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90583 - Strategic Workforce Planning Manager
| Posting date: | 11 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £39,868 to £50,039 per year |
| Additional salary information: | The national salary range is £39,868 - £43,535, London salary range is £45,824 - £50,039. Your salary will be dependent on your base location |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 October 2024 |
| Location: | UK |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Ministry of Justice |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 90583 |
Summary
We are looking for a motivated Strategic Workforce Planning Manager to work in a challenging and exciting environment. Working with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders, you will have the opportunity to embed a new approach to strategic workforce planning (SWP), ensuring alignment with the delivery of MoJ business objectives and the Civil Service workforce agenda. This will include the assessment, development and embedding of new tools and processes that will provide clear oversight of Strategic Workforce Planning performance in the MoJ.
You will have the opportunity to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, seeing first-hand how your influence can deliver a better Justice service to society.
Your responsibilities will be to
Design, develop and embed appropriate tools, guidance and templates to support business areas in the development of their workforce plans.
Build and maintain a network of Workforce Planning Leads from all business groups, agencies and ALBs and be their single point of contact regarding workforce planning.
Build and maintain a network of those supporting Workforce Planning in the business groups, HR and Finance Business Partners.
Create new tools, guidance and templates to drive SWP maturity across MoJ. Promote best practice and ensure internal workforce planning practices and guidance are up to date to encourage alignment and maturity in SWP. Coach stakeholders and take forward new initiatives, with upskilling colleagues being a passion and clear objective.
Develop an expertise around the themes that support workforce planning, e.g., location strategy, labour market, skills & capability, megatrends, automation, lead the business in understanding the impacts of these themes.
Support Strategic Workforce Planning Leads in enabling MoJ to transition to a new Strategic Workforce Planning process delivering against milestones, identifying potential risks and mitigation, providing affordable workforce solutions to underpin effective business led action planning and reflect the expected future shape, size and geographical footprint of the workforce.
Develop a deep understanding of business group and MoJ complex workforce data and sources.
Deliver presentations that are tailored to audience needs to provide business reports and insights. Produce board level papers to ensure that the executive board has an accurate picture of the workforce. Produce corporate communications relaying workforce insights and plans. Be able to draft urgent commissions at short notice.
You’ll be a highly motivated person who meets the following essential criteria:
Experience of workforce planning processes and procedures, or a good understanding of the key principles involved.
Skilled in building strong working relationships to understand customer needs, deliver complex information and generate ‘buy-in’ from key stakeholders.
Experience of working collaboratively across teams, confidently with senior colleagues, with a broad range of diverse and demanding stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to derive insight from multiple data sources, use of data to support debate, statistical analysis and problem solve complex challenges.
Experience of managing complex issues and juggling priorities.
Strong drafting/writing skills with the ability to produce Board level papers; corporate communication messages; and tools and guidance that are fit for purpose.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge:
CIPD accreditation, a related field, or a willingness to study to achieve it.
Knowledge of workforce trends e.g. emerging trends, government influence, employment trends, skills development.
What we do
The Future Workforce Design Team are an exciting and dynamic team who sit within the newly established Business Architecture and Transformation Directorate, under the Business Architecture Division. We work extensively with stakeholders across the organisation to support business areas in planning the workforce of the future. We develop the systems, tools and guidance to support strategic workforce planning across the MoJ and provide consultancy services to key business areas on their future workforce requirements.
The Business Architecture Division is a new team at the heart of the MoJ within COO Group and will work to help identify opportunities and in turn formulate a strategy to improve the way services are delivered, the organisation is structured and ensure we invest in the right skills and capability for our future workforce. The Division works hand in hand with colleagues across the department, and closely with core People, Strategy and Strategic Finance colleagues in the preparation, delivery and implementation of fiscal and political events for the MoJ through the lens of people, infrastructure and capability.
