Director of HR

Director of HR

We're looking for a visionary HR leader, someone who thrives on challenges and is ready to help us write Dulwich College's next chapter. This is a really exciting time to be joining Dulwich, not only will you help shape this role, you'll also play a crucial part in shaping the College and our people.

The Role

As our Director of Human Resources, you will modernise, streamline, and help us build a skilled, diverse, and inclusive workforce, with the overall responsibility for developing and delivering the College's People Strategy.

The person

To be considered, you must have a proven track record in HR leadership and membership of a chartered professional body (such as CIPD) at level 7 or above. With this background, you can lead staff through change, deliver complex programmes and people-related initiatives, and provide authentic, inspiring, and visible leadership.

You will have an opportunity to shape the new strategy and will lead its successful delivery, working with the Senior Management Team. The postholder will also be responsible for identifying, developing and implementing innovative people projects that improve employee engagement, organisational performance and effectively support strategic priorities, mission and values.

To succeed, you will have a strong background in providing strategic HR support at a senior level and an understanding of the importance and impact of culture, values, behaviour, and leadership.

In addition, you'll have the communication skills to express yourself clearly, whatever the challenge or task. With your ability to build strong relationships, you'll make connections across the College.

An excellent people manager, you will champion inclusivity, role model our values, and help us deliver change. We employ a wide range of diverse staff groups and are navigating an exciting and challenging period of strategic change; we will be looking for you to bring experience that supports this. An understanding of the independent school sector would be desirable.

What you'll get in return

From us you can expect a warm, friendly welcome and the support you need to be successful in this role.

You will also be generously rewarded with a competitive salary and great benefits, including fee remission, healthcare plan, employee assistance programme, free membership for you and your immediate family at Dulwich Sports Club, free daily lunch, free access to Dulwich Picture Gallery and generous shopping discounts. We also have a competitive company pension scheme, into which we contribute up to 10%.

From the moment you join you have 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, and the days between Christmas and New Year.

How to Apply

If you are excited by what you have read, we would love to hear from you. A candidate pack and details of how to apply can be found here: Staff Vacancies - Contact - Dulwich College

For enquiries about the role please contact Suzanne White on WhiteS1@dulwich.org.uk

To be considered, you must have a proven track record in HR leadership and membership of a chartered professional body (such as CIPD) at level 7 or above. With this background, you can lead staff through change, deliver complex programmes and people-related initiatives, and provide authentic, inspiring, and visible leadership.

You will have an opportunity to shape the new strategy and will lead its successful delivery, working with the Senior Management Team. The postholder will also be responsible for identifying, developing and implementing innovative people projects that improve employee engagement, organisational performance and effectively support strategic priorities, mission and values.

To succeed, you will have a strong background in providing strategic HR support at a senior level and an understanding of the importance and impact of culture, values, behaviour, and leadership.

In addition, you'll have the communication skills to express yourself clearly, whatever the challenge or task. With your ability to build strong relationships, you'll make connections across the College.

An excellent people manager, you will champion inclusivity, role model our values, and help us deliver change. We employ a wide range of diverse staff groups and are navigating an exciting and challenging period of strategic change; we will be looking for you to bring experience that supports this. An understanding of the independent school sector would be desirable.

From us you can expect a warm, friendly welcome and the support you need to be successful in this role.

You will also be generously rewarded with a competitive salary and great benefits, including fee remission, healthcare plan, employee assistance programme, free membership for you and your immediate family at Dulwich Sports Club, free daily lunch, free access to Dulwich Picture Gallery and generous shopping discounts. We also have a competitive company pension scheme, into which we contribute up to 10%.

From the moment you join you have 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, and the days between Christmas and New Year.