Job Introduction
Welcome
Thank you for your interest in joining the people team at Notting Hill Genesis as we begin to deliver our new three-year people strategy
You will join at a time of transition, as we strengthen our services, become stronger partners across NHG and enable our leaders to build capability, strengthen performance and deliver good outcomes for our residents.
People insights, systems and continuous improvement is a critical part of our work. We're focused on creating a modern, digitally enabled People service that empowers colleagues, improves decision-making and delivers a seamless colleague experience.
What the role is all about
The People Digital and Improvement Lead plays a vital role in our delivering our ambitions. This is a broad leadership role for someone who is a capable people manager, who can deliver with and through others and enjoys bringing together systems, data, insights/reporting and improvement activity to drive meaningful change. You'll work closely with colleagues across the people function and the organisation to ensure our people technology, insight and processes support better outcomes for colleagues, managers and the business.
Overall, you will help us to work in a smarter way and ensure we have great insight into our people and performance.
- Lead and develop a team of specialists, creating clear priorities and supporting high performance across systems, data, reporting and improvement activity.
- Lead our People systems services, ensuring they support an efficient and effective People function.
- Shape priorities for system improvements and digital enhancements across HR.
- Build strong relationships with suppliers and stakeholders to maximise value from our people technology.
- Lead HR digital and improvement projects, ensuring successful delivery and adoption.
- Develop reporting, dashboards and people insight that support informed decision-making across the organisation.
- Promote strong data governance and reporting standards, helping to improve confidence in our people data.
- Drive continuous improvement by simplifying processes, improving efficiency and enhancing the colleague experience.
- Work closely with HR leaders to identify opportunities for improvement and embed sustainable change.
- Champion digitally enabled ways of working that create a more connected, efficient and data-driven People service.
The ideal candidate
We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.
Essential:
- Experience leading, coaching and delivering through own team and others.
- Significant experience overseeing reporting and insight frameworks, including design of insight dashboards, KPIs, benchmarking, bringing different data sets together and external reporting requirements (experience with PowerBI is essential).
- Experience leading improvements across People systems with a good understanding of how systems, data and processes connect
- Experience delivering or overseeing digital or HR improvement or implementation projects, including scoping, governance, planning and change management.
- Strong understanding of HR processes and how digital tools, workflow design and reporting can improve efficiency and consistency
- Strong planning and project management skills across a programme of work and ability to track and measure outcomes.
Desirable:
- Experience working with HR systems suppliers and managing third-party relationships.
- Experience using ITrent, Cornerstone and/or Tribepad.
- Experience designing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives within HR functions.
What's in it for you?
Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.
Benefits include:
- Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
- Generous pension scheme
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
- Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
- Health cash plan
- Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
- Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Life Assurance x 4 annual salary
All about us
Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and we employ around 1,800 employees.
For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:
https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/
We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.
To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit:
https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/
Selection Process
Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! The closing date is 16th September
Step 2: Successful candidates will be invited to a screening interview with the Talent Acquisition team via Teams or phone call
Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to a selection assessment on Teams
Step 4: Successful candidates will be invited to an in-person interview
Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via jobs@nhg.org.uk.
NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
