Responsibilities

Manage specific end-to-end change projects. Ensuring delegated changes, restructures and re-organisations are delivered within time, cost and risk parameters. Provide specialist guidance, advice, insight and support to managers in the planning and implementation of organisational change initiatives. This role, and the services delivered through the supporting team, will ensure change is appropriately planned, legal compliance with employment law and legislation is delivered, and areas of risk are quantified and understood. The role will also manage specific continuous improvement activities across HR – ensuring HR operations are focused on the needs of the user, and are conducted efficiently.

Knowledge

Knowledge of HR strategy, HR centres of expertise, HR services, and understanding of how these support delivery and business plan. Knowledge of employment law, TUPE regulations, and redundancy and redeployment legislation. Understanding of how these factors are managed and implemented. Knowledge and understanding current organisational design principles, and approach to design, demand and implementation. Knowledge and understanding of the strategic issues facing O/BCUs that will influence change initiatives. Knowledge of industrial relations policy with trade unions, staff associations and Police Federation.

Skills

Highly effective communication and negotiation skills with the ability to challenge senior leaders accountable for change strategies and plans. Proven ability to build strong working relationships with senior colleagues and peers across internal and external partners – building credibility in change capability and services. Excellent written and verbal communication skills producing and managing briefings, impact statements and plans for consideration at directorate or COG level. Strong consultancy skills including: analysing, diagnosing, influencing and facilitation skills to identify opportunities for change to improve efficiency, effectiveness and performance. Strong data acumen, confidence in using, analysing and manipulating data, interpreting information to draw key insights and actionable recommendations. Project management – constructing and delivering robust plans for change initiatives. Risk management and dependency management – identifying, quantifying and mitigating cross cutting risks that arise from change initiatives.

Experience

Track record of planning organisational change, delivering structural change and introducing new ways of working. Experience of providing advice and insight on implementing policy - clearly setting out risk and mitigations that support effective business decisions. Experience of scoping, planning and delivering projects within agreed budgets and timescales. Experience of working at pace and prioritising competing requirements to best achieve strategic goals. Experience owning and influencing relationships with senior leaders, acting as their trusted advisor. Experience of writing briefing materials, papers and external correspondence to influence senior level stakeholders.

Seniority level Mid-Senior level Employment type Full-time Job function Human Resources Industries Staffing and Recruiting Location London, England, United Kingdom #J-18808-Ljbffr