You will provide the highest level of strategic Human Resources, Organisational Development and Transformation leadership and management necessary to ensure that Manchester City Council is able to deliver the ambition and aspirations of ‘Our Manchester’ as the long-term vision for the future of the City.

Immediate objectives include:

• Utilise HR&OD’s influence on workforce culture to drive positive behaviours across the council, with an emphasis on personal responsibility.
• Improve workforce engagement and increase productivity.
• Raise the standard of leadership and management across the organisation raising the bar for our managers, re-setting what is expected of them in terms of motivating and inspiring their employees and emphasising the importance of new ways of working, whilst building related support and development opportunities.
• Promote effective performance management across the organisation ensuring that employees and managers are both accountable for performance and empowered to make decisions.
• Reshape and improve the skills of the workforce, expanding development opportunities and introducing new people through apprenticeships, graduate schemes, work placements and other programmes.
• Develop and introduce new and smarter ways of working.
• Ensure there is effective collaboration with partners across Greater Manchester, making an effective contribution to devolution and public sector reform.
• Play a key role in delivering the integration of Health and Social Care across the City from a workforce perspective with the overall aim to ensure the ambitions and outcomes for Manchester citizens are realised.
• Maintain the Council’s positive partnership with trade unions.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Evidence of a proven track record as a successful professional Human Resources, Organisational Development and Transformation leader at a senior level.
• Able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge relevant to the post including the ability to explain complex issues that are likely to be encountered in the role and provide related authoritative advice to members and senior officers.
• Evidence of creating and delivering improvements at a strategic level, including culture change, across HR & OD areas within a large organisation (public or private sector).
• Evidence of accomplished negotiating and influencing skills, including the ability to both develop and sustain positive trade union relationships.

Indicative Timetable

Closing date for applications: Friday 28 October 2022
Preliminary/technical interviews: Friday 11 November 2022
Final interviews: Monday 12 December 2022 (in person interviews)

Details of the Panel Members and arrangements for interviews will be provided to selected candidates.

For a confidential discussion about the role please contact our retained consultants at Faerfield:

Dawn Faulkner
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: dfaulkner@faerfield.co.uk

Sarah Longbottom
Tel: 0121 312 3755
Email: slongbottom@faerfield.co.uk