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Person Specification – GROUP DIRECTOR OF PEOPLE & CULTURE

Knowledge

Essential

  • A practising Christian with leadership experience from Church in membership of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland.
  • Degree level education or equivalent in terms of either a relevant professional/specialist HR qualification.
  • Knowledge of strategic management and business planning.
  • High degree of expertise in Employment and Contract Law.
  • Knowledge of effective people management including organisational development, including performance management.
  • Chartered or Fellowship Member of CIPD or equivalent body.

Desirable

  • Educated to degree level with a recognised qualification in Theology and/or Leadership.
  • Knowledge of social enterprise and other not-for-profit business models.

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of leading an HR or other internal service department or holding a senior position in a major department with over 250 members of staff over dispersed sites.
  • Experience of working with committees, Boards and stakeholder groups.
  • Strategic management experience, including business planning, annual reporting and monitoring organisational performance.
  • Comprehensive experience of leading organisation change, TUPE, redundancy and redeployment.

Desirable

  • Experience of working in the charity sector, on either a paid or voluntary basis, such as in the capacity of Trustee.
  • Experience of working in a highly regulated environment.

Abilities and Skills

Essential

  • Ability to develop long term people, organisational development and business strategy.
  • Strategic thinker, with proven ability to step back from the day to day running of a department.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with effective collaborative/consultative approach to working with colleagues at all levels.
  • Capable networker and relationship manager, both internally and externally.
  • Strong presenter, persuader and influencer with the ability to communicate ideas and proposals, both verbally and in writing in a compelling manner to colleagues, Trustees and external stakeholders.
  • Competent IT skills as a user of systems required for this role.

Desirable

  • Experience of overseeing HRiS system implementation.

Behaviours

Essential

  • Confident in working with Chief Executive and the Board, as well as senior external figures.
  • Assertive yet diplomatic, with an understanding of and commitment to servant leadership concept.
  • Highly organised and pragmatic.
  • Able and willing to travel across the Group sites and services on a regular basis.
  • Able and willing to work occasional weekends and evenings.