Hampshire Cultural Trust
Director of People
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Level: 1
Salary: £70,000 FTE
Location: Chilcomb House, Winchester
Hours: 37 hours per week. We are willing to consider applications for part-time working (80%) and hybrid working across Hampshire.
Type of Contract: Permanent
Change Lives Through Culture by Leading our Most Valuable Asset – Our People
Hampshire Cultural Trust runs 20 museums, galleries and arts centres across the county, caring for 2.5 million historic objects and welcoming over 750k visitors a year. But we are far more than our buildings and collections. We use culture to genuinely improve people’s lives through social impact programmes, community partnerships, work with children and young people, and experiences that improve health and wellbeing. We are an independent charity with regional scale, a bold 2030 growth strategy, and a simple but powerful purpose: to change lives through culture.
With our Make your Mark employer brand and our HCT 2030 strategy now established, we need an exceptional Director of People and Culture to lead our most important asset - our people. You will work at the heart of our executive team, helping 170 employees and +500 volunteers thrive, grow and make their mark.
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A bit about you
You will:
- Shape Strategy: Align our people strategy with HCT 2030 – supporting social impact, commercial growth and fundraising ambitions in equal measure
- Empower Leaders: Coach senior executives and managers to build resilient, customer centric, high performing teams
- Drive Experience: Develop our full talent lifecycle, from onboarding, continuous engagement and personal development and continue to build our employer brand
- Nurture Well-Being: Safeguard employee mental health, manage balanced workloads, and ensure a fulfilling work environment
- Deliver Basic Building Blocks of HR: Ensure legal compliance and robust governance of our policies and standard operating practices, balancing this with the continued development our employee and volunteer ‘offer’
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We need a:
- Strategic Leader: Proven success managing HR at a senior or director level within complex, customer-facing or charitable sector, able to be an active participant in our executive leadership team and Trustee board
- Commercially Minded: Comfortable blending mission-led, charitable values with agile, commercial growth strategies
- Inspirational Communicator: Exceptional relationship builder skilled at collaborating with executives, trustees, and diverse frontline staff
- Culture Builder: Expert in talent development and employee engagement
- Subject Matter Expert: In HR, learning and development, and staff engagement
Ready to Make your Mark?
If you want to find out more, you can view our 2030 strategy at [HCT 2030 | Hampshire Cultural Trust](HCT 2030 | Hampshire Cultural Trust) and explore details of working for the Hampshire Culture Trust at [Work for us | Hampshire Cultural Trust](Work for us | Hampshire Cultural Trust).
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