Head of HR

Wellcome Trust; London; On-site; GBP 127,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wellcome Trust is seeking a Head of HR to join its People Leadership team. This role involves strategic HR partnership with senior leadership, aiming to enhance workplace performance and implement comprehensive HR strategies. The ideal candidate will possess significant HR experience, expertise across all HR disciplines, and strong coaching and relationship management skills, within a hybrid working environment.

Benefits

Flexible working environment

Hybrid working model

Diversity and Inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Significant HR partnering experience at Executive/Senior Leadership level.
• Expertise in developing and delivering People Strategies.
• Broad experience across all HR disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Executive Committee to drive HR strategies.
• Provide expert HR guidance and coaching to Senior Leaders.
• Enhance organisational performance and employee engagement.

Skills

Coaching

Influencing

Relationship Management

Business Acumen

Job description

Salary: £ 126,100

Closing date: Thursday 17thJuly

Contract type: Permanent

Interview dates: W/C 28thJuly and 4thAugust

The Wellcome Trust is a global charitable foundation. We improve health for everyone by funding science, leading policy and advocacy campaigns, and building partnerships.

We plan to spend £16bn over the next ten years, funding new discoveries in life, health, and wellbeing, and taking on three global health challenges: mental health, infectious disease and climate and health.

These challenges need the bold science we support, but they won’t be solved by science alone.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Head of HR to join the People Leadership teamto play an active role in helping develop and implement the plans enabling Wellcome become the best place to work, in support of the delivery of the mission.

Reporting into the Chief People Officer the Head of HR will partner closely with the Executive Committee to influence, develop and drive HR strategies aligned to the functions and across the organisation to enhance organisational performance, employee engagement and talent management.

The Head of HR will be a trusted adviser to Wellcome’s Senior Leaders, providing expert HR guidance, coaching and support, using insight to improve people and organisational outcomes.

You can view the full job description on our website

To apply for this role please submit an up-to-date CV and answer 2 application questions to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements for the role. The minimum requirements of the role are:

• Significant HR partnering experience at Executive/Senior Leadership Team level.

• Expertise in developingand delivering People Strategies for client groups aligned to anorganisationalwide Peoplestrategy.

• Broad and comprehensive experience across all HR disciplines (Reward, ER, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, Organisational Change).

• Extensive experience working effectively with PeopleCentresof Excellence to deliver and embed key strategic people projects into theorganisation.

• Strong coaching and influencing and relationship management skills andexperience.

• Strong intellect and business acumen, as a full member of the leadership teams, they will need to be able to contribute to the full organisation agenda

You can read more about the benefits we offer our employees on our website

Our Hybrid Way of Working

We understand that our colleagues have commitments and personal interests outside of work and we strive to build a flexible working environment, in which people can perform at their best.

At Wellcome we have a hybrid way of working which is 3 days in our Euston Road offices (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) with the remaining 2 days working either remotely or in the office.

Diversity and Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do

Diversity and Inclusion is a priority at Wellcome. We are committed to cultivating a fair andinclusiveenvironment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We are happy to discuss flexible working options for all roles. We work to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible to everyone. This includesmaking adjustmentsfor people who have a disability or long-term condition.Please visit our websitefor more information on adjustments and accessibility or contact us [e-mail].

Upon a conditional offer being made, the successful applicant for this position will be required to undertake a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service (or equivalent) criminal record check to disclose any ‘unspent’ criminal convictions or conditional cautions under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. The criminal record check with not show anything that is ‘spent’.

For further guidance on disclosure of criminal records please see this UK Government Guidance . You can view our Policy Statement on the Recruitment of Ex-offenders here . You can view our Privacy Statement here .

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