The Roles

Assistant Director of Equity & Justice

£80,531 - £96,364 p.a.
Location: London

Be part of our mission to become a Borough of Equity and Justice

We’ve set ourselves a bold mission. We want to make Lambeth a Borough of Equity and Justice.

This is a borough of diversity, connectivity, full of excitement and opportunity. We have long been the home to radicals and reformers, entrepreneurs and innovators – people who worked together to help change the lives of others and their own.

Our history has been uniquely shaped by this activism – creating a welcoming borough with social justice at its core. We are the home of the Windrush Generation and have the largest LGBTQ+ community in London. We are a borough of sanctuary, providing safe havens for those who need it most. Over 150 languages are spoken in our diverse borough, with growing Spanish, Portuguese and South American communities. It is this rich combination of difference that makes Lambeth such a special and exciting place to live and work.

We have many strengths to build on but we are committed to going further, driving change for our community and our workforce. Being a borough of equity and justice is the golden thread that runs through our Lambeth 2030 Borough Plan. It’s a bold, shared vision for Lambeth with social and climate justice at its heart.

Our new Assistant Director for Equity and Justice will lead on tackling racism and discrimination as it manifests across our borough and for our workforce. You’ll be working as part of a new Community Partnerships Unit also dedicated to tackling poverty and working with our thriving community sector to make Lambeth a fairer and more equitable borough.

In short, you’ll lead on developing our delivery approach, drawing together colleagues and partners across the Council and the borough. Working with the Chief Executive, senior leaders, and the Leader and Cabinet, you’ll develop, deliver and implement key programmes that have a tangible impact on changing experiences and outcomes across Lambeth. You will focus both on the community, working with residents, community groups and partners to develop new ways of closing inequality gaps, and on our workforce, helping to improve diversity, competence and progression for our workforce. Whatever the challenge you will approach it through establishing strong relationships and using the latest research intelligence and insights.

You will have a proven track record of creating change and improving outcomes at scale, developing strategies, using data, working in partnership and across organisational boundaries and developing high-performing delivery-focused teams. Your knowledge and understanding of equity and justice and the issues facing a diverse borough like Lambeth will be second to none. We’ll also be looking for inspirational corporate leadership, a determination to deliver, a collaborative approach that recognises the work that has gone before you and experience of delivering impact in a large, complex organisation.

If you share our energy, values, and ambition, join us as we embark on our most exciting chapter yet and help us write history for the next generation.

To have a confidential discussion, please contact our retained Penna Consultants: Carol Coyle on 07500 887849 or email: carol.coyle@penna.com, Rachael Morris on 07840 711217 or email: rachael.morris@penna.com

Closing date for applications: 9^th August 2024

Assistant Director Resourcing and Operations
SMG2, £80,521 - £96,364

You could impact the whole of Lambeth from here

Together with our partners, local organisations and residents, we’ve created Lambeth 2030. It’s a bold, shared vision for Lambeth with real ambitions that will help us deliver sustainable change. Resourcing and Operations will have a key part to play. From resourcing to operations, it’s the engine room of HR services to customers, and where you’ll be able to make a measurable difference.

Focused on a great customer experience, you’ll know how to bring values to life in an organisation via HR. As part of the HR and OD management team you will provide leadership and direction for developing and delivering a recruitment service and operations function that truly shines.

This role is at the heart of our workplace transformation — which focuses on getting the basics right, understanding the moments that matter and enabling everyone to perform brilliantly.

Whether you’re collaborating with stakeholders to identify HR priorities, defining business delivery requirements or handling comprehensive financial analyses, you’ll bring every bit of your experience to bear on this wide-ranging role.

You’ll have a good knowledge best practice in customer service operations and recruitment, backed by a keen understanding of how to build buy-in and commitment to change. You’ll be determined to support staff and teams across a wide range of HR services too. In addition, you will be commercially savvy and understand how employment law impacts on your services.

If we match your energy, values and ambitions, join us as we embark on our most exciting chapter yet and help us write history for the next generation.

For a confidential discussion, please contact our retained Penna consultants at: Priyesh Bhadressa on 07548 108176 or email priyesh.bhadressa@penna.com or Rachael Morris on 07840 711217 or email: rachael.morris@penna.com  

Closing date for applications: 9^th August 2024

Assistant Director of Corporate Delivery
Salary - £80,521 - £96,364
London

Be the catalyst for meaningful transformation

Together with our partners, local organisations and residents, we’ve created Lambeth 2030. It’s a bold, shared vision for Lambeth with real ambitions that will help us deliver sustainable change. Now we need an Assistant Director of Corporate Delivery to help us make exciting transformation happen. It’s a whole new role – and if you’re passionate about making big change happen, you’ll thrive on the challenge.

Lambeth 2030 sets out an ambitious programme of change for our Borough; making our neighbourhoods fit for the future, making Lambeth one of the safest Boroughs in London, ensuring Lambeth is a place we can all call home and becoming a Borough of Equity and Justice.

Lambeth, like all other Local Authorities, faces unprecedented challenges in terms of rising demand for its services, more complex needs and, significant financial pressure. Delivering our ambition requires changes to the way in which we work –thinking about new ways to address complex, system wide problems- and support to ensure the success of our corporate priorities.

Our new Corporate Delivery Unit is at the heart of the council and will be the key to driving that change – working with services, senior leaders, residents and partners to make tangible progress on these key ambitions. You’ll lead the council’s drive to change, improve and develop its services and culture so that the ambitions, commitments and aspirations set out in the Lambeth 2030 plan can be realised.

You’ll start by bringing our transformation professionals together so they’re ready to make a difference. In effect, you will be the glue, creating a cohesive team that can work on short, medium and long-term programmes. Together, you’ll deliver the Council’s approach to transformation, while retaining a relentless focus on customers and their experience with Lambeth.

To galvanise change across the council, you must be confident and capable in your role. You’ll bring experience in public sector change (consultancy or client side), leading positive outcomes for residents. Your expertise will include in-depth knowledge of project management and delivering service improvements. Underpinning this knowledge will be a professional qualification and strong analytical skills.

You’ll have experience of leading change in complex organisations or areas of public policy, be collaborative, commercially astute and an experienced leader of teams and programmes.

If we match your energy, values and ambitions, join us as we embark on our most exciting chapter yet and help us write history for the next generation.

To have a confidential discussion, please contact our retained Penna Consultants: Carol Coyle on 07500 887849 or email: carol.coyle@penna.com, Rachael Morris on 07840 711217 or email: rachael.morris@penna.com

Closing date for applications: Friday 9^th August 2024

Strategic Business Partners
PO9, £69,258 - £73,818

Be the link between the business and the business of HR

Together with our partners, local organisations and residents, we’ve created Lambeth 2030. It’s a bold, shared vision for Lambeth with real ambitions that will help us deliver sustainable change. And you’ll be key to that — not only by taking on one of our most senior HR roles but also as a vital connection between our diverse directorates and our HR and OD service.

Reporting to the Director of HR & OD, you’ll also sit on the management team for your directorate where you will influence and direct the whole of HR to meet business needs.

We have an ambitious culture change programme which emphasises the importance of people’s roles in enhancing the lives of our residents. Each one is at the heart of our workplace transformation which focuses on getting the basics right and understanding the moments that matter to performing at your best.

You’ll work in partnership with leaders, key stakeholders and HR colleagues to deliver HR plans and solutions in line with the needs and priorities of the council. You’ll be seen as the departmental HR and OD expert, advising and guiding managers and staff, and providing high-level people management and development support across directorates.

You will need a good knowledge of employment legislation and HR best practice, and of HR Management including workforce planning and skills development. Your solid understanding of talent management processes will be essential, and you’ll be able to draw on proven HR Business Partner experience. You’ll also bring us a data-driven approach to decision making backed by skills in change management and organisational development, plus implementing change at pace.

Where you will really stand out is through building great relationships with directors across the organisation as well as within HR and OD. You’ll look at the big picture of HR and OD requirements to prioritise and source solutions, and drawn on your talent for explaining complex problems and issues. A real collaborator, you’ll be deeply connected to your own values and how you can actualise them in the workplace.

If we match your energy, values and ambitions, join us as we embark on our most exciting chapter yet and help us write history for the next generation.

For a confidential discussion, please contact: Delina Teklehaymanot on 07752 791 517 or email Delina.Teklehaymanot@penna.com

Closing date for applications: 9^th August 2024

Employee Relations Specialist
PO8, £63,582 - £68,136

Do you value trades unions like we do?

Together with our partners, local organisations and residents, we’ve created Lambeth 2030. It’s a bold, shared vision for Lambeth with real ambitions that will help us deliver sustainable change. Achievements outside the organisation start with achievements within. As our Employee Relations Specialist, you’ll look to build trusting relationships with employees including trades unions.

As someone who understands business requirements and trade unionised environments, you’ll provide expert advice to the Council on employee relations matters so that staff are engaged and managed according to our policies and procedures.

We have an ambitious culture change programme which emphasises the importance of people’s roles in enhancing the lives of our residents. Each one is at the heart of our workplace transformation which focuses on getting the basics right and understanding the moments that matter to performing at your best.

You’ll act as our employee relations specialist, developing strategies and interventions that ensure positive, constructive and respectful relationships between trades unions, employee representatives and managers and the council. You’ll also create tools and templates to support these relationships. In addition, you’ll stay on top of relevant employment law in relation to employee relations, training managers where needed.

You should have a proven track record of fostering positive relationships with trade unions and other representatives. You may have been a trade union representative yourself, or worked in a unionized environment. You’ll also have advanced knowledge of employment legislation and statutory codes, which will help you understand changes to Lambeth strategy and their likely legal implications.

Lastly, your background in a trade unionised workplace will be key, and you’ll be credible and trustworthy in building relationships even when goals may not be aligned.

If we match your energy, values and ambitions, join us as we embark on our most exciting chapter yet and help us write history for the next generation.

For a confidential discussion, please contact our retained Penna consultants at: Mandy Dhillon on 07543306303 or email Mandy.Dhillon@penna.com

Closing date for applications: 9^th August 2024