Director Of People & Culture

Director of People & Culture
Abingdon Rd, Culham, UK
Full-time
Salary: £95,000 - £110,000 + excellent benefits including outstanding pension
Division: People Division
Site Location: UKAEA Culham, Oxfordshire
Confirmed Grade: Level 8
Department: People & Culture
Company Description
By 2050, the planet could be using twice as much electricity compared to today. Are you interested in contributing and helping to shape the future of the world’s energy? If so, read on.
Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and Stars, is one of the most promising options for generating the cleaner, carbon-free energy that our world badly needs.
UKAEA leads the way in realising fusion energy, partnering with industry and research for groundbreaking advancements. Our goal is to bring fusion electricity to the grid, supported by tomorrow's power stations. In pursuit of our mission, UKAEA embraces core values: Innovative, Committed, Trusted, and Collaborative.
As an employee of UKAEA you will benefit from:
- Outstanding defined benefit pension scheme, details of which can be found at the end of this advert.
- Corporate bonus scheme up to 15% and a Relocation allowance (if eligible).
- Flexible working options including family friendly policies and the right to request flexible working from the start of your employment.
- Employee Assistance Programme and trained Mental Health First Aiders.
- Generous annual leave allowance starting with 25 days, plus 3 days Christmas closure and 2.5 privilege days, in addition to UK bank holidays.
- Wide range of career development opportunities.
- A vibrant culture committed to equality and being fully inclusive.
The salary for this role is £95,000 - £110,000.
Job Description
Please submit a cover letter as part of your application.
This role can be based at the following site; Culham, Oxfordshire.
This role requires employees to complete an online Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), including The Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks for criminal convictions.
The Role
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to make a difference? Join our team and contribute to the future of fusion energy. As Director of People & Culture, you will play a pivotal role in shaping UKAEA’s strategic goals and providing vision and inspiration on a range of organisational initiatives. You will lead the People and Culture function, ensuring it is agile and digitally enabled, whilst fostering a culture of end user ‘personal ownership’.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Act as the CEO’s principal advisor on people, organisational, cultural and policy matters.
- Lead transformational change in People and Culture, ensuring it is fit for purpose, digitally enabled, and agile.
- Support the generation of UK Industrial Fusion Solutions (UKIFS), a separate legal and fiducial entity that will operate as part of UKAEA Group.
- As a member of the Executive Committee (ExCo), partner with executive leaders to identify future organisational changes and develop strategies to support them.
- Attend UKAEA Board meetings to advise on people issues, organisational design, and change management.
- Work with the Head of Pay and Reward to implement a new pay and reward framework.
- Lead on the management of complex organisational structural and cultural change.
- Deliver strategic workforce planning to build UKAEA’s capability to deliver Fusion.
- Review and update the People Strategy to meet UKAEA's evolving needs.
- Lead a positive culture of employee relations and engagement.
- Champion an EDI strategy, ensuring UKAEA becomes an inclusive and diverse organisation.
Qualifications
Essential Requirements:
- Chartered Fellow/fully qualified member of CIPD or equivalent relevant professional qualification.
- Proven experience in directing transformational change at the executive level.
- Strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.
- Commercial awareness and experience managing outsourced people services.
- Strong operational delivery focus.
- In-depth knowledge of employment law and employee relations.
- Demonstrated emotional intelligence and successful people management experience.
Additional Information
For a full list of benefits and to apply, select the apply button to be taken through to the UKAEA careers pages.
We welcome applications from under-represented groups, particularly individuals from black and other ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities, and women. Our Executive team, supported by our 'Equality, Diversity and Inclusion' (EDI) Partner and Inclusion Ambassadors, actively promotes EDI and takes steps to increase diversity within our organization. We reinforce best practices in recruitment and selection and evaluate approaches to remove barriers to success.
Please note that vacancies are generally advertised for 4 weeks but may close earlier if we receive a large number of applications