Schools and Commercial Manager

Schools and Commercial Manager

(Human Resources and Organisational Development)

Up to £63k

You are a Hounslow leader, with a responsibility to embrace and lead change; be outcome-focussed; and put Hounslow residents at the very heart of everything we do and every decision we take. You will live and breathe our values and behaviours.  Your professional accountability is to develop and deliver a first class, modern, and inventive people business partnering function across our schools’ community, and to grow this business in order that the Council has the capacity to offer outstanding HR and OD services to the commercial and voluntary sector.  A member of the extended HR and OD leadership team and the Hounslow leadership community, you will help to shape and deliver the organisational development plan and contribute to the practical implementation of our #1 Hounslow transformation programme. As a corporate citizen and 21^st century Hounslow public servant, you will implement strategic and operational projects that will explicitly benefit Hounslow residents. You will go beyond your professional discipline and work across boundaries, within the organisation and beyond.

The top 5 things about you that are most important:

You will bring significant experience of senior business partnering within schools and across complex services, with experience from a number of sectors, ideally. 

You will have expert knowledge of best practice people management and development, and you value thought leadership, looking beyond your organisation to identify the very best strategic and operational people approaches.

Your commercial awareness and business/marketing acumen is highly developed, and you can tailor HR & OD services appropriately to market and deliver a first rate offer to widely ranging organisations with disparate needs.

You know how to communicate, expertly and you can demonstrate your ability to develop excellent relationships with senior leaders, showing how you have implemented with them strategic and tactical solutions to people management and development challenges and opportunities.

You will have guided and contributed to the delivery of transformational change.

To apply, please send a CV or one-page career history outline to Hounslow.Recruitment@liberata.com with a supporting statement setting out how you could be the individual best suited to this role based on the criteria we are looking for.

Closing Date: 30 November 2020

Interviews: Will be held in the week commencing 14 December 2020