Director of HR
Dulwich College
Southwark
- New
- Salary:
- Dependant upon skills and experience
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Apply by:
- 29 September 2024
Job overview
Director of HR
We’re looking for a visionary HR leader, someone who thrives on challenges and is ready to help us write Dulwich College’s next chapter. This is a really exciting time to be joining Dulwich, not only will you help shape this role, you’ll also play a crucial part in shaping the College and our people.
The Role
As our Director of Human Resources, you will modernise, streamline, and help us build a skilled, diverse, and inclusive workforce, with the overall responsibility for developing and delivering the College’s People Strategy.
The person
To be considered, you must have a proven track record in HR leadership and membership of a chartered professional body (such as CIPD) at level 7 or above. With this background, you can lead staff through change, deliver complex programmes and people-related initiatives, and provide authentic, inspiring, and visible leadership.
You will have an opportunity to shape the new strategy and will lead its successful delivery, working with the Senior Management Team. The postholder will also be responsible for identifying, developing and implementing innovative people projects that improve employee engagement, organisational performance and effectively support strategic priorities, mission and values.
To succeed, you will have a strong background in providing strategic HR support at a senior level and an understanding of the importance and impact of culture, values, behaviour, and leadership.
In addition, you’ll have the communication skills to express yourself clearly, whatever the challenge or task. With your ability to build strong relationships, you’ll make connections across the College.
An excellent people manager, you will champion inclusivity, role model our values, and help us deliver change. We employ a wide range of diverse staff groups and are navigating an exciting and challenging period of strategic change; we will be looking for you to bring experience that supports this. An understanding of the independent school sector would be desirable.
What you’ll get in return
From us you can expect a warm, friendly welcome and the support you need to be successful in this role.
You will also be generously rewarded with a competitive salary and great benefits, including fee remission, healthcare plan, employee assistance programme, free membership for you and your immediate family at Dulwich Sports Club, free daily lunch, free access to Dulwich Picture Gallery and generous shopping discounts. We also have a competitive company pension scheme, into which we contribute up to 10%.
From the moment you join you have 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, and the days between Christmas and New Year.
How to Apply
If you are excited by what you have read, we would love to hear from you. A candidate pack and details of how to apply can be found here: Staff Vacancies - Contact - Dulwich College
For enquiries about the role please contact Suzanne White on WhiteS1@dulwich.org.uk
About Dulwich College
Dulwich College is an academically selective independent boys’ school in south east London with a tradition of inspired teaching, genuine scholarship and co- curricular breadth. We are a school committed to providing a wealth of opportunities to pupils and colleagues within a nurturing, equitable and caring ethos.
There are approximately 1,630 boys on the school roll, of whom some 130 are boarders. There is a strong history of diversity at the College, reflecting that of south east London generally, but also that we are committed to an expanding programme of means-tested access. Currently about 30% of pupils have such an award but we hope to increase this to 50% in the coming years.
Situated in 70 acres, yet only 12 minutes by train from central London, the College enjoys outstanding academic, co-curricular and sporting facilities, including The Laboratory, a RIBA National Award-winning Science and Arts building. There has also been an extensive refurbishment of its iconic Grade II* listed Barry Buildings and surrounding landscaping.
Further information about the College can be found on our website www.dulwich.org.uk.
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