Strategic Workforce Planning Lead – Government

Government Recruitment Service; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

The Department for Work and Pensions seeks a Strategic Workforce Planning Lead to steer the five-year workforce plan and Contingent Labour policy. You will translate departmental strategy into resourcing actions, ensuring policy remains compliant and future-ready.

Working with colleagues across the People and Place Group and external partners, you will govern workforce planning and build a high-performing team capable of delivering strategic resourcing insights to support government priorities.

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

The Department for Work and Pensions seeks a Strategic Workforce Planning Lead to steer the five-year workforce plan and Contingent Labour policy. You will translate departmental strategy into resourcing actions, ensuring policy remains compliant and future-ready.

Working with colleagues across the People and Place Group and external partners, you will govern workforce planning and build a high-performing team capable of delivering strategic resourcing insights to support government priorities.