Human Resources Lead

Lincoln Cornhill Executive • Contract • London Area, GB • £70k / year • 1w ago

Lincoln Cornhill are delighted to be partnering with a fantastic London-based charity seeking to appoint a HR Lead on an initial six-month fixed-term contract.

This full-time London-based role offers hybrid working, with circa three days from home per week, and a salary of c£70,000 per annum.

The HR Lead will provide strategic direction and leadership for the organisation’s Human Resources function, ensuring it is structured to enhance strategy execution, drive organisational development, and foster cultural change.

As a key member of the Leadership Team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the charity’s overall strategy, planning, and policy development. Additionally, you will serve as a strategic business partner to the Executive Group and CEO.

Core competencies include (but not limited to):

Provide direction and leadership for the HR function together with appropriate interventions and strategies to support delivery of Charity strategy, direction of travel, transformation, organisational development and cultural change, securing approval and ownership of the approach by the Executive Group, and working with others to ensure delivery.
Lead employee related wellbeing, performance and development initiatives, ensuring employees are nurtured and supported to optimise performance, and developed as employees and people during their time at the Charity.
Ensure the organisation has strong employer brand so that it can attract, develop, manage, engage, retain and reward the best people; and taking specific responsibility for optimising the attraction, recruitment, retention, motivation and development of the Charity’s people.
Facilitate and enable good employee relations climate working with staff and union representatives, JNCC and managers to ensure employee interventions are appropriate and in line with relevant policy and procedures. Act as client on behalf of the Charity in employment related legal proceedings.
Ensure sufficient people support is maintained across the organisation; including optimum management structures, systems and MI provision and that the HR team are sufficient in terms of numbers, resources, skills, knowledge and experience.
Enable the production of strategic HR data to inform the monitoring and reporting of employee analytics and performance and employee related activity.
Represent the Charity in a senior capacity, role modelling and promoting the right leadership behaviours, influencing and collaborating with others to achieve the people and the overall organisational strategies;
Responsible for the continuous improvement of the HR function service delivery by keeping abreast of changes within employment, legislative requirements, associated digital landscape and wider innovations and good practice and applying appropriate developments to technology and techniques to improve efficiency, quality and impact.
Responsible for the identifying and managing the risks associated with employment and HR practices and ensuring all employment and HR related activity is carried out in accordance with the standards set out in the Human Resources policies and procedures, relevant protocols, industry and governance standards and bringing all variances to attention of appropriate senior management for appropriate action.
Leading by example, encouraging and role modelling transparency, learning from failure, reducing complexity, user centricity, collaborating, seeking feedback and ideas from all and using expertise from within.

About you:

Significant strategic experience in a senior HR leadership role within a complex organisation, delivering sophisticated cultural change and performance improvement.
Experience of designing, developing and successfully implementing ambitious people strategies, organisational development programmes and change solutions both at an operational and strategic level.
Able to manage competing priorities effectively including OD programmes as well as day to day activities, budgets and resources.

Benefits:

31 days annual leave plus bank holidays
Health cash plan
Pension

Working hours:

35 hours per week, Monday – Friday, Flexible hours.
Home working c3 days per week.

Lincoln Cornhill Executive is acting as an employment agency and business in relation to this role.

At LCE we try to respond to all applications personally, however, due to the high volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard back from us within 72 hours, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

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