Culture & Colleague Engagement Manager

About Us:

Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing has a vision that "everyone has a home and the opportunity to live well"; that means working with partners to create sustainable and vibrant neighbourhoods where our customers want to live. With 57,000 homes and more than 120,000 residents and customers, we have a real opportunity to make that vision a reality. Our people care, dare, and collaborate to ensure we achieve this People Powered Living.

This role:

Title: Culture & Colleague Engagement Manager

Salary: London: GBP50,589 - GBP53,251

Beeston: GBP45, 530 - GBP47,926

Location: London, Farringdon or Nottingham, Beeston

Hybrid: 3 days office, 2 days home working

Job type: 12-month fixed-term contract/secondment

Interview Dates: 6th & 7th February 2024

We are looking for an exceptional person to cover a 12-month fixed-term contract/secondment for our Culture and Colleague Engagement Manager post. Your key responsibilities will involve developing, implementing, and embedding an inclusive customer and colleague-focused culture, that is aligned to our values. In addition, you will also support and report to the Assistant Director of People & OD on the design and implementation of MTVH's culture development, Colleague Engagement, well-being, and colleague recognition initiatives.

Travel to MTVH's various offices will be required frequently.

What you'll need to succeed:

• Strong knowledge of employee engagement and cultural change - essential
• Proven experience in developing and implementing culture change projects and demonstrating improvement in Colleague Engagement -essential
• Ability to analyse and interpret data to provide solutions - essential
• Excellent influencing and interpersonal skills with people at all levels, internally and externally.
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills
• Effective Project Management skills with ability to set and work to deadlines -essential

Please note :- we do not currently offer visa sponsorship.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits include:-

• 28 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time) per year
• 2 volunteering days per year for things like helping out in local communities
• An additional 'Beliefs day' once a year to have an extra a day off
• Enhanced pension with matched contributions of up to 9%
• Life assurance cover 3 x your salary
• Health cash plan scheme for your everyday healthcare needs which you can add your family members too
• Tenancy deposit - interest free loan to help with rental deposits
• Access to extensive learning and training opportunities with Wisebox platform
• Colleague virtual social platform with our workplace pages where you can keep up to date with the organisational activity and link in with colleagues
• Career progression across the organisation with our mentoring programme and apprenticeships
• We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and support this as an organisation

About us

Learn more about our benefits and organisation by viewing our attached document

Our promise

Here at Metropolitan Thames Valley Housing (MTVH) we want to capture the value that difference brings and are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We work collaboratively 'Serving people better every day' to educate, support and develop all of our diverse employees and the communities that we serve.

We want every employee and every customer to feel comfortable enough to be their true self and are working tirelessly in the background to create an environment that encourages our employees to challenge non-inclusive behaviours and to be mindful of their own and other's wellbeing.

Our core values of Dare, Care and Collaborate demonstrate that we are a people focused business, solving social issues by working together!

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if a suitable candidate is found so we do encourage you to complete the application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.