Strategic Workforce Planning Lead

Salary: £360 – £420 per day

Our client, who is based within the public sector, