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We're seeking experienced Strategic People Partners to deliver innovative HR services, products, and solutions tailored to our customers' needs. As our organisation scales, you'll empower business leaders to enhance performance through robust workforce planning, leadership development, organisational effectiveness, staff capability and skills, staff engagement, and talent development.
Operating at both strategic and tactical advisory levels, our People Partners are integral members of their respective business area's leadership teams. You'll be highly respected for your insights and contributions to developing business strategy.
You'll develop a deep understanding of our organisation's priorities, ways of working, challenges, and opportunities. Using this knowledge, you'll make significant contributions to achieving these priorities, championing strategic workforce planning and organisational design practices. Your work will help create a capable, confident, and resilient workforce aligned with our key objectives.
Your main areas of focus will change depending on the needs and priorities of your Directorate.
The core responsibilities are as follows:
Strategic People Partnership:
* Work with senior leaders to maintain high standards of delivery and behaviour.
* Partner on strategic workforce planning, developing robust organisational structures and resourcing plans for current and future needs.
* Build leadership capability to maximise skills across a diverse workforce.
* Lead on talent and development initiatives to build a highly skilled workforce.
* Coach senior leaders on leadership, performance, and cultural issues, role modelling organisational values.
Data-Driven Decision Making:
* Use people analytics, performance metrics, and survey data to inform decisions and provide data-driven recommendations.
* Lead an evidence-based approach to people plans with clear metrics to assess effectiveness.
Innovative Solutions & Implementation:
* Solve complex business challenges with innovative and practical people-focused solutions.
* Oversee the implementation of interventions across leadership capability, workforce planning, talent management, resourcing, performance, and development.
* Provide objective, pragmatic, and professional solutions that balance the needs of the organisation, groups, and teams.
Leadership:
* Drive strategic skills development linked to workforce plans.
* Partner with senior leaders to align local people plans with wider objectives.
* Lead large HR programs, ensuring alignment with business needs.
* Collaborate with senior leadership to drive positive leadership practices and deliver high-impact initiatives.
Person specification
To be successful in the role, we are looking for candidates with:
* Proven experience as Senior HR Professional
* Sound knowledge and experience across the whole HR spectrum, and the ability to develop a wide understanding of business priorities.
* Experience of building strong, trusting, and influential relationships with senior stakeholders to provide appropriate challenge, navigate differing views and priorities, and ensure people issues and impacts are fully considered.
* Experience of partnering with subject matter experts and senior leaders to build leadership capability, and lead workforce planning, talent, and development initiatives.
* Confident in interpreting and communicating data to develop insight-driven, evidence-based solutions, with experience analysing strategic HR and business data and feedback to generate impactful insights.
* A strategic mindset, with the ability to align workforce initiatives to business objectives.
* The ability to interpret and present workforce analytics to drive decisions.
* Strong stakeholder management skills, able to influence and advise leaders.
Qualifications
Essential Level 5 CIPD qualification, but ideally Level 7, or working towards.
We will require proof of your qualification prior to the interview.
Next Steps
Join us at Companies House and experience the difference of working within a culture that values you, not only as an employee, but as an integral part of our Companies House team.
We offer an excellent benefits package that includes:
* Flexible working arrangements that empower you to strike a perfect balance between your professional and personal life.
* 30 Days Annual Leave and 8 Bank Holidays and 1 Privilege Day.
* Enrolment into the Civil Service Pension Scheme with a contribution rate of averaging 28.97%.
Click 'Apply Now' to be taken to our main advert Civil Service Jobs where you can see more details regarding the role, the incredible benefits we have to offer and what it's like to work in Companies House.
If you have any questions about the role or process, please reach out to recruitmentch@companieshouse.gov.uk.
This role closes on 03 September 2025 at 23:55.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Strategy/Planning, Business Development, and Human Resources
* Industries
Government Administration
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