Strategic Resourcing Strategic Workforce Planning Lead

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP); Sheffield; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeking a Lead for Strategic Workforce Planning to shape a rolling five-year plan. You will interpret departmental strategy and workforce transformation, articulating implications and developing the strategic narrative for current and future workforce.

Working with the Workforce Planning Lead, you will align strategic and in-year planning, lead the Contingent Labour policy as a centre of expertise, ensuring compliance and strong business alignment.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, methodology and approach to Strategic Workforce Plan development for DWP.
• Maintaining a rolling five-year Strategic Workforce Plan, you will interpret emerging departmental strategy, workforce transformation and operating model changes.
• Articulate the workforce implications and develop the strategic narrative relating to current and future workforce.

Skills

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Policy development

Governance

People leadership

Job description

• 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.

  From the design and development of policies to the delivery of services supporting work, welfare, pensions and child maintenance, The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is Government's largest department. People are at the very heart of what we do. We provide services and support to more than 20 million people every year, ensuring disabled people can live more independent lives; help tackle poverty and homelessness; provide a financial foundation for a secure old age; and support families ensuring children can fulfil their potential. In DWP we are proud of the services we provide and are already transforming our operations to implement the largest welfare reform programme in a generation and to provide better services for the public. And we're learning and adapting all the time. The Department's position in driving economic outcomes is unique and will only be delivered through our people; enabled by a strong, employee-centric HR function. The People and Place Group lead across DWP on all aspects of HR. We do this in support of an organisation that has c85k colleagues working across 980 sites. Our strong focus on team working, strategic influencing and developing professional capability ensures that people working in this function have plenty of opportunities to develop their own networks and career whilst making a real difference in delivering business strategy. People and Place have 5 strategic priorities supporting the wider business strategy. One of those priorities is resourcing and rightsizing the organisation; ensuring we are delivering the right people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right time. The Strategic Workforce Planning Team is one of the teams in Resourcing, Workforce Strategy and Reform and is central to the delivery of both our People and Resourcing Strategy. This high profile role leads on Strategic Workforce planning and Contingent Labour Policy for DWP. The role works closely with the short term Workforce Planning Lead to ensure alignment between strategic and tactical workforce planning activity.. We use our strategic resourcing expertise and insights drawn from across People and Place, wider Civil Service and external organisations to innovate, share best practice and make evidence-based continuous improvement in strategic resourcing. The Strategic Workforce Planning Lead is responsible for working across DWP and with a wide range of stakeholders to enable DWP to have cutting edge frameworks and approaches to its strategic resourcing policies and procedures which are innovative, align with best practice and meet our legal and Civil Service Commission requirements.