Director of People and Culture

Rochdale Boroughwide Housing – Rochdale, Borough of Rochdale

Job Overview: As Director of People, you will champion a high quality and proactive People Service, including organisational development and payroll. You will have full leadership responsibility for leading a professional people team that will bring positive impact and deliver excellent levels of satisfaction, improved efficiencies, colleague engagement, wellbeing, diversity, inclusion and belonging, all of which are fundamental to delivering the corporate strategy of RBH.

Key areas of work:

• Lead and manage a high performing People Team that drives improvements in people processes and systems to positively influence the organisation.
• Develop and implement an effective People strategy and framework taking into account business, cultural and customer needs.
• Through strategic workforce planning and OD strategy attract, retain and develop colleagues to meet current and future requirements.
• Champion the wellbeing, diversity inclusion and belonging, reward, recognition and retention strategies.

Implement an approach that engages colleagues whilst embedding these at the heart of the culture.

• Strategic development, planning and implementation of HR policies and procedures, tools and frameworks to achieve efficient ways of working and improved outcomes across all areas.
• Assess and report on people analytics to provide insights and business appropriate recommendations to directors, board and representative groups.
• Strong proven track record of leading a people and organisational development function, preferably in a regulated environment.
• Experience of delivering a transformational cultural change programme.
• Able to positively communicate in a variety of formats to a diverse audience, coaching and influencing colleagues, customers, external partners and stakeholders in relation to people initiatives.
• Excellent knowledge of employment legislation and governance.
• Ability to work collaboratively with Trade Unions and other consultative groups.
• Awareness and empathy for the social issues that impact RBH customers.
• Proven leadership skills providing an inclusive, diverse performance culture.
• Acts with integrity, respect and flexibility.
• Strives for excellence through clear prioritisation, effective delegation and continuous delivery to achieve organisational goals.