Spencer Clarke Group are working closely alongside Waltham Forest Council to provide them a with a Interim Director of People and OD (Remote Working) join their team on a Contract Basis!

** Full Time to start ASAP (6 Month ongoing) **

Rate – £481 to £600 per day – (negotiable dependent upon experience) 

Your Role;

We are looking for an experienced senior leader who can provide strategic leadership on all areas of HR and OD, with a particular focus on delivering the Council’s new workforce strategy and organisational change following on from the COVID crisis. Initial engagement for six months. The successful candidate will be responsible for

• Designing and delivering significant programmes of work in order for us to meet the aims of our ambitious new workforce strategy
• Leading a process of organisational change that will allow the Council to reset following COVID and deliver the Councils Public Service Strategy
• Driving through our workplace EDI agenda and Deliver the priorities in our ethnicity and gender pay gap strategies
• Ensure that all members of staff benefit from new ways of working when the Council move into their new offices in Fellowship Square
• Manage the Council’s small HR team (from June/July) The Council’s HR team is very small so the successful candidate will need to work collegiately to provide leadership across the Council, and to commission and create partnerships which can deliver our strategy.

Essentials

• Must have experience of similar roles, but not necessarily of working in the public sector.
• Must be able to demonstrate successful delivery of whole organisational change delivered in innovative and cost effective ways.
• Track record of delivering real change rooted in the language of our staff.
• Practical, delivery focussed leader able to conceptualise change but ensure that it is delivered using agile and outcome focussed technique
• Demonstrate that they have delivered sustained change that made a significant difference to the working lives of managers, employees and organisations.