HR Deputy Director Border Force
Home Office
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 16th February 2025
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Job summary
This is a strategic leadership role within the Home Office HR team reporting directly to the Chief People Officer supporting Border Force with all People related matters. As well as being a key member of the HR and Border Force Executive Teams, you will play a vital role in developing and maintaining a strategic agenda of organisational change.
This role is highly influential, leading at the most senior level with a focus on delivering effective people strategies for the business. Delivering organisational change to maximise operational performance with a strong operational delivery focus will be your strengths.
Border Force currently comprises FTE 11,962 with an HRBP team of 18, two of which report directly to HR Deputy Director.
You will be at the forefront of building great leadership at all levels across the organisation to deliver sustained high performance; ensuring expert workforce design to future proof the requirements of the department; and will lead the building of longer-term capability through organisational change and the development of a highly skilled workforce.
You will be a close partner to the Director General for Border Force and will lead a HR Business Partner team with access to the wider HR value-chain. You will play an active role in the ongoing corporate management and development of the organisation.
Job description
Key responsibilities include:
- Building strong business partnering relationships during a time of organisational change to ensure successful delivery of people priorities;
- Supporting delivery of Border Force people, workforce, resourcing and learning strategies, that support the achievement of Border Force’s operational priorities whilst ensuring they are aligned with wider Home Office strategies;
- Leading and developing a team of HR professionals, whilst building strong business partnering relationships through closely working with the Director General and their senior leadership team;
- Working with colleagues across the HR function to ensure that the needs of Border Force are appropriately represented and, where necessary, commissioning services and products from corporate HR teams and HR service providers;
- Leading HR initiatives and playing a key role in influencing the business to follow HR policies, guidelines and service channels;
- Identifying and developing ‘best in class' HR practice within Border Force, including strategic workforce planning, Organisation Design and Development, talent management, succession planning and performance management;
- Delivering restructuring within the organisation, with an emphasis on Organisational Design and Development and culture change;
- Work alongside the HR Deputy Director for Immigration Enforcement to identify and create alignment and efficiency opportunities in how the Border Force and Immigration Enforcement HR teams work together;
- Taking a corporate leadership role within the Home Office with responsibility for progressing the development of the Civil Service Professions;
- Provide visible day to day leadership, role modelling the Civil Service Leadership Behaviours and Home Office Values.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate their knowledge, experience, capability and behavioural approach to a high standard against the following key criteria:
- A track record of successfully delivering positive outcomes at a senior level, working closely with Chief People Officer, Border Force Director General or equivalent level executive leaders, with a particular focus on Organisation Design and Development and complex problem solving.
- Experience of drawing on operational insights, long term impact of wider events and creating a coherent joined up HR and operational approach that delivers positive people results.
- The ability to maintain and manage complex relations, build high trusted relationships with senior customers and the confidence and credibility to challenge when necessary, using both data and analytical ability. This will include close working with various trade unions and external high-profile stakeholders therefore influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills in a complex and challenging environment;
- Evidence of building capability, employee engagement, improving workforce diversity and supporting performance management through inclusive leadership, with experience of leading the delivery of people focused, transformational change management programmes.
- The ability to build a data / management information capability to support and drive conversations with senior customers that shape and inform people and operational strategies and action plans; a focus on continuous improvement, re-designing the scope of functions, introducing new methodologies and making best use of available technology.
- Chartered Fellow Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) member or equivalent professional HR qualification.
Desirable Criteria
- Evidence of leading and developing a high performing HR Business Partner team.
- Experience of working in/enabling an operational environment.
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
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Selection process details
Online Application
Please follow the Job Advert instructions on the Civil Service Jobs website to apply online, no later than 23:55hrs on Sunday 16th February 2025.
Provide some basic personal information;:
- A CV - setting out your career history, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, including details where budgets and numbers of people managed, relevant achievements in recent posts, together with reasons for any gaps within the last two years;
- A Statement of Suitability – (limited to 1250 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria in the person specification.
- Diversity Monitoring -as part of the online application process, you will be asked a number of diversity-related questions. If you do not wish to provide a declaration on any of the characteristics, you will have the option to select 'prefer not to say'. See the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy: 2022 to 2025 (HTML) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more information.
It is essential that in your written application you give evidence, using examples, of proven experience. These responses will be developed and discussed with candidates invited for interview. Failure to submit both a CV and Supporting Statement will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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.
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Job contact :
- Name : Carole-Ann Montgomery
- Email : carole-ann.montgomery@homeoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : HORCSCSRecruitment@homeoffice.gov.uk
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