Snr Manager Talent and Development
Deekay Technical Recruitment
Remote-friendly
Accountability
Excellence
Determination
Simplicity
Empowerment and respect
Working together
Job Purpose
- Reporting to the Assistant Director of People and Inclusion and as part of the senior management team:
- Ensure that Dudley Council attracts, recognizes, develops, and retains talent to deliver excellent services for residents.
- Provide strategic direction on reward, talent, learning, career and leadership development across the Council.
- Identify need and deliver OD interventions to meet that need, including leadership development that creates inspirational leaders, supports transformation and embeds a culture of inclusiveness across Dudley Council.
- Providing strategic advice, guidance and support to the EDI agenda for the workforce, customers and the community.
- Lead on the Council’s wellbeing and EDI strategy and define and continually enhance the council’s employee health and wellbeing offer
- Lead the development of the EDI strategy and develop and implement policies, practices and action plans
- Lead on Talent and Organisational Development projects, both directorate and Council wide, including identification of need through to design, development, implementation and evaluation.
- Ensure the creation and delivery of interventions that demonstrate and encourage a culture of engagement and inclusiveness, helping our people to be the best they can be and ensure accessibility for all colleagues
Specific Responsibilities
- 1. Provide inspirational and constructive leadership and direction to the Talent and Development team to deliver agreed objectives and support the delivery of the Council’s objectives and People Strateg
- 2. Facilitate change and innovation, building a team culture that encourages innovative, efficient, smart and collaborative working
- 3. Establish and sustain effective working relationships with Elected Members, Heads of Service, Senior Managers, and colleagues, providing constructive challenge, professional advice and support to deliver in line with corporate strategy, and influence and motivate others to achieve this.
- 4. Use and translate internal and external intelligence, datum and trends in talent management and assessment and learning and motivation to continually adapt and improve services in line with demand.
- 5. Identify the need for OD/Talent interventions through working predominantly with Chief Officers and Senior Managers and to design, develop and advise on, implement or commission innovative solution
- 6. Through maintaining and demonstrating up-to-date knowledge of developments in the field, provide/commission business focused Talent and Development solutions/interventions which may be new and untried to the CounCIL
- 7. Provide Talent and Development expertise to local and council-wide change projects including the People Strategy to future-proof organisational processes, skills, and behaviour and to maximise business efficiency and effectiveness.
- 8. Ensure the Talent and Development offering compliments business need and transformation and change ambitions across the Counci
- 9. Lead on the development and implementation of aspects of the People Strategy and related projects as directed by the Assistant Director of People & Inclusion.
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