Executive Director – People, Culture and Wellbeing

Purpose

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team:

• This is an inspirational role to drive the people experience agenda across the College, demonstrating the attributes and behaviours of the Nolan Principles of Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty and Leadership along with the college’s vision and values.
• To contribute to the development and implementation of strategies, plans and organisational climate, that will enable Hopwood Hall College to be an outstanding college and exceed the expectations of its staff, learners and employers.
• To ensure the college is agile to anticipate and respond to the educational landscape within the changing economic climate and to national, regional and local priorities. Ensuring the college is seen as an effective and responsive contributor to the communities it serves.
• To be an active and effective member of the college’s Senior Leadership Team and to make a decisive contribution to the corporate development of the college.
• To attend Corporation meetings, sub-committee meetings and Governor training sessions as appropriate and lead on relevant working groups and committees as required.
• To act as a chair for student positive behaviour meetings and student appeals.
• To build, develop and effectively manage the teams within the remit of the role using the college’s performance management system to ensure high performance and business efficiency.

As the Executive Director – People, Culture and Wellbeing

To lead a multi-functional team across;

● Human Resources

● Safeguarding and Wellbeing

● Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Lead the development and implementation of strategies, policies, practices and services in People, Culture and Wellbeing.
• Lead the college’s operational planning for Human Resourcing in order to ensure the effective running of the college’s business affairs and the achievement of the Strategic Intentions. 
• To be the Senior Leadership Team Lead for Safeguarding (Designated Safeguarding Officer).

Duties

College Strategic Intentions

• Contribute to the development of a viable long-term strategy and shorter term operational plans, that will enable the College to attract, retain & deploy the people resources necessary for it to achieve its goals. Implementation & delivery against Plans.
• Monitor the implementation and delivery of the strategy and ensure the plans are successfully implemented or amended in the context of the changing landscape of further education. 

Key Accountabilities

• To build, develop and effectively manage teams within the remit of the role using the college’s performance management system to ensure high performance and business efficiency
• Collaborate with colleagues, communities, employers and agencies to ensure that relevant strategies, plans and actions are coordinated and the image of the organisation is promoted to support its overall growth and success

Human Resources

• To be accountable for the development and implementation of the College’s People Strategy aligned to the College’s Strategic Intentions, and manage the strategy and processes relating to building and optimising people centred activities, and creating an environment where people thrive and ensuring the College’s internal and external “inclusive employer of choice” brand is enhanced
• Ensure best practice in the HR & OD function through horizon scanning and external networking.
• To ensure that the college’s people management is compliant with all related legislation and regulations
• Contribute to the development of the people management skills, competence and confidence of all line leaders through coaching, training and advisory support. This will include the coaching of all college leaders in managing organisational change and dealing effectively with associated employee relations matters.
• Ensure our leaders are equipped to deliver change programmes and that the benefits are realised.  Support the college transformation programmes as a specialist and reinforcing the leaders’ role as custodians of our culture
• With the Principal’s support, ensuring that Senior Leadership Team are coached and challenged to hold people accountable for delivery of collective and individual objectives. 
• Resource Planning & People Development - define plans to build capability amongst the leadership and staff groups across the College. 
• Define and ensure the policies and practices to manage the performance improvement of individuals and teams within the College. 
• Lead on the delivery and outcomes of employee engagement activity through which colleague voice is heard, captured and responded to.
• Ensuring that organisation work climate and staff attitudes are regularly assessed across the College, and that arising priorities are actioned by leading on developing colleague wellbeing initiatives to support and enhance colleague experience.
• Ensure the development and effective application of employee communication policies and practices across the College in order to promote a culture of mutual support, co-operation and shared purpose across the organisation.
• Lead on developing innovative workforce wellbeing initiatives to support and enhance our employees’ experience.
• Define recruitment, selection and appointment policies and practices for the College, and ensure their effective and consistent application so that people with the right skills are recruited and inducted into the organisation.
• Contribute to the preparation and monitoring of the College staffing budget to enable the senior team to maintain an accurate staffing establishment and meet the targets of the annual College financial budget
• Define and ensure the effective application of remuneration policies and practices across the College to attract, retain, motivate and develop its people.
• Positively leading our partnership with recognised Trade Unions including chairing JNC and local pay negotiation meetings.
• Oversee the effective provision of the outsourced Payroll & Pensions service

Safeguarding

• To act as the Senior Leadership Team Safeguarding Lead on all aspects of safeguarding, Prevent and student support/wellbeing services, and be accountable for ensuring the safeguarding and welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults who are students of the College, in accordance with statutory guidance.
• Ensure that safeguarding support is planned, delivered and monitored to best meet the needs of individual learners. This will include the provision of dedicated specialist support for all students.
• Lead on developing innovative student wellbeing initiatives to support and enhance our students’ experience.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

• Lead on the College’s equality & diversity agenda for enhancing colleague and student experience, and the delivery of the Strategic Intention - Champions of Inclusivity.
• Oversee the effective delivery of the college’s EDI Strategy.