UK Home Office
Deputy Director, Reward and People Policies
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Deputy Director, Reward and People Policies
Job grade: SCS Pay Band 1
Various locations: Croydon, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Sheffield
Salary: £86,000 - £96,000
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
About the Role
The Deputy Director for Reward and People Policies is an important senior leadership role within Home Office HR, accountable for:
- Shaping a modernised reward offer
- Delivering simple, actionable user guidance for our workforce underpinned by a robust policy framework
- Improving the effectiveness of our performance management systems
- Maintaining constructive and collaborative employee relations
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director of People Operations, you will provide strategic leadership and end-to-end accountability for Reward, Policy & Guidance, Performance and Employee Relations across the Home Office. You will work closely with Directors General and across the HR function to shape departmental strategy, deliver significant reforms, and lead delivery at scale.
As a highly visible and influential senior leader, you will work with colleagues at the most senior levels to drive change across a complex and operationally critical organisation. You will bring strategic judgement, political awareness, and strong delivery grip, and balance competing priorities while leading complex change at pace across a large and operationally critical organisation.
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Requirements
The successful candidate will need to demonstrate:
- Success in developing and implementing strategic reward, policy, performance, or employee relations interventions across large complex unionised workforces, translating organisational strategy into measurable outcomes.
- Demonstrable success leading major organisational change programmes, balancing pace, risk, governance, and stakeholder management in highly scrutinised environments.
- Strong strategic and analytical capability, with experience using workforce data, forecasting, and insight to influence executive decision-making and shape organisational strategy.
- Exceptional stakeholder leadership skills, with a proven ability to influence at Executive Committee level and build alignment across senior leaders, corporate functions, external partners, and Trades Unions.
- Experience advising senior leaders on high impact, large scale, and complex HR issues, often within politically sensitive and high-profile contexts.
- An accomplished and visible people leader, with a track record of building high-performing teams, leading through ambiguity, and delivering sustained change.
- Chartered Fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD) or a willingness to work towards accreditation.
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Additional Information
If you’re interested in learning more, we will be hosting a Town Hall event for prospective candidates on Monday 13 July 12:00 - 12:30.
Whilst this is an optional event, all candidates are encouraged to join the panel to gain an insight into the role(s).
You can join this event by registering at Candidate Information Session - Please see Candidate Pack for further information. The link to this is embedded in the full Job Advert.
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