Manchester

Youll be joining a friendly senior leadership team in the People and Workplace Directorate. Together we are responsible for the HR, security and property functions for DCMS, often working with our family of 42 public bodies too. We also house the people-centred change management team. Our mission is creating an inspiring, productive and safe workplace where everybody belongs and thrives. 

Our team is regionally dispersed with around 40% of members located out of London and we are growing in Manchester. We are also proud of our high people engagement score - 79%. We run a lot of activities during the year to build our team culture.

The HR function follows the typical operating model of strategy, expert services, people development, business partnering, recruitment and operations. We collaborate closely with teams across the department to deliver our work.

If successful, in this new role you will co-lead the HR function and profession with the Director, Sarah. You will be responsible for an important change: merging two HR teams into one, bringing them together and empowering people to find the synergies and productivity that will result from closer collaboration and prioritisation.

You will lead projects and services to achieve the goals in our People Plan. Priorities this year include: building on our strong staff engagement, investing in line manager capability; being the most diverse and inclusive department, with a strategy to support those from underrepresented groups and backgrounds; relocating more roles to our Manchester hub, via outreach and recruitment; developing our strategic workforce planning 2030 to build departmental capability and productivity; and enabling work towards a shared HR system with other government departments.

This new role is based in Manchester and you will want to travel from time to time to develop relationships with team members, but much of our work can be done via hybrid working, once relationships are established.

• Leadership A track record of motivating and engaging a diverse team based in different locations, empowering talented people in a productive and inclusive culture, so that they perform at their best.
• Delivering at Pace Experience of translating strategy into objectives and plans, and supporting your team to deliver productively. You will enjoy variety, be able to respond positively to the unexpected and foster resilience in others and support their wellbeing by managing workloads well.
• Changing and Improving Eager to use technology and data to to change and improve processes, systems and ways of working. You will have experience of sponsoring projects and understand risk management.
• Managing a quality service You will be familiar with customer-centric design and delivery, enjoy using quantitative and qualitative insight to ensure the HR service you are delivering is relevant and is of the agreed quality standard.  
• Working together A networker, able to collaborate and communicate with peers, stakeholders, professions and customers across the directorates of the department, in our family of public bodies and with other departments to influence thinking, understand others and achieve shared goals.

Desirable skills: 

• This role requires a HR professional qualification: FCIPD. Ideally, the successful candidate will already have this or be willing to gain it through a CIPD assessment of their work experience to date. You will be supported to achieve this.
• In this role you will be able to round out your professional knowledge, whichever sector or background you come from. A commitment to learning is desirable.
• We take a people-centred approach to change, following the PROSCI methodology. Full training will be provided.

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace
• Leadership
• Managing a Quality Service
• Working Together

Alongside your salary of £75,000, Department for Culture, Media and Sport contributes £20,250 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

DCMS values its staff and offers a wide range of benefits to everyone who works here. Were committed to developing talent, and supporting colleagues to have great careers in our department. To support with that, some of the benefits we offer include:

• Flexible working arrangements and hybrid working - DCMS staff work on a flexible basis with time spent in offices, and time spent working from home

• 26.5 days annual leave on entry, increasing to 31.5 days after 5 years service

• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

• Access to the Edenred employee benefits system which offers discounts to popular retailers and access to various useful resources such as financial and savings advice

• 3 days of paid volunteering leave

• Up to 9 months maternity leave on full pay + generous paternity and adoption leave

• Staff reward and recognition bonuses that operate throughout the year

• Occupational sick pay

• Access to the Employee Assistance Programme which offers staff 24/7 confidential support and resources such as counselling, debt guidance and management advice

• Active and engaged staff networks to join including the LGBT+, Ethnic Diversity, Mental Health and Wellbeing and Gender Equality Networks

• Exceptional learning and development opportunities that you can explore alongside your day to day work

• Season ticket loan, cycle to work scheme and much more!

Terms and conditions at SCS grades will vary. Those applying for SCS roles should refer to the candidate information pack for more information on terms and conditions.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

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Job contact :

• Name : SCS Recruitment
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