Director of People

Could you be Incommunities new Director of People? We are looking for an experienced leader to play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering our new 5-year People Strategy.

About us

We are a social housing landlord and one of the largest housing providers in the region with over 22,000 social and affordable homes, mainly in the Bradford district. We employ a talented workforce of nearly 1,000 people.

This year we’ve launched our five-year Corporate Strategy, which runs to 2029. Our purpose is to provide high quality homes, services, and support to our customers, so we’ve worked with colleagues and customers to find out what’s important to them. Our customers sit at the heart of what we do, and our colleagues are the people who’ll help us achieve our vision, which is to create the best customer experience to improve everyday lives.

Duties

• Strategic and Transformational Leadership: Envision the future, develop our EDI plan in-line with our overall strategic aims and objectives.
• Empathy and Customer Focus: Identify and address employee satisfaction, align employee and customer experiences, and deliver excellent people services.
• Implement and Drive the 5-Year People Strategy: Turn our people strategy into action, prioritising initiatives that enhance the employee experience. Focus on our core principles to improve engagement, retention, and growth, helping us deliver on our vision for a thriving, people-centered workplace.
• Drive Culture and Employee Experience: Shape and elevate our workplace culture by collaborating closely with peers across functions. Partner with your peer Director group to influence organisational behaviours and ways of working, ensuring a cohesive approach to a positive employee experience.
• Lead Key Strategic People Initiatives: Oversee key initiatives such as our pay and reward strategies, support for target operating model, and effective trade union negotiations, and strategic ER support. Drive these critical projects with a focus on fairness and alignment with organisational goals.
• Enhance Internal Communications in Partnership with Comms and Marketing: You will ensure internal communications align seamlessly with our people agenda, fostering engagement and a shared understanding of our vision, purpose and values.
• Innovation through Tech and Data Proficiency: Utilise technology to enhance employee experience, use data for decision-making and insights, and maintain an agile mindset for sustained change.
• Manage a team of brilliant individuals: Oversee the People Experience and People Support teams, fostering cohesion and collaboration to deliver a unified approach to the people agenda
• Strengthen HR Risk Management and Governance: Lead a robust HR risk framework that empowers managers to proactively identify and address HR risks. Ensure clear accountability and escalation processes, enhancing compliance, resilience, and sustainable growth.

• Align our people experience to our customer experience, outside in and inside out.
• Proven experience of delivering both people and EDI strategies in a similar size organisation.
• A proven track record of leading and implementing organisational change and strong change management expertise
• Experience overseeing initiatives like pay and reward strategies, ER and trade union negotiations.
• Demonstratable experience in assessing, mitigating and managing risk and implementing governance frameworks within a people-focused environment.
• Attendance in the office at least 2 - 3 days per week

• Salary of £97,000 per year
• West Yorkshire Pension Fund membership - Current employer contribution is 15.5%
• Our Hub: our wellbeing and benefits site, with exclusive access to discounts and savings (at over 800 retailers)
• Excellent holiday allowance that increases with service
• Option to buy and sell annual leave
• Training, development, and qualification opportunities
• Agile and hybrid working
• Corporate health scheme membership
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Free parking onsite

Click here for further information - https://www.incommunitiescareers.com/

We are an equal opportunity employer but beyond characteristics protected by law, we welcome and value applicants from diverse backgrounds, abilities and perspectives.

Incommunities is also recognised as ‘Committed’ to being Menopause Friendly. The Menopause Friendly Accreditation recognises inclusive employers that build awareness and understanding of how menopause can have an effect at work and shows we take the wellbeing of our colleagues seriously.