Strategic Workforce Partner

3 weeks ago

Oldham, United Kingdom Oldham Council Full time

**Oldham Council**

***

Resources Directorate

Human Resources and Organisational Development

**Ref**:SM3/OL-90868

**Contract**: Permanent

**Salary**:£52,555 - £55,678 per annum (SM3)

**Hours**:36.66 per week

**Based**: Spindles, Oldham Council Offices, Spindles Shopping Centre, George Street, Oldham, OL1 1HD

**Closing Date**: Monday 8th April 2024

**Shortlisting & Interview Dates**: TBC.

Job Description & Person Specification.pdf

**Role Overview**:
You will be joining us at an exciting time. We are on an incredible journey of change to support the Council’s 2030 plans and beyond. You will be part of the Organisational Development Team and play a significant part in the delivery of our new People Strategy across the wider organisation and within the assigned Directorate area, which supports a positive employee lifecycle experience.

Working proactively with senior leaders in the relevant Directorate and across our senior leadership team, you will lead on driving forward strategic priorities, including diagnosing and addressing workforce challenges.

Responsibility for helping Directorate service areas succeed in ways that lay the foundations for the future workforce, taking steps to improve performance, engagement and workforce planning.

**Key Responsibilities**
- To establish, grow and promote effective strategic partnerships across the directorate portfolio and with external partners to enable the delivery of strategic interventions arising from the People Strategy, which support the employee lifecycle and strengthen employee experience.
- Proactively drive conversations and positively challenge services in relation to designing effective and efficient service delivery models, ensuring that they support the delivery of good quality services and a good resident experience.
- Responsible for researching opportunities, horizon scanning, benchmarking and championing best practice in order to drive conversations in relation to effective strategies and organisational design.
- Lead and / or contribute to the development and implementation of workforce policies and procedures to ensure these facilitate the vision within the people strategy for delivering a culture of good performance, leading to better outcomes for people and places across the Borough and beyond
- Analyse, report and present employee-based information and drive benchmarking activity in relation to the development of effective strategies and solutions.
- Actively promote and champion the equalities, diversity and inclusion agenda both in the workplace and in service delivery.
- Engrain wellbeing within directorate people strategies. This will involve data gathering, engaging with services, measuring results, listening to feedback and improving policies and practices.

**Key Requirements**:
To succeed in this role, you will need as a minimum:

- Evidence of continued professional, managerial and personal development, in relation to the role
- Level 7 CIPD qualified (or equivalent experience)

**About You**:
You will be an experienced practitioner who ideally has breathe of experience and knowledge across both organisational development and human resources. You will have experience of working at a strategic level and who can quickly establish themselves with professional expertise in the organisation working with teams and leaders, at all levels including senior leaders.

You will be comfortable with dealing with ambiguity, drawing on your skills and knowledge to navigate and support the organisation with complex challenges and be integral in the assessment and implementation of appropriate, innovative and effective solutions.

You will be friendly, approachable, a team player and be able to use your communication skills to effectively influence and engage our workforce in a hearts and mind approach.

Oldham Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

**Diversity and Inclusion**:
At Oldham Council, we are committed to creating a fair and inclusive workplace that is as diverse as the communities we serve. We aim to develop a culture of respect, where differences are recognised regardless of background. We aim to be an employer of choice by engaging in fair and open recruitment processes and Applications are encouraged from all communities across the borough to create a workforce that represents the diversity of our population.

**About Us**:
Oldham is committed to developing a Co-operative future; one where citizens, partners and staff work together to improve the borough. Anyone joining the council is coming into an ambitious organisation with big plans. We are working hard to build a brighter future for our borough and we need people from a wide range of backgrounds to continue delivering the best for our communities.

The Council has a clear set of Values and Behaviours, our Values outline how we do bus

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