Zoe Hack Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London, Gb

London, Gb

Head of Resourcing, Essex Police & Kent Police November 2015 – To dateWorking across Kent and Essex, my role is to lead on the strategic development and management of recruitment, selection, promotion, talent management, succession planning and resource management for Kent Police and Essex Police ensuring that services are aligned to both forces policing strategies and priorities. My role is also to provide professional HR advice to senior leaders across both forces to ensure we recruit, develop and retain the best talent. I also lead on diversity, inclusion and positive action initiatives to develop a workforce that is representative of the communities both forces serve.

Working as part of the HR senior management team for Essex Police and Kent Police, I am responsible for leading a strategy and diversity team, developing the HR strategy and leading significant HR change, cost reduction and convergence programmes across both forces. I am also responsible for leading and co-ordinating equality & diversity activity from development to implementation, ensuring a managed and responsive approach to corporate aims, objectives and requirements. I also lead on performance management, business planning, risk management and undertaking organisational development reviews of business change programmes.

Working as part of the HR senior management team I was responsible for Operational HR, Talent Management, Recruitment, Organisational Development, Resource & Planning and HR Information Systems in Essex Police. I had responsibility for a team of 50 HR staff within my portfolio and my role was to implement large scale change management exercises to realise the governments savings targets, manage the force strategic workforce plan and deliver an effectively skilled and balanced workforce through recruitment, development, talent management and promotion. My role also encompasses developing new policies and processes in the HR arena in consultation with our Unions and staff association colleagues..

Working as part of the divisional senior management team I was responsible for the effective HR management and deployment of 600 Police Officers and staff. With direct responsibility for a team of 15 staff my key areas of responsibilities were resource management in a 24/7 environment, driving a value adding HR function in a financially focused performance culture, developing and delivering the learning and development strategy for the division, leading on change initiates to refocus the shape of the division, absence and performance management in line with Home Office targets and developing and implementing innovative civilianisation programmes to reinvest Police Officers back to front line roles.

I led the HR workstream as part of £27m change management programme setting up a contact management centre. I was responsible for all aspects of HR as part of the programme this included strategic HR planning of the programme, management and redeployment of 500 geographically based resources to the new centre, recruitment and selection of 200 new staff, HR policy development to enable effective management of the change, Union consultation, organisational and role design and compensation & benefit management.

I led a central HR team and was responsible for providing an HR Management consultancy service for all areas of HR across three operational districts of Essex Police. This included working with the divisional management team and supporting change management initiatives, leading on consultation with employee’s and their Union representatives, managing reward & recognition issues, undertaking employee counselling & advising on welfare issues, coaching managers to manage sickness management effectivly, undertaking grievance handling and investigation, undertaking recruitment & selection, addressing performance management issues, providing employee relations advice to managers and sharing HR best practice across Essex Police.

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