Chief People Officer

As Chief People Officer your key responsibilities will include: Strategic Leadership: Providing visionary leadership particularly in relation to workforce planning, skills and capability building, leadership development, performance management and recognition, culture, inclusion and wellbeing and excellence in business partnering.Transformation Management: Working with the Permanent Secretary, Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Strategy Director, to lead transformation in the Cabinet Office as it aligns with the objectives for the strategic centre of Government. Working with the COO and Chief Finance Officer (CFO) to seize opportunities and deliver change which consolidates corporate functional expertise and services internally and across departmental boundaries via shared services.Skills and capability: Overseeing the design and delivery of learning and development programmes that equip leadership, line managers and staff across CO locations with the skills and knowledge required to excel in their roles. Establishing and delivering a programme to build line manager and leadership capability aligned to cross government standards. Performance and recognition: Delivering a reward, recognition and performance management strategy which recognises high performance and reinforces core capabilities, behaviours and values.Employee Engagement and culture: Developing and implementing strategies to maintain high levels of staff engagement, inclusion, morale and wellbeing which align with the Cabinet Offices values.Business partnering and stakeholder management:Acting as senior business partner to the most senior leaders in the department.Leading the development of an expert and strategic business partnering function.Working in partnership with the Governments Chief People Officer and HR leaders across government to drive forward the people agenda for civil service.Modernise HR services: Shaping and leading the development of Cabinet Office HR professional capability and systems (as part of the Matrix Shared Services cluster). Ensuring services which are data and insight led, modern and intuitive and highly user focused. Wherever possible, exploiting opportunities for consolidation, simplification and shared services.