HR Deputy Director - Immigration Enforcement

HR Deputy Director - Immigration Enforcement

Location:

Liverpool with frequent travel to other UK Home Office Hub locations A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% Job grade: SCS Pay Band 1 Job summary

Immigration Enforcement (IE) is one of the Home Office’s highest profile operational commands, working in fast paced, complex and politically sensitive environments. With a workforce of around 6,800 colleagues, strong, strategic, people focused leadership is essential to delivering modern, high performing services that earn public trust.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer and leading a team of 12, you will be the senior people leader to the Director General for IE and their Executive Committee . You will shape IE’s people strategy, champion culture and capability, and lead organisational design and workforce transformation across one of the department’s most demanding operational areas.

• Act as the Director General’s primary HR adviser, shaping decisions on workforce, culture and talent.
• Provide clear, evidence-based insight and challenge, enabling confident decision making at pace.

• Develop and deliver workforce, capability, organisational development and talent strategies aligned to IE’s operational priorities and the wider Home Office strategy.
• Use data, insight and modelling to anticipate future workforce needs and build sustainable long-term solutions.

• Build leadership capability at all levels, strengthening performance, accountability, inclusion and engagement.
• Champion the Home Office values Compassionate, Respectful, Courageous and Collaborative, and support delivery of the Future Home Office ambition.

• Provide strong, visible leadership to a team of around 12, creating a culture of professionalism, collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Partner across the wider HR function to influence and shape corporate HR services so they are designed around the current and future needs of Immigration Enforcement.
• Identify and embed best practice across organisational design, talent management, succession planning, workforce planning and performance management.
• Work with the HR Deputy Director for Border Force to improve alignment, consistency and efficiency across the operational HR system.

• Play an active role in the HR Directorate’s senior leadership community and the wider Home Office corporate leadership agenda.
• Lead cross departmental initiatives relating to Civil Service professions, capability and talent pipelines.