Deputy Director - HR (Organisation Design and Development)

HM Land Registry

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 7th February 2025

 

Details

Reference number

380356

Salary

£90,000
c£90,000 subject to the usual SCS rules on promotion
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

SCS Pay Band 1

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

HMLR - HR and Organisation & Employee Development

Type of role

Business Management and Improvement
Human Resources
Senior leadership
Strategy

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time

Number of jobs available

1

Contents

Birkenhead, North West England, CH41 6DU : Croydon, London (region), CR0 2AQ : Coventry, West Midlands (England), CV1 2WT : Durham, North East England, DH1 5TR : Weymouth, South West England, DT4 9TT : Gloucester, South West England, GL1 1DQ : Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire and the Humber, HU2 8JN : Leicester, East Midlands (England), LE3 5DR : Nottingham, East Midlands (England), NG2 1AW : Peterborough, East of England, PE1 1QF : Plymouth, South West England, PL6 5WS : Warton, North West England, PR4 1TE : Swansea, Wales, SA7 9FQ : Telford, West Midlands (England), TF3 4LR

Job summary

HM Land Registry (HMLR) is looking for a truly exceptional and inspirational specialist for our newly created Deputy Director of HR (Organisation Design and Development) position. You will role model corporate leadership, organisational values and cultural aspirations and will be accountable for ensuring that all our design and development strategies and activities are effective and aligned to the strategic needs of the organisation.

We are introducing this role at a critical time for the organisation; we have already started investing in our leadership and line management capabilities; and through our Strategic Workforce Planning we are starting to build a clearer vision of the future changes we will need to make to the organisation over the coming years. There are still significant changes to make, and for the right candidate this role offers the opportunity to help create the Land Registry of the future.

For 160 years HMLR has been a critical part of the UK's national infrastructure. We protect the right to land and property in England and Wales and allow it to be bought and sold securely. Our service is truly unique in purpose and scale, we provide essential guarantees for our citizens’ greatest assets and are the cornerstone of a vibrant lending market that serves every part of the country. Our register contains more than 26 million titles providing ownership guarantees for 88% of land in England and Wales. The market is huge with over 8 trillion pounds worth of assets and over 260 billion pounds worth transacted every year. In 2023, HMLR received 32 million service requests.

Job description

In this newly created role, you will be a critical member of our Senior Executive Team, reporting directly into the Director of Human Resources. You will be responsible for supporting and leading on the development of over 7,000 staff across multiple locations throughout England and Wales. An important part of the role will be effectively managing and challenging our most senior stakeholders, including our Land Registry Board, our Directors, Deputy Directors and our wider leadership groups.

Person specification

To be successful in this role you will be a strategic thinker who is CIPD qualified and experienced in diagnosing, developing and delivering Organisation Design and Development (OD&D) solutions at pace in a range of contexts.

With experience of working in a complex and matrix-based organisation with competing demands, you will have the ability to deliver results through others. You will be an excellent communicator and a great collaborator who is able to evidence building and maintaining highly effective stakeholder relationships at all levels.

For more information about the role, please see the attached Candidate Pack. 

Alongside your salary of £90,000, HM Land Registry contributes £26,073 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

#WeAreHMLR

At HM Land Registry our vision is a world leading property market as part of a thriving economy and a sustainable future. We are unique in terms of the economic and social impacts of our work, our ability to make a positive difference to the lives of our customers, our sense of mission, and our great people. They are the foundation of all we have achieved and all we aspire to in the future. We want our people to feel proud to work for HM Land Registry and able to fulfil their full potential.

We have a strong and positive culture, a commitment to inclusivity, an emphasis on continuous learning and development, and flexible ways of working. We offer competitive pay and annual leave, attractive pension options and a wide range of other benefits.

  • We have integrity– we value honesty, trust and doing the right thing in the right way.
  • We drive innovation– we are forward-thinking, embrace change and are continually improving our processes.
  • We are professional– we value and grow our knowledge and professional expertise.
  • We give assurance– we guarantee our services and provide confidence to the property market.

You can find more information on our rewards package on our website.

Selection process details

We highly value diversity in all its forms and welcome applications from all sections of society.

HM Land Registry has appointed executive search specialists Veredus to support us with this appointment. For further information about the role and to apply, please visit www.veredus.co.uk quoting reference 17452.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confident Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If you require the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else you would like the panel to take into consideration, you are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

  • UK nationals
  • nationals of the Republic of Ireland
  • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
  • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
  • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
  • Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

  • Name : Andra Parvu
  • Email : Andra.Parvu@veredus.co.uk

Recruitment team

  • Email : hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance to the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, please email hrresourcingteam2@landregistry.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from HM Land Registry then you may take your complaint to the Civil Service Commission: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/making-complaint/

Follow link to apply

www.veredus.co.uk/jobs/

Attachments

SCS1 Deputy Director OD&D - Candidate Pack UPDATED Org Chart Opens in new window (pdf, 2093kB)

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