Location
Croydon

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£96,000 per annum

About the Role
The Deputy Director for Organisational Capability is a pivotal senior leadership role within Home Office HR, accountable for ensuring the department has the capability, leadership, talent and culture required to deliver its priorities today and in the future. Reporting to the Director of HR Transformation, you will provide strategic leadership and end-to-end accountability for capability, talent and organisational development across the Home Office. You will set the vision, shape departmental strategy and lead delivery at scale, ensuring the organisation has the skills, leadership and behaviours needed to meet future challenges.

This role is central to delivering the Home Office's ambitions through the Future Home Office transformation programme. You will lead a step change in organisational capability, designing and delivering evidence-led interventions across learning, leadership, talent, culture, organisational development, equality, diversity and wellbeing. Through this, you will strengthen organisational performance, build workforce resilience and enable the successful delivery of departmental objectives.

As a highly visible and influential senior leader, you will work with colleagues at the most senior levels to drive change across a complex and operationally critical organisation. You will bring strategic insight, sound judgement and a relentless focus on outcomes, sustaining pace and impact across a broad and high-profile portfolio.

Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development and delivery of the Home Office’s organisational capability strategy, spanning learning, talent, leadership, organisational development, culture, equality, diversity and wellbeing.
- Shape the department’s future workforce capability, translating strategic priorities into evidence-led interventions that build the capability, leadership and culture needed to deliver departmental objectives.
- Drive a step change in organisational performance through the design and delivery of high-impact capability programmes, ensuring investment is targeted, scalable and delivers measurable outcomes.
- Lead the integration of diversity, inclusion and wellbeing into the department’s organisational capability agenda, ensuring they drive workforce performance, employee experience and long-term organisational effectiveness.
- Lead the organisational development and culture agenda, embedding high-performance and adaptive ways of working across a complex and changing organisation.
- Lead the department’s talent, succession and leadership agenda, from early careers and apprenticeships through to senior leadership pipelines, ensuring a sustainable flow of diverse talent for critical roles now and in the future.
- Build and influence relationships at the most senior levels, across government and with external partners, to strengthen capability outcomes, drive collaboration and secure value for money.
- Play a leading role in the Future Home Office transformation programme and the HR Senior Leadership Team, shaping the department’s wider transformation and organisational effectiveness agenda.

Benefits
Alongside your salary of £86,000, Home Office contributes £24,914 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.
Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Experience
- Proven track record of leading large-scale organisational transformation and delivering strategic capability interventions that strengthen organisational effectiveness, build workforce capability and improve readiness for future challenges.
- Strong analytical and strategic capability, with experience using data, evidence and insight to identify priorities, target investment and evaluate impact.
- Exceptional stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior decision-makers and translate organisational priorities into clear, deliverable capability strategies.
- Strong commercial expertise, including holding suppliers and delivery partners to account for quality, impact and value for money.
- Accomplished and visible people leader, with a track record of building high-performing teams and leading through ambiguity, complexity and change.

About you
You will be a strategic and influential senior leader with sound judgement and a relentless focus on outcomes. You will be able to work collaboratively at the most senior levels across government and external partners to drive change in a complex and operationally critical organisation.

Qualifications
Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD), or a willingness to work towards accreditation.