Job Introduction

Job Title:  Culture & Employee Engagement Consultant

Salary Banding:  £48,000 - £60,300

Job Location:  Birchwood, Warrington

Contact Duration:  Fixed Term Contract for 2 years

Hours (weekly):  35, Monday to Friday

Do you enjoy and leading a business through a period of positive Cultural Change?

Are you passionate about designing, improving and implementing Employee Engagement projects?

There’s a lot of great things happening at Your Housing Group (YHG). Our internal environment is evolving, and we are currently undergoing a significant period of transformational change, from the launch of a digital platform for our customers, through to the birth of a new Business Transformation & Change engine within the company.

To continue with this evolution, we are now looking to undertake a wide range of culture & employee engagement change projects that will positively impact both our business and our people. Due to this, we are looking for an innovative, driven and engaging Culture & Employee Engagement Consultant to shape this change and to drive and deliver these transformational projects.

What does success look like?

You will work with our teams to ensure we embrace a culture of digital, customer focused solutions and helping us move towards a High-Performance culture.

• Capable of solving complex organisational challenges through people-related solutions. Able to think big, use data to guide your work, be comfortable challenging convention, and in some cases reinvent how work is done.
• Proven in designing and continuously evolving new ways to assess potential, skills and values, giving a memorable candidate experience aligned to our EVP and culture
• Proven in playing your part in designing and developing a strong, creative, employer brand message that curates an exciting and inspiring story
• Competent in defining inspiring internal communication channels, messages and events to engage our colleagues
• Instrumental in developing a positive employee experience that surprises, delights and amazes colleagues, enabling them to bring their best self to work everyday
• Able to work with leaders to deliver a performance culture, designing solutions that are sustainable and measurable
• Enhance and measure alignment to our values to ensure they run through the lifecycle of the colleague journey
• Confident building strong brand advocates and excellence in leadership

What skills, experience and behaviours will you need to succeed?

• Extensive experience in effectively driving people and culture across a diverse and complex organisation that is geographically spread across the North West region
• A collaborative, inspiring and influential change agent
• Personal gravitas and influence at all levels
• Cultural transformational experience is essential
• Commercially focussed with the ability to work at pace
• Strong leadership
• Passionate about people

In our model, the Culture & Employee Engagement Consultant builds strong people management skills with the leadership team and has the necessary credibility to take a diverse range of stakeholders on the journey of change. Authentic, compelling and credible, the Culture & Employee Engagement Consultant will help shape a culture of collaboration, empowerment, ambition, innovation and fast-paced change.

In return, we offer a generous package comprising of a salary of £48,000 – £60,300 plus car allowance of 9/10% - Contributory pension (matched to 8%), Private medical insurance (BUPA), Health benefits cash scheme, 26 days holiday plus all bank holidays and AGILE working. The project lifecycle for this change will be approximately 2 years, therefore this role will initially be offered as a 2-year fixed term contract. However, there is ample opportunity for this position to lead to further involvement within the Change and Transformation engine within YHG.

Your Housing Group is a new generation of housing provider, working efficiently and effectively to build as many quality houses as possible, thereby playing its part in solving the national housing crisis. With over 28,300 homes across the North West, Yorkshire and the Midlands, the business has a large portfolio of retirement living developments and an innovative private rental offer in Nuvu.

Prior to completing your application, please review the attached Role Profile to better understand the role and key responsibilities.   

Closing date:      27^th November 2018     

Should we receive a high number of applications, we may close this vacancy earlier than the date indicated above

Your Housing Group values diversity and encourages applications from all communities. Your Housing Group operates a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for tenants or anyone who resides in a Your Housing Group property.  It also operates the scheme for any applicants who declare they have a disability. Those applicants who meet the minimum requirements for the role as set out in the role profile will be guaranteed an interview.  Some roles may be subject to probity checks which will override the scheme where a potential conflict of interest or a probity matter has been identified. 

Your Housing Group