Leading the strategic People agenda for the organisation working with the executive directors and strategic council leaders; leading the Council’s HR and OD Service, supporting the 4000 employees across the organisation, managing a talented team of professionals; working with the executive directors and senior managers to drive change and performance improvement.

Providing effective, impactful strategic HR leadership to the Directors and senior managers;Leading a team of professionals providing key HR services to the organisation, including Recruitment and Resourcing, Employee Relations, Staff Well-being and Equalities;Driving change and successful performance improvement across the challenging people agenda leading key organisational-wide projects including performance management, and hybrid working.

Leading the People agenda, providing effective and impactful strategic leadership and advice on all people related matters to the Directors and their senior teams, including Employee Relations, Staff Wellbeing, and Equalities;Leading and managing a team of dedicated HR professional and administrative staff responsible for providing a professional and customer-focused HR service;Developing and leading on specific people projects to improve engagement and performance including staff engagement surveys and values and behaviours programmes;Developed and implemented the leadership development programme for senior leaders;Implementing a learning management system to support all staff.

Leading on OD for the University, managing the budget and resources, ensuring the provision of an effective, customer-focused OD service to support transformational change across the organisation;Supporting the Deans, Directors and senior managers across the University, providing strategic and operational OD and HR expertise to drive continuous improvement;Driving the development of a transformational leadership change programme across the University, through the development of bespoke workshops, development sessions, and coaching;Leading on Equalities for the University;Managing specific key projects including the employee engagement survey, and IIP re-assessment.

Senior role as HR and Learning & Development (L&D) lead for the business group, taking responsibility for ensuring HR and L&D operate effectively and support performance excellence and continuous improvement;Writing and implementing the people plan, in line with the business plan and corporate strategies, to ensure effective management and development of all staff to meet business objectives;Identifying learning and development needs through training needs analysis linked to the annual appraisal process, and through regular discussions with managers regarding emerging skills gaps;Developing and delivering in-house L&D solutions to maximise staff performance, including developing and running training sessions utilising internal resource, facilitating workshops and coaching managers;Procuring and managing external training providers to provide additional L&D activities where the knowledge is not available in-house, always considering value for money and return on investment;Interpreting results from the annual staff survey (‘Best Companies’) and translating them into actions to build team engagement and improve performance;Proactively supporting the corporate HR agenda through specific HR project work, including development of effective recruitment and selection processes, development of effective diversity and equalities policies, and development of an organisation wide competency framework;Direct and matrix management of teams of professional staff carrying out complex, challenging audit work across the Scottish public sector, producing high quality reports published on behalf of the Accounts Commission and the Auditor General for Scotland

Senior OD role heading up the performance management function, reporting to the Directors with regular requirement to work at CEO and Board level;Developed and implemented the performance management strategy across the organisation (multiple sites), managing the budget and resources, developing scorecards of performance measures across the organisation; Designed and delivered training and development packages, workshops and presentations to train all levels of staff, from Board to front line;Supported managers with training sessions and one-to-one coaching to develop management skills;Developed and implemented performance review systems, both formal and informal processes, and trained and developed people managers across the organisation in their use.