Job Description

Assistant Director of Human Resources
\xc2\xa3600 per day
Location: Rotherham

Akton Recruitment are currently working with a local authority based in Rotherham to recruit an Assistant Head of Human Resources, to join the HR team on a 3-month contract (the role will be due to start on 1st November, possibly earlier, and will be set to end in February 2024, if not extended). The post holder will provide strategic and operational management and leadership to the service, reporting directly to the Assistant Chief Executive. They will also provide professional workforce related advice and briefings to senior political post holders enabling good decision making and governance. The postholder will also provide a strong sense of purpose and direction to counter national workforce challenges and to take forward opportunities.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage a range of discrete services, contributing to the strategic direction, impact and overall performance of the Directorate as a member of the Directorate Management Team (DLT).
• Develop a range of customer-focused services that are responsive and flexible with regard to customer need.
• Identify clear objectives for the whole service, overseeing development and performance management of action plans and ensuring identification and response to major risks.
• Provide full and detailed information to individual Elected Members and Cabinet to assist them in decision making with relation to activities covered by the Service.
• Review and challenge a range of management information to ensure best practice, value for money and most effective delivery models within the Service.
• Initiate and oversee the implementation of major change within the service including assessment of options and appropriate consultation and outcome review.
• Develop and foster effective relationships with external stakeholders, partners and agencies, representing and promoting the Council\'s interests with these groups.
• Ensure sufficient resources available to deliver service priorities through effective workforce planning including recruitment and selection, retention, talent management and succession planning.
• Contribute to the Council\'s budget process, advising Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Elected Members on service priorities and implications of budgetary options.
• Agree and prioritise the Service budget, ensuring spending is kept within agreed limits.
• Lead, manage and develop senior managers of the Service, ensuring delivery of management accountabilities through appropriate delegation.
• Provide support, assistance and deputising function to the Strategic Director, including Directorate responses to Borough emergencies and service continuity planning.

• Level 7 CIPD or equivalent qualification.

• Successful track record and background of consistent achievement as a senior manager in a large complex organisation.
• Substantial and successful direct management of resources experience in one or more of the services within the portfolio of this post.
• Exploiting new opportunities, leading and managing change to achieve improved outcomes-based customer focused services.
• Strategic budget management in a comparable organisation, including evaluation of competing budgetary priorities within tight financial limits.
• Establishing effective performance measures and a performance culture that achieves corporate and service objectives.
• Delivering successful partnership working with a wide range of internal and external people, developing a positive personal and organisational profile.
• Formulating, leading and implementing successful strategies and programmes that cross service or professional boundaries and provide integrated service outcomes, including providing strategic advice within a statutory framework.
• Experience of applying risk management in setting strategy and in identifying and managing principal risks to achievement of objectives.
• Practical knowledge of the legislative frameworks and key issues relevant to the portfolio of service responsibility.

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