Key responsibilities and achievements:• Strong reputation as a transformational business partner to Digital leaders,supporting business change and people development.• Expert lead on IR35 and Digital resourcing, supporting and challenging Digitalworkforce demands and decisions to support the Digital Strategic Workforce Plan.• Worked collaboratively with Senior HRBPs and HR expert leads tosupport Digital leadership, wellbeing and performance.• Supported and managed a team of HRBPs, building personal capability through acoaching approach.• Acted as a deputy for the Digital HR Director.

Key achievements and responsibilities:• Acted as a trusted and credible advisor on people strategies for the DWP Security function, supporting senior stakeholders in delivering complex organisational change amidst wider challenges. • Worked collaboratively with the Security SLT to support business and people priorities through interventions around resourcing, talent management, wellbeing, pay and reward and learning and development. • Acted as the DWP Digital HR lead on diversity and inclusion, using MI and working with HR strategy and the business to support initiatives to improve diversity. • Acted as the HR lead for DWP and its 7 cluster partners within the cross Civil Service Transforming Government Security Programme, working with the Cabinet Office to develop the future capability requirements and exploring the pay and workforce plans. • Collaborated with HRBP and workforce planning colleagues to design and develop a HR dashboard for Digital Executive Team to support the Digital people agenda.

Responsibilities:Lead on Pay & Reward Strategy for DCMS including designing and delivering pay awards for Senior Civil Servants and delegated grades and setting and manage pay and reward budgets.Manage relationships with departmental trade union representatives, leading negotiations and consultation on policy and departmental changes.Lead reviews, communication and development of HR policies.Provide a centre of expertise on pay and reward to DCMS and its 44 Arms Length Bodies, including supporting staff exits and business cases to Cabinet Office and HM Treasury.Lead on delivery of the Staff Remuneration Report and other sections for the Annual Resource and Accounts. Lead organisational diversity and wellbeing agenda, collaborating with staff networks and championing inclusivity.Lead development of the organisational strategic workforce plan, identifying workforce risks and mitigations.Produce MI and staff data analysis internal people data dashboards.Line management of 3 staff and member of HR senior management team.HR lead for 2017 General Election

Responsibilities:Providing strategic HR support and critical challenge to key stakeholders (Governors and probation cluster Heads) to develop and deliver effective people strategies in line with policy.Developing and implementing strategic workforce planning arrangements to support recruitment, retention and talent management.Supporting effective attendance management through proactive interventions to support wellbeing in partnership with occupational health services, managers and health and safety colleagues. Developing and supporting activity to increase employee engagement. Building capability in staff through training interventions and facilitating tailored workshops. Responsible for ensuring that all HR aspects of major business change are effectively managed and communicated. Key Achievements:Reviewed and redesigned the absence management processes at HMP Coldingley leading to a reduction in average working days lost from 15 to 10 days in 12 months and a 48% increase in the number of unsatisfactory attendance warnings being actioned. Created a strategic people plan for HMP ColdingleyDeveloped and launched a student placement programme in partnership with the University of Greenwich and Greater London prisons.Created an innovative workforce planning strategy for HMP Isis to support recruitment and retention challenges.Built successful and effective relationships with challenging key stakeholders.Increased the HMP Isis People survey completion rate by 12% from 52% to 64% which was by far the highest in the Greater London region.Planned and delivered two successful staff wellbeing days to support attendance and stress management.

Responsibilities:Talent and line management of generalist Fast Streamers based across Civil Service departments. Sourcing and selecting secondments from the private, wider public and third sector for Civil Service graduates.Coaching a portfolio of graduatesPartnering with business areas to meet resourcing and capability needs.Preparing high quality written briefings for senior leaders Leading and supporting on a range of complex talent management projects.Key Achievements:Led on the sourcing and matching of 230 secondments to the private, wider public and third sector for Civil Service graduates. Also lead on an interchange pilot for external graduates from the private and public sector to work in the Civil Service. Responsible for the line management of 23 members of staff, 22 Generalist Fast Streamers and 1 Fast Track Apprentice.Led on the design and delivery of a large scale charity project for Civil Service graduates which was successful in raising over £73,000 and supporting 17 charities over 6 months.Led on the design, planning and delivery of two residential induction weeks for over 500 new Fast Streamers. Partnered Ofsted to meet their resourcing and capability needs by sourcing and matching stretching Fast Stream placements. Designed and developed a cross governmental newsletter for Fast Streamers.Developed a new defence graduate scheme option, collaborated with departments to design the structure of the programme and worked with key stakeholders to create an application process, programme guidance and and series of assessment stages. Entrusted with high degree of autonomy and a broad portfolio following consistent strong performance and an ability to learn quickly and work collaboratively.