Overview

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership. Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers. We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

Role Overview

We are looking for a People Programme and Projects Lead to join our dedicated People Services department. The People Services Programme & Project Lead supports the People Services Leadership Team to deliver A2Dominion’s People Strategy. The role combines strong HR generalist expertise with project management skills to ensure the effective delivery of HR initiatives across the employee lifecycle.

Location: Ealing office base with hybrid working. Contract: Permanent, 35 hours per week.

Key responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate the People Services programme of work, setting priorities, sequencing projects, and identifying interdependencies
• Monitor programme performance, ensuring progress through governance and alignment with the People Strategy
• Facilitate benefits realisation and ensure continuous improvement through lessons learned

Project Management

• Lead, manage, and deliver people related projects, including cyclical initiatives, applying appropriate methodologies and frameworks
• Define project scope, objectives, and deliverables in partnership with project sponsors
• Ensure HR projects are legally compliant with UK employment law and aligned with best HR practice
• Manage project risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring effective mitigation strategies are in place
• Develop robust business cases with Project Sponsor(s), including requirements, costs, benefits, risks, and issues
• Work within governance and reporting frameworks, ensuring timely and accurate updates for sponsors and stakeholders. Including but not limited to PS Delivery Group meetings used to actively update key stakeholders on progress, challenges and to gain decisions & direction

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Build strong relationships across People Services, the wider organisation, and external partners
• Act as the primary point of contact for people project stakeholders, providing regular updates and facilitating decision-making
• Coordinate and deliver communications plans in line with departmental and corporate standards
• Participate in peer reviews and share best practice across the People Services function
• Promote innovation and future-focused approaches to support the delivery of strategic people outcomes

More about you

• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent in Math’s and English (Grades A*- C)
• Proven HR generalist experience across the employee lifecycle (e.g. employee relations, resourcing, reward, learning & development, policy development)
• Proven experience of delivering HR-specific projects in corporate environments
• Knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
• Knowledge of project methodologies, tools, and frameworks
• Experience supporting and influencing senior managers
• Proficiency in data management, analysis, HRIS systems, and Microsoft Office

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Investment in your learning and development

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

Meetings and statements

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting the role requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at resourcing@a2dominion.co.uk.

Seniority level

Not Applicable

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Human Resources

Industries

Non-profit Organizations and Real Estate