Head of People and Culture

This role will support Kinship to operate as an effective charity by ensuring effective day-to-day operations and seamless delivery of the People function at the charity.

You will bring your People leadership experience, attention to detail and excellent communication skills to the role. You will be structured in your approach to ensure that day-to-day issues are handled while also working to improve processes and systems. You will be credible with senior management and able to articulate and balance the trade-offs of a People leadership role.

You will be able to balance multiple competing priorities and prioritise effectively, A positive mindset is key to being part of the team, as is thinking creatively to problem solve and being empathetic to colleagues. You will be highly motivated by our mission, recognising that excellent internal People processes are essential to allowing others to effectively complete their roles and achieve our mission.

You will be a powerful ambassador for our mission, credible with other HR and CSR professionals working to implement kinship friendly employer policies and processes.

• Work with the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Executive management team to design, develop and embed a high-quality HR function to support the employee life cycle.
• Responsible for ensuring all policies, procedures, and processes relating to people and culture, work effectively, efficiently and in line with legal requirements.
• Responsible for all People matters, ensuring they are handled fairly and consistently in line with policies and procedures.
• Support and advise line managers on People, EDI and change management activities, including promotions, disciplinary, capability and grievance procedures.
• Organise line manager training to ensure line managers understand their responsibilities and apply policies consistently.
• Responsible for the candidates’ recruitment experience. Ensure candidates receive a consistent and professional recruitment experience.
• Responsible for job descriptions, person specifications, recruitment packs and job adverts.
• Ensure offboarding processes are robust and implemented consistently to safeguard the charity’s assets and to comply with Data Protection rules.
• Lead on the delivery and growth of the ‘Kinship Friendly Employers’ scheme, driving growth in the scheme and the number of bronze, silver and gold partners
• Ensure Kinship role models ‘Kinship Friendly’ employment practices and seek opportunities to share these as examples with other HR professionals.
• Support fundraising efforts with corporate supporters who are ‘Kinship Friendly Employers’.

Knowledge, abilities, skills and experience:

Essential

The successful candidate will have: 

• HR qualification or significant demonstrable experience.
• Coaching qualification or significant demonstrable experience.
• Demonstrable experience of supporting the development of a high-quality People function within a growing organisation.
• Demonstrable experience working in a changing and flexible organisation.
• Demonstrable problem-solving and conflict resolution abilities.
• Demonstrable knowledge of best practices, employment laws, and regulations.
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills – a genuine team player able to relate to a wide range of people.
• Ability to work on own initiative and manage own workload.
• Demonstrable experience of EDI principles.

• Personal experience of kinship care.
• Experience of working in a dynamic and fast-changing workplace.
• Exceptional business-partnering skills