Head of HR Part Time

HS2
Description

Location: :Birmingham, Snow Hill or London, Podium

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish, and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As Head of HR at HS2 you will partner with client directors and senior leaders to understand the directorates business and priorities and identify HR interventions that support the delivery of the People strategy and business plan. The role holder is a member of the client group’s senior leadership team and enables provision of a responsive, professional HR service. They manage the successful delivery of HR solutions by acting as a strategic adviser to support business needs, improve business performance and support continuous development. The Head of HR is the conduit between the business and the HR function, helping client teams to access HR services in the most efficient and effective way.

About the role

• Align HR priorities to business priorities and deliver to the HS2 Skilled for Success Strategy outcomes
• Support the organisation by developing and supporting the implementation of a broad range of HR practices that help to raise organisational performance and productivity including succession planning and talent management
• Coach business leaders on performance management processes.
• Develop an understanding of the allocated business area so to enable effective planning and risk mitigation
• Influence and advise client group on the adoption of self-service HR, how they could maximise the potential of ERP, and how to ensure they are meeting their core line management responsibilities.
• Analyse HR data, identify trends and share insights with business leaders to support people-related decision-making.
• Lead, plan and provide expert advice on change management initiatives to increase overall effectiveness and efficiencies of the client group in line with HS2 values. For example, initiatives to reduce costs, and support performance improvement and innovation.
• Manage high priority and/or sensitive people management cases where not appropriate to be managed within the HR Shared Services team.
• Manage performance related pay review process for client group ensuring application of HS2 Framework Agreement.

Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

Qualifications About You:

• Coaching Skills – to enable people management in line with HS2 values
• Influencing and negotiation skills at a strategic level including challenging the organisational structure of the internal client and its purpose.
• Facilitation Skills – including the ability to deliver learning and development interventions at a senior level.
• Communication Skills – including the ability to provide briefs, presentations, and reports with complex information to non-technical audiences
• Organisation and Prioritisation skills – including the ability to prioritise multiple workstreams
• Stakeholder management skills – including advising senior leaders on budgets, risk management, performance management and talent development
• Knowledge of developing HR policies and practice

• Knowledge of UK employment law & Equality Act 2010
• Knowledge of HR tools for best practice and procedures to support business performance and improve people management capability
• CIPD qualified or equivalent
• HR generalist experience with the ability to build relationships and influence key business stakeholders, both internal and external.
• Experience of HR Business Partnering gained in an HR customer-facing environment.
• Experience of managing ER matters, including disciplinary & grievances
• Experience of developing and implementing HR policies and practices within a new or developing business
• Experience of working with, challenging & influencing a multi-disciplined management team
• Organisation and Prioritisation skills – including the ability to prioritise multiple workstreams

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies, and procedures on EDI.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. Please attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application and include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK’s new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain’s major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff – living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others’ health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our ‘Safe at Heart’ programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.