Chief People Officer

2 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom The Open University UK Full time

**Unit**: People Services
**Salary**: Competitive Executive salary and benefits package
**Location**: Milton Keynes
**Please quote reference**: 20690
Permanent, Full Time post
**Closing Date**: 20 February, 2023 - 12:00

**Change your career, change lives**

The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

**The Unit**

People Services is the central HR function of The Open University, and forms part of the University’s Professional Services portfolio under the University Secretary. Its mission is to inspire the OU’s people to reach their potential so that our students can reach theirs. Over 200 staff in the function provide a professional service to all Academic and Professional Services units, delivering support to colleagues via our core HR operating system SAP Success Factors.

**The Role**

The Open University is recruiting for a values led, dedicated and inspiring Chief People Officer to join our executive team. You’ll be enabling our strategic mission by taking the lead in defining the future of work at the Open University and helping lead us through a period of profound change and development. As the Chief People Officer you’ll be accountable for providing vital leadership to the People Services function by delivering sustainable, long-term improvement whilst developing a strategic people agenda to meet this objective.

**Skills and experience**
- Do you possess previous Executive level of experience, effective in influencing Executive level stakeholders to meet strategic objectives?
- Are you experienced in successfully leading cultural and behavioural change in a complex environment? Can you articulate complex ideas clearly to a diverse audience?
- Are you innovative and change focussed with a proven track record of successfully embedding continuous improvement?
- Are you a strategic thinker who can confidentially challenge? Do you enjoy devising, developing and implementing new, innovative people agendas and organisational operating models?

If you can answer yes to these questions, then we would love to hear from you.

The fully summary of duties and person specification can be found within the Job Description.

**What you get in return**

We have a strong commitment to providing training and development in and beyond your current role. This includes thorough induction into the organisation and regular reviews of your training and development needs.

We also offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Staff Benefits include an attractive pension proposition and 33 days holiday per annum pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days.

**How to apply**

The Open University has partnered with Executive Search firm Perret Laver who are managing this recruitment.

Find out more about The Open University and our mission by watching this short video (you will be taken to YouTube by clicking this link).

**We offer a range of inclusive employment policies which include family and carer friendly flexible working arrangements and have many supportive staff networks and wellbeing services. We also endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, with commitment from all levels of the organisation in promoting gender equity.


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