People Consultant Lead

2 months ago

Chelmsford, Essex, United Kingdom Essex County Council Full time
About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and skilled People Consultant Lead to join our team at Essex County Council. As a key member of our HR function, you will play a critical role in enabling our organisational strategy by ensuring that people policy, practices and interventions are embedded consistently across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design, implement, evaluate and evolve employment standards, people policies, practices and interventions to ensure they are future-focused, relevant, innovative, cost-effective and inclusive.
  • Quality assure our employment standards, policies and practices, assessing how they work in practice to ensure that they are fit for purpose and forward-focused.
  • Champion thought leadership through a blend of external market awareness and internal insights, blending external industry trends and internal knowledge to drive innovation and influence decision-making.
  • Manage highly complex and difficult conversations at a senior level, presenting, explaining, motivating, engaging, influencing, persuading and challenging up to corporate and political leadership level.
  • Lead, coach, develop and manage your team to ensure work is completed to the highest standard through professional use of the consultancy model.
  • Provide expertise and appropriate professional advice to resolve people issues and inform people strategy, working collaboratively across the People and Organisational Development function and wider leadership and management population.
  • Drive delivery through effective leadership and by efficiently allocating and commissioning resources from relevant teams, coordinating projects through cross-functional teams.
  • Work collaboratively with People Business Partners and People Leads colleagues in the advancement of the People & Organisation Development service, using insight and intelligence to deliver innovative solutions.
Requirements
  • Educated to degree level in a relevant professional field such as Human Resources, employment law, business management, or equivalent by experience.
  • Professional membership of CIPD at Chartered Level or working towards this.
  • Evidence of continuing professional development with an expert understanding of employment law, a deep understanding of core HR and a broad understanding of all other HR specialisms with the ability to apply these at a tactical level.
  • Demonstrable experience of managing complex cultural, systems, process and behavioural change through professional application and proactive development of the consultancy model.
  • Extensive experience of working as a consultant in a large, complex, matrix environment with demonstrable evidence of developing, implementing and evaluating people policies, practices interventions aligned to organisational goals.
  • Evidence of using external insight, internal data and professional judgement to create, implement and assess the impact of human resources strategy aligned to organisational strategy and business plans to deliver tangible outcomes.
  • Demonstrable knowledge of the critical factors in planning change and practical experience of applying project and programme management approaches to deliver high quality results on time and to budget.
  • Strong communication and report writing skills with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
  • Evidence of providing strong, adaptable leadership demonstrating resilience and tenacity in pursuing goals, delivering successful outcomes through others and role modelling ethical behaviours and professional integrity.

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