The new Business Architecture and Transformation Directorate supports and works with the MoJ leadership team, and in turn advise ExCo, on the people, skills, capability, resilience and infrastructure needed across the department to put us in the best possible place to deliver for the current and future Governments. We work alongside MoJ People and in partnership with other functions and teams to ensure the machinery of the department is efficient but maintains a strong ‘people first’ culture.
Civil Service Assessment Process
The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles, these are made up of 5 elements.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles
You will have the opportunity to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders, seeing first-hand how your influence can deliver a better Justice service to society.
Your responsibilities will be to
Design, develop and embed appropriate tools, guidance and templates to support business areas in the development of their workforce plans.
Build and maintain a network of Workforce Planning Leads from all business groups, agencies and ALBs and be their single point of contact regarding workforce planning.
Build and maintain a network of those supporting Workforce Planning in the business groups, HR and Finance Business Partners.
Create new tools, guidance and templates to drive SWP maturity across MoJ. Promote best practice and ensure internal workforce planning practices and guidance are up to date to encourage alignment and maturity in SWP. Coach stakeholders and take forward new initiatives, with upskilling colleagues being a passion and clear objective.
Develop an expertise around the themes that support workforce planning, e.g., location strategy, labour market, skills & capability, megatrends, automation, lead the business in understanding the impacts of these themes.
Support Strategic Workforce Planning Leads in enabling MoJ to transition to a new Strategic Workforce Planning process delivering against milestones, identifying potential risks and mitigation, providing affordable workforce solutions to underpin effective business led action planning and reflect the expected future shape, size and geographical footprint of the workforce.
Develop a deep understanding of business group and MoJ complex workforce data and sources.
Deliver presentations that are tailored to audience needs to provide business reports and insights. Produce board level papers to ensure that the executive board has an accurate picture of the workforce. Produce corporate communications relaying workforce insights and plans. Be able to draft urgent commissions at short notice.
You’ll be a highly motivated person who meets the following essential criteria:
Experience of workforce planning processes and procedures, or a good understanding of the key principles involved.
Skilled in building strong working relationships to understand customer needs, deliver complex information and generate ‘buy-in’ from key stakeholders.
Experience of working collaboratively across teams, confidently with senior colleagues, with a broad range of diverse and demanding stakeholders.
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to derive insight from multiple data sources, use of data to support debate, statistical analysis and problem solve complex challenges.
Experience of managing complex issues and juggling priorities.
Strong drafting/writing skills with the ability to produce Board level papers; corporate communication messages; and tools and guidance that are fit for purpose.
Desirable Skills and Knowledge:
CIPD accreditation, a related field, or a willingness to study to achieve it.
Knowledge of workforce trends e.g. emerging trends, government influence, employment trends, skills development.
What we do
The Future Workforce Design Team are an exciting and dynamic team who sit within the newly established Business Architecture and Transformation Directorate, under the Business Architecture Division. We work extensively with stakeholders across the organisation to support business areas in planning the workforce of the future. We develop the systems, tools and guidance to support strategic workforce planning across the MoJ and provide consultancy services to key business areas on their future workforce requirements.
The Business Architecture Division is a new team at the heart of the MoJ within COO Group and will work to help identify opportunities and in turn formulate a strategy to improve the way services are delivered, the organisation is structured and ensure we invest in the right skills and capability for our future workforce. The Division works hand in hand with colleagues across the department, and closely with core People, Strategy and Strategic Finance colleagues in the preparation, delivery and implementation of fiscal and political events for the MoJ through the lens of people, infrastructure and capability.
The new Business Architecture and Transformation Directorate supports and works with the MoJ leadership team, and in turn advise ExCo, on the people, skills, capability, resilience and infrastructure needed across the department to put us in the best possible place to deliver for the current and future Governments. We work alongside MoJ People and in partnership with other functions and teams to ensure the machinery of the department is efficient but maintains a strong ‘people first’ culture.
Civil Service Assessment Process
The Civil Service recruits using Success Profiles, these are made up of 5 elements.
www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles