About the role

  • Director of People for Access Education Group shaping people strategy across diverse education sectors. Partnering with leadership to enhance people practices and support teams for success.

Responsibilities

  • Partnering closely with the CEO and senior leaders to shape and deliver a clear, people-centred strategy
  • Leading the development of people systems, workflows and policies that are fit for purpose and easy to use
  • Ensuring safeguarding and safer recruitment practices are robust, consistent and trusted
  • Supporting leaders to manage performance with confidence, fairness and humanity
  • Improving onboarding so new colleagues feel welcomed, supported and set up for success
  • Strengthening communication, engagement and retention across a dispersed workforce
  • Leading and developing a small people team so they can focus on proactive, high-quality support

Requirements

  • You’ll be a communicative, independent and emotionally resilient leader, comfortable working at pace in a role that will continue to evolve.
  • You’ll thrive in complex, multi-site environments and bring calm judgement, credibility and a practical mindset to everything you do.
  • You’ll have the confidence to influence at the highest level, balanced with the empathy to support people doing demanding, meaningful work.
  • Experience in education, training or similarly regulated sectors is a strong advantage, as is experience improving HR systems and workflows.
  • Above all, you’ll believe in the link between well-supported colleagues and great outcomes for learners.
  • You will hold CIPD Level 5 or above, or equivalent.

Benefits

  • 10% on target bonus depending on Group and Personal performance, details will be shared upon start
  • 35 days annual leave plus UK bank holidays
  • Hybrid working
  • Employee discounts through internal benefits platform
  • Health Cash Plan through Westfield Health
  • Doctorline GP Service
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Enhanced Maternity, Paternity benefits and Sick Pay
  • Auto Enrolment Pension Scheme
  • **DBS Checks:** This post is subject to Enhanced DBS clearance. Employment cannot commence until satisfactory Enhanced DBS clearance, and all required references have been received and verified.

Job title

Director of People

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

£100,000 - £110,000 per year

Degree requirement

Professional Certificate

Location requirements

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