Lancashire,
The SmartList
LOCATION: Blackpool, Lancashire
JOB TITLE: Director of Human Resources
SALARY & BENEFITS: £70,000 PA
WORKING HOURS: 37 hours per week + flexibility required
THE COMPANY: Are you an experienced HR professional looking for a new challenge in an organisation where you can make a real difference? Our Client is a large further and higher education college with campuses along 17 miles of the Fylde coast, from Fleetwood to Lytham. They are judged to be one of the UK's leading further and higher education colleges with over 20,000 students annually choose to study with them. A key focus for the College is providing higher, technical vocational education in response to the needs of industry.
THE ROLE: This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and organised HR professional to join a team based in Blackpool. You will provide the lead in specific issues such as organisational development, pay and reward, employment law, employee relations, as well as delivering best practice HR systems. It is important that you have experience of leading successful complex change within a large organisation.
Key Responsibilities:-
To create and deploy an effective long-term HR Strategy which compliments the College's Corporate Plan and establishes clear objectives and all necessary delivery mechanisms.
To provide outstanding leadership of the HR function, ensuring that targets are met and performance improved, both on an individual and a team basis.
To lead organisational development change programmes designed to ensure that services are developed and delivered in accordance with strategic aims and values of the College.
To deliver advice, support and information by translating expert knowledge into an appropriate format, helping colleagues understand the options available and, where appropriate, making recommendations.
To support and empower managers across the organisation to make sound HR related decisions.
To help foster and maintain an organisational climate and culture which reflects the College's strategic objectives and improves performance.
To contribute to the development of a proactive and vibrant staff development programme which will develop capability at both individual and team levels in line with the College's vision and Strategy and lead to organisational improvement and success.
To lead strategies to develop and nurture talent within the organisation by implementing a proactive approach to succession planning and developing and improving people management skills across the College.
To effectively contribute to the College's business planning processes to ensure the college resources are robust and we are in a position to anticipate and respond to changing educational landscape.
To maintain, develop and implement effective employee relationship frameworks, including working with recognised trade unions.
To deliver the College's equality objectives, and reporting responsibilities as per legal requirements, but also develop a framework that is proactive and sector leading.
To lead on the College's safeguarding agenda in respect of staffing matters.
THE CANDIDATE: The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, dynamic and forward thinking individual. You will be highly organised with the commitment to deliver a high quality service to customers. The ideal candidate will have an extensive experience in a complex HR environment. You will have excellent technical HR knowledge across the broad spectrum of the generalist HR remit.
Key skills and experience essential:-
You must hold a degree or equivalent professional qualification (CIPD)
Experience in HR within the Education sector is highly desirable
Extensive senior-level experience of HR management/organisational development and strategy in a large complex organisation including involvement in significant change management programmes.
Experience of developing a vision and strategy for HR/organisational development that is in line with corporate objectives.
The ability to develop and influence strategy in a complex, fast-changing environment, taking account of interconnections and balancing consequences
Does this sound like you?...
If the answer is yes please hit the apply now button. You will be forwarded an Online Application form to further strengthen your application and we will respond to you in due course.