Location
Croydon

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£96,000 per annum

About the Role
The Deputy Director for Workforce Strategy and Change is a pivotal senior leadership role within Home Office HR, accountable for shaping the department’s future workforce and ensuring it has the capacity, capability and organisational agility required to deliver ministerial priorities and respond to an increasingly complex operating environment.

Reporting to the Director of People Transformation, you will lead the development and delivery of the department’s workforce strategy, providing strategic oversight of workforce planning, organisational design, workforce analytics and workforce change. Working closely with the Executive Committee and senior leaders, you will ensure workforce decisions are aligned to departmental strategy, transformation ambitions and fiscal priorities.

This role is central to delivering the Home Office's ambitions through the Future Home Office transformation programme. You will drive a fundamental shift in how the department plans, deploys and evolves its workforce, translating organisational priorities into a clear, evidence-led workforce strategy that delivers sustainable organisational performance, improved productivity and long-term workforce resilience.

You will lead some of the department's most significant and high-profile workforce challenges, including strategic workforce planning, organisational redesign and workforce restructuring, influencing decisions with substantial operational, financial and reputational implications.

As a highly visible senior leader, you will operate confidently in an environment subject to significant Permanent Secretary and Executive Committee scrutiny. You will bring strategic judgement, political awareness and strong delivery grip, balancing competing priorities while leading complex change at pace across a large and operationally critical organisation.

Experience
Significant experience developing and implementing strategic workforce planning approaches, translating organisational strategy into actionable workforce plans and measurable outcomes.
Demonstrable success leading major organisational design and workforce change programmes, balancing pace, risk, governance and stakeholder management in highly scrutinised environments.
Strong strategic and analytical capability, with experience using workforce data, forecasting and insight to influence executive decision-making and shape organisational strategy.
Exceptional stakeholder leadership skills, with a proven ability to influence at Executive Committee level and build alignment across senior leaders, corporate functions and external partners.
Experience advising senior leaders on complex workforce, transformation and organisational effectiveness issues, often within politically sensitive and high-profile contexts.

About you
An accomplished and visible people leader, with a track record of building high-performing teams, leading through ambiguity and delivering sustained change.
Strategic judgement, political awareness and strong delivery focus.
Ability to operate confidently under significant scrutiny and balance competing priorities.

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