Head of People | We Made That | London
Location | London
Salary guide | £40,750-48,000 per annum (plus company benefits)
Hours| 37.5 per week (but open to flexibility for the ideal candidate)
Closing date | 30th June 2022
Are you a people-centred HR professional with experience in growing high performing teams?
We Made That is at a pivotal point in our evolution and expect our team to grow in the coming year as we expand our impact and influence, alongside cementing our focus as a B Corporation. This means that recruiting and onboarding talented people is a key organisational focus for us and ensuring we retain and continue to develop and support our existing team.
We are seeking a dynamic, experienced culture champion to develop a people strategy and implement its successful delivery within our highly motivated team of architects, urban designers, researchers and wider support staff. This is a new role and you will have scope to work with others and with the assistance of the wider support team.
Responsibilities and tasks
The ideal candidate for the new Head of People position will lead the development and implementation of a new people strategy that supports the practice in achieving its vision, mission and impact goals. You will support the professional development and well-being of the whole team and work with us to develop a well-defined, people-focused company culture.
You will balance acting as an advisor to the senior leadership team with rolling up your sleeves and executing solutions, with responsibilities including resource planning, recruitment and retention, performance management and professional development to ensure a diverse team with the right number of people, with the right skills, in the right place, at the right level and at the right cost as we grow. To achieve this, we expect the ideal candidate will:
Develop and deliver an approach to measuring, understanding and continually improving team engagement, satisfaction and effectiveness
Ensure our approaches to recruitment, selection, onboarding of new team members and team member development are thorough and robust as we grow
Support coaching, mentoring and peer review
Develop reward and recognition strategies in alignment with the vision and values of the practice
Optimise our existing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy and take proactive action to ensure the practice fosters a genuinely inclusive culture
Support the senior leadership team to better understand, manage and predict the capacity in their teams and stay ahead of their recruitment needs using the tools available, or proposing new ones
Help us improve and monitor productivity across the practice
Support the delivery and optimisation of our wellbeing offer and other initiatives
Identify and implement effective HR and recruitment systems, data and compliance
Ensure people policies, procedures and contracts are up to date, aligned with organisational need, values and in line with current legislation
Represent the practice to external parties
Competencies, skills and experience
The ideal candidate will have the skills to optimise processes across the employee life cycle including hiring, training, professional development, well-being and performance management to ensure these efforts support the practice’s growth and bottom line in an impact-driven and people-centred way.
Essential:
A keen eye and passion for talent, and how to attract it into a business
A focus on and appreciation of equality, diversity and inclusion
Ability to build authentic relationships across a diverse group of stakeholders
Excellent communicator on all levels with demonstrated empathy and strong interpersonal skills
Excellent command of spoken and written English
An ambition and propensity to help shape a growing practice
Understanding environmental and social performance aspects of our work Demonstrable project management and problem-solving skills
Desired:
+5 years experience in People and HR roles
HR professional qualification
Experience with recruitment and HR systems
Leading People and Culture project implementation
Developing a positive performance culture
Commitment to ongoing learning and personal development
Benefits
On top of a competitive salary, we offer staff a wide range of benefits: hybrid working options, flexible working hours policy, pension and enhanced parental leave provision, profit share, paid professional memberships, training opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, and an interest-free TfL season ticket loan.
Our growing internal wellbeing and activities programme includes social events and field trips, as well as wider support.
Equal opportunities
Candidates must be eligible to work in the UK and would ideally be available to start in July 2022. We Made That is London Living Wage accredited, an equal opportunities employer and supporter of the Mayor’s Fund for London Diversity Pledge.
How to apply
Please send a digital copy of your CV to jobs@wemadethat.co.uk (max 10MB) along with a covering letter outlining how you meet the criteria. Mark the subject line with ‘Head of People’. Pay will be commensurate with experience and we would request that you set out your pay expectations in the covering letter.
Deadline
Deadline for applications is 30.06.2022.
About We Made That
We create equitable places through incisive research and impactful projects. We work exclusively for the public sector and charities and are committed to delivering public good. Our multi-disciplinary team delivers urban research, strategies and masterplans, and public spaces and buildings.
Together, we provide considered and thorough intelligence, shape healthy, fair and well-designed places and bring life and value to the built environment. We are driven by making better places for all.
We Made That was established in 2006, and became a Certified B Corporation in 2021 with a new legal accountability to balance profit and purpose. We deliver projects across the UK from offices in London and Manchester.
