Executive Director - People, Culture and Wellbeing

Competitive Salary

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 3 December 2024

Interview date: Wednesday 11 December 2024

Hopwood Hall College is an award-winning, leading further education institution located in Greater Manchester, dedicated to providing high-quality education and training. With a strong commitment to inclusivity, innovation and excellence, we strive to create a supportive and dynamic learning environment that empowers our students to achieve their full potential.

We are seeking an experienced Executive Director for People, Culture and Wellbeing to join our senior leadership team. The successful candidate will provide inspirational leadership, development and direction across the college. You will focus on HR leadership for employees, safeguarding for students, and lead strategies for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion, and wellbeing. We seek a collaborative individual to work with leaders, staff, students and stakeholders, ensuring our culture aligns with our vision and values, delivering our strategic intentions and making our college an amazing place to learn and work.

We have appointed FE Associates to support us with this important appointment. Prior to submitting an application, interested parties are advised to arrange an initial conversation with our recruitment partner, by emailing Suzanne.Thurlow@fea.co.uk, to discuss the role before the closing date.

Dear colleague,

Executive Director - People, Culture and Wellbeing

Many thanks for considering an application for the post of Executive Director for People, Culture and Wellbeing at Hopwood Hall College & University Centre.

Due to the recent promotion of our current postholder we are now looking to recruit a high-performing Human Resource specialist to join our Senior Leadership Team to help lead our College into its next phase. The successful candidate will be someone with the drive, experience and ambition to continue to help grow and improve our College from the strong position that has been created and maintained over a number of years.

Our College is a vibrant community providing a wide range of high-quality education and training to learners in the Borough of Rochdale and beyond. We continually strive to ensure that all learners achieve their individual, educational and employment goals, whilst meeting the skills needs of the region.

Over a sustained period of time we have maintained high standards whilst continuing to achieve a financial health rating of outstanding. Our Ofsted inspection of April 2023 confirmed our self-assessment rating of ‘Good’ and strong in skills.

We are an award-winning College, most recently a Queens Anniversary Prize for widening participation and we have huge ambitions to continue to provide amazing opportunities for our students and our community. We live and breathe our vision and values and are well on the way in delivering our strategic intentions.

The role of Executive Director for People, Culture and Wellbeing
Our new Executive Director will provide inspirational leadership, development and direction across the College. The postholder’s specific focus will be on our people, both being the senior HR lead for our employees and the safeguarding lead for our students. The Executive Director will also be leading the strategy for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and Health and Wellbeing across our College community. We are looking for a collaborative individual who will work with leaders, staff, students and stakeholders across the organisation ensuring our culture is aligned to our vision and values, delivers our strategic intentions and our College is an amazing place to learn and work.

In order to succeed in this role our new Executive Director will have the breadth and depth of senior experience in the people profession to make a significant contribution to our organisation. You will have a clear sense of safeguarding and lead on EDI. Given the focus of our values on students, staff and the community, you will be a visible and outwardly focused leader who enjoys building positive relationships with a range of stakeholders.

Yours sincerely

Julia Heap
Principal & Chief Executive

If you have the very special qualities and the passion to make a real a difference to the future of our students and business, then we would like to hear from you.

Please complete the registration form below to access the candidate information pack, application form and the equality and diversity form.

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We have appointed FE Associates to help us find the right person.  Prior to submitting an application, interested parties are advised to arrange an initial conversation with our FE Associates lead consultant, by emailing Suzanne.Thurlow@fea.co.uk to discuss the role before the closing date.

Closing date: 9am on Tuesday 3 December 2024

Interview date: Wednesday 11 December 2024

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