Id2022-5184 - Head of People
2 months ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
- 255218**Salary**:
- £79,360 - £80,434**Job grade**:
- Grade 6- C3**Contract type**:
- Temporary
- Fixed Term
- Loan
- Assisted Transfer**Length of employment**:
- 12**Business area**:
- SSS - Finance and Corporate Services**Type of role**:
- Other**Working pattern**:
- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:
- 1Contents
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About the job
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Location
- Dundee, GlasgowAbout the job
**Job summary**:
Social Security Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.
Our benefits help people from all walks of life in Scotland. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that is representative of the clients we serve.
The Head of People is a member of the Executive Team and Executive Advisory Body and forms part of the Finance and Corporate Services Senior Leadership Team as well as chairing a number of organisational governance groups.
The post-holder also leads 5 teams, each led respectively by a C2 (Grade 6): Strategic Resourcing; Learning and Leadership; Corporate Transformation Programme; HR Business Partnering and Organisation Design & Development; and People Advice & Wellbeing.
The post holder also line manages the business support team for the wider Finance and Corporate Services.
The Head of People will also need to ensure that strategic workforce plans enable an agile workforce able to respond to increasing pressures on the social security system to provide a service to clients which treats them with dignity, fairness and respect.
To be successful in this role, you must be passionate about working in the public sector, delivering the best possible service to clients, but also able to draw that connection through to the employee experience and the capability of colleagues to deliver services in the right way - through skills and attitudes. You must be committed to developing HR professionalism and a strong advocate of evidence-based decision making and increased utilisation of data and analytical skills in HR. During the course of this role, you will oversee the launch of an updated People Plan which includes a new Learning and Leadership Strategy.
As this is a highly visible role, the post-holder must be comfortable role modelling leadership values across the organisation, operating at a strategic level providing high quality advice to ministers and to senior colleagues within core Scottish Government.
**Contract Type**
- Grade 6 within other government departments, or
- C2 or C3 within Scottish Government.
If successful, the type of contract offered will be determined by your current status:
- As an existing employee of the Scottish Government you will be hired on a temporary transfer
- As an existing Civil Servant from another government department you will be hired on a Loan basis from your existing department. If successful on loan from another Government department, you will return to your home department if the appointment ends.
As this post is being appointed through a Fair and Open process, if the decision is taken at any point to offer the successful applicant the post on a permanent basis, no further assessment would be required.
**Job description**:
The Head of People will lead and drive the transformation of the People function across Social Security Scotland. As a member of the Executive Team, the post holder will role-model the values of dignity, fairness and respect and have a leading role in the strategic direction of the organisation.
The successful post holder will provide professional expertise, inclusive leadership and deliver a high performing HR function as well as embedding excellent people leadership practices across Social Security Scotland.
**Main Duties**
- Leading the People function which provides a high quality, flexible and accessible human resources service to Social Security Scotland
- Responsible for setting the vision for Social Security Scotland’s People offer and the direction and overall leadership of 230 colleagues. Direct line management of 5 x Heads of Service C2s and 1 x C1 Head of Business management office for Finance and Corporate Services
- You will embed a culture of great leadership skills across the People team and across the organisation, role-modelling building capability and providing a value for money service
- Ensure that the People offer for Social Security Scotland is agile, proactive and takes note of developing industry trends and insights to challenge existing thinking and build a compelling, contemporary employment offer
- As a member of Social Security Scotland’s Executive Team and Executive Advisory Board you will contribute to the organisation’s overall strategic direction and be a visible and role-modelling leader across the whole agency
- Your main priority areas of focus will be to ensure that you deliver strategic people plans in line with the Social Security Scotland’s value frame
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