HR Deputy Director - Immigration Enforcement
Location: Liverpool with frequent travel to other UK Home Office Hub locations
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
Job grade: SCS Pay Band 1
Job summary
Immigration Enforcement (IE) is one of the Home Office’s highest profile operational commands, working in fast paced, complex and politically sensitive environments. With a workforce of around 6,800 colleagues, strong, strategic, people focused leadership is essential to delivering modern, high performing services that earn public trust.
Reporting to the Chief People Officer and leading a team of 12, you will be the senior people leader to the Director General for IE and their Executive Committee. You will shape IE’s people strategy, champion culture and capability, and lead organisational design and workforce transformation across one of the department’s most demanding operational areas.
As the senior HR partner for Immigration Enforcement, you will:
* Act as the Director General’s primary HR adviser, shaping decisions on workforce, culture and talent.
* Provide clear, evidence-based insight and challenge, enabling confident decision making at pace.
Lead system wide people strategy for a major operational command
* Develop and deliver workforce, capability, organisational development and talent strategies aligned to IE’s operational priorities and the wider Home Office strategy.
* Use data, insight and modelling to anticipate future workforce needs and build sustainable long-term solutions.
Drive leadership capability and cultural transformation
* Build leadership capability at all levels, strengthening performance, accountability, inclusion and engagement.
* Champion the Home Office values Compassionate, Respectful, Courageous and Collaborative, and support delivery of the Future Home Office ambition.
Lead a high performing HR Business Partnering team
* Provide strong, visible leadership to a team of around 12, creating a culture of professionalism, collaboration and continuous improvement.
* Partner across the wider HR function to influence and shape corporate HR services so they are designed around the current and future needs of Immigration Enforcement.
* Identify and embed best practice across organisational design, talent management, succession planning, workforce planning and performance management.
* Work with the HR Deputy Director for Border Force to improve alignment, consistency and efficiency across the operational HR system.
Contribute as a corporate leader
* Play an active role in the HR Directorate’s senior leadership community and the wider Home Office corporate leadership agenda.
* Lead cross departmental initiatives relating to Civil Service professions, capability and talent pipelines.
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