Director of People Services

TristoneNash have partnered with exclusively with Bron Afon Community Housing to appoint a new Director of People Services.

Location: Cwmbran

Hybrid Working: Attending the office one or two days per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: £84,213

Hours/days: 37 hours per week (09:00am to 17:00pm with flexibility)

Extras: Bron Afon operate a four-day working week – meaning you work 80% but are paid 100%, receiving one day off per week, agreed weekly with the Executive Director.

Overview: Bron Afon own and manage over 8,000 homes, supporting 20,000 people. This is a key senior leadership role within the people directorate, giving someone the opportunity to shape Bron Afon’s people agenda, lead cultural change and help drive organisational improvement. Bron Afon are a community-owned social housing organisation with a clear social purpose and a strong commitment to helping communities thrive. Reporting to the Executive Director, you’ll lead HR, learning and development, internal communications and engagement, wellbeing, and EDI. They require a credible senior people leader with strong HR/OD experience, excellent judgement and the ability to lead through change in a complex environment. You would have 4 direct reports, all of whom are at Business Partner level and you would be responsible for a department of 8 staff overall. The financial responsibility includes a revenue budget of circa £1m.

Your duties in this role would include:

• Leading the strategic/operational delivery of the People Services portfolio, including HR, L&D, Internal Communications & Engagement, Wellbeing, and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI).
• Ensuring these services align with Bron Afon’s values, and support cultural transformation, you’ll play a key role in driving agile ways of working and delivering a corporate strategy.
• Positioning Bron Afon to attract, recruit, develop and retain talented people.
• Leading the development and delivery of People, L&D, EDI and Internal Communications strategies, ensuring a proactive, modern and technologically enabled approach to people management.
• Ensuring the alignment of resources, systems and people to deliver high-quality, professional support to the business.
• Contributing to the overall leadership, direction and success of Bron Afon, helping create an inclusive, engaged and high-performing organisation.
• Leading on the development of Total Reward and recognition systems that balance market and internal equity and are aligned with Bron Afon’s cultural direction of travel.
• Developing HR analytics to provide ongoing insight into employee behaviour and other characteristics to inform decision making; ensuring that all people-related data is managed professionally.

Essential requirements for this role:

• Experience at Director level within HR/People previously, or experience at ‘Head of’ level coupled with 5+ years within the social housing sector.
• CIPD Level 7 qualification

Benefits Package:

• Highly competitive salary + 4-day working week
• A 32 days annual leave entitlement + 3 additional days around Christmas/New Years
• Defined Contribution Social Housing Pension Scheme with employer contributions of 12%
• Bupa Cash back plan, investment learning and development, funding of professional memberships, cycle scheme, GP helpline, Wider Wallet discount voucher scheme and more

If this position is of interest to you and feel you possess the required skills set, please apply via this advert and we will get in contact with you.

Due to volume of applications, if you’ve not heard from us within 36 hours, please assume that you’ve been unsuccessful on this occasion. However, will ensure we are running other positions by you in future, and we appreciate your interest.