach to risk management. You'll need deep people expertise, strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to drive culture change at scale.
Ready to make your mark on an organisation that's transforming for the future?
This role is office-based (either Cambridge or London) and we embrace hybrid working. So you will be able to blend attending the office regularly to build stakeholder relationships and networks, meet with the team, and collaborate with colleagues across the organisation, with working from home or elsewhere.
What We Are Looking For
- CIPD Level 7 qualified or equivalent extensive experience of successfully operating at a senior/lead level
- Extensive HR operational knowledge within relevant legal frameworks, and the ability to devise innovative solutions to significant and complex HR problems.
- Experience of successfully operating as a people manager providing leadership and direction across a range of HR specialist services, aligned with the delivery of strategic people goals
- Significant experience of effective team building and development, enabling team members to flourish and reach their potential individually and collectively,
- Excellent negotiation skills and an ability to influence outcomes through empathy, reasoning, persuasion and tact.
- Strategic and logical thinker and decision-maker able to provide practical and creative solutions to the management of corporate and directorate issues.
- High level analytical abilities: able to assimilate and analyse information quickly, identifying issues, priorities and solutions and using effective models, techniques and resources to manage risks and take advantage of opportunities..
- Demonstrable continuous development and improvement of own professional practice.
- Proven experience of influencing strategic HR policy direction within a large / complex organisation, ideally with some experience of leading a people function with international colleagues.
- Evidence of embedding change and championing transformation within P&C specialist teams and also more broadly, managing change including staff engagement, capacity building, improving capability, performance and productivity across a workforce
- Experience of developing and implementing approaches to remuneration that support organisational goals as part of an attractive and engaging employee value proposition.
- Experience of the management and control of budgets
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate complex information both orally and in writing in a clear articulate and balanced way to a variety of audiences.
Visit our Work For Us website to learn more about us, our benefits, equal opportunities statement and inclusive culture pledge.
At the RSC, we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce and welcome applicants from a range of backgrounds to apply. We particularly encourage applications from disabled and ethnic minority candidates.
As a part of the Disability Confident Scheme, we endeavour, where possible, to offer an interview to candidates meeting the essential criteria of the role, who has a substantial physical/mental impairment which impacts their ability to carry out day-to-day tasks.
We are committed to making our recruitment processes accessible to all and as part of this, we are flexible in the ways we give and receive information. If you would like to apply using a different format, please contact the Recruitment Team at jobs@rsc.org or on +44 (0) 1223 432229 and we will do our best to put any reasonable adjustments in place.
If you have any questions, please contact us at jobs@rsc.org
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