Head of Strategic Workforce Planning

Government Recruitment Service; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Strategic Resourcing Strategic Workforce Planning Lead to guide the Department for Work and Pensions' long-term workforce strategy, including contingent labour policy, and ensure delivery of high-quality, compliant resourcing across the department.

You will lead a cross-government stakeholder network, maintain a rolling five-year plan, and align strategic and in-year planning while driving governance, assurance and best practice in workforce planning.

Qualifications

• Lead the development and maintenance of a rolling five-year Strategic Workforce Plan.
• Align strategic and in-year workforce planning with departmental priorities.
• Develop and maintain Contingent Labour policy and procedures.
• Work with stakeholders to translate strategy into workforce actions.
• Ensure policy compliance with legislation and Civil Service requirements.
• Coordinate governance and assurance activity with the People Board and Cabinet Office.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, methodology and approach to Strategic Workforce Plan development for DWP. Maintaining a rolling five-year Strategic Workforce Plan, you will proactively interpret emerging departmental strategy, workforce transformation and operating model changes, articulating the workforce implications and developing the strategic narrative relating to the current and future workforce.
• Work closely with the Workforce Planning Lead to ensure alignment between strategic and in-year workforce planning activity, creating a joined-up approach to workforce planning across DWP and ensuring workforce decisions support both immediate business priorities and longer-term workforce requirements.
• Lead the development and maintenance of DWP's Contingent Labour strategy, acting as the departmental centre of expertise for Contingent Labour policy and procedures, ensuring arrangements remain compliant, effective and aligned to business needs.
• Work collaboratively across DWP to take a lead workforce role in key fiscal events, including Spending Reviews and wider government planning exercises, working with colleagues to develop workforce narratives, assess workforce implications and support strategic decision-making.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across DWP in developing options and addressing people issues that support the delivery of wider departmental strategies affecting strategic resourcing, including estates strategy, ensuring workforce plans align with wider Civil Service initiatives such as Places for Growth and Plan for London.
• Ensure DWP's strategic workforce planning and contingent labour policies and procedures are aligned with current legislation, fit for purpose and meet business requirements, providing strategic oversight for the development, maintenance, interpretation and application of policy across the Department.
• Coordinate key strategic workforce planning governance and assurance activity, including regular reporting to the Department's People Board and the Cabinet Office, helping promote effective governance, assurance and compliance across workforce planning activity.
• Build networks and draw on expertise and insights from across People and Place, the wider Civil Service and external organisations to identify best practice, champion innovation, test and evaluate new approaches, and make evidence-based decisions that continuously improve DWP's workforce planning and strategic resourcing practices.
• Take a lead role in building a high-performing and highly capable workforce planning community across the Department, ensuring business-embedded colleagues and wider People and Place roles (including HRBPs and Resource Account Managers) have the understanding, tools and capability required to undertake effective workforce planning and strategic workforce planning activity.
• Lead a high-performing team and empower them to deliver a challenging and varied portfolio of work, providing support, coaching and development opportunities that build capability and establish the team as recognised experts in workforce planning and strategic resourcing.

Job description

Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Strategic Resourcing Strategic Workforce Planning Lead to guide the Department for Work and Pensions' long-term workforce strategy, including contingent labour policy, and ensure delivery of high-quality, compliant resourcing across the department.

You will lead a cross-government stakeholder network, maintain a rolling five-year plan, and align strategic and in-year planning while driving governance, assurance and best practice in workforce planning.