Director Of People & Culture

Overview of Responsibilities

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 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.