People & Culture Director

Role Summary

The People Director will lead on shaping the strategic People Plan and delivering the people aspects of The Old Vic’s strategic objectives and mission. They will play an integral role in ensuring we have a culture that supports and inspires all who work with us and engage with us. They will be accountable for ensuring a smooth employee lifecycle, attracting diverse talent, engaging and growing our teams to ultimately deliver great theatre. The role will lead on ensuring our systems and structures are set up to support leadership and management to empower their teams and run efficiently.

Essential

• Level 7 CIPD Qualified or qualified by experience/practice.
• Demonstrable experience of establishing credibility and influencing senior leaders, building strong commercial relationships and delivering projects against a People Strategy.
• Experience managing a team and developing strengths.
• Experience of managing complex employee relations, change and restructuring and managing these to positive outcomes.
• Experience leading change / transformation programmes
• Excellent knowledge of HR systems and experience of driving improvements
• Strong commercial acumen and pragmatic, common sense approach
• Numerate and able to manage financial and employee data to support managers in resource planning and preparing reports to the Board
• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and an ability to create clear and concise communications
• Experience of working in a collaborative and solution-focused manner to achieve win-win outcomes; ability to effectively plan ahead to anticipate problems
• Resilient and able to work to deadlines and adapt to changing conditions
• Demonstrable integrity and confidentiality when dealing with sensitive matters
• Knowledgeable about all aspects of employment law and people best practice in the UK
• Excellent attention to detail.