Chief Operating Officer

Croydon, London Our mission is fundamentally important: to keep our borders secure and our citizens safe. Each and every member of Home Office staff plays a part in making that happen. We lead on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime policy, counter-extremism and counter-terrorism and work to ensure visible, responsive and accountable policing in the UK. Within HR we are working through an ongoing transformational change programme to improve the effectiveness of our service delivery and maximise value to our internal customers. This new position will help to develop our resources and capacity to continue our continuous improvement journey. The HR team that you would be joining is a friendly common sense pragmatic, proactive group focused on growing nimble and high value professional services and advice. Youll need to match their ambition and energy as the remit you will be working across will be challenging, but the rewards in terms of professional satisfaction are immense. Deputising for our Chief People Officer, you will be responsible for developing clear work programmes, and ensuring that the HR team is focused on understanding and delivering the services that our leaders, managers and employees need. You will drive efforts to evolve our recruitment and learning processes, and develop HR expertise across the team, delivering a client-focused shared service model that helps maintain and improve the quality of the Home Office workforce. As an experienced HR leader, with a proven track record of managing large scale HR services, you will understand the nuances of delivering services to individual internal customers. You should be a progressive thinker, with the breadth of HR expertise to help us identify opportunities to strengthen the team and develop our capabilities. For further details about this role, please visit www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe36164. For an informal, confidential discussion, please contact our advising consultants Michael Dobson on 0207 426 3960 or Adam Davidson on 020 7426 3964 at GatenbySanderson Closing date for applications: Monday 6 November 2017 As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons. As we are committed to the principles of the Race Equality Charter Mark, we would particularly welcome applications from the black and minority ethnic (BAME) community, who are currently under-represented at this level. All appointments will be made on merit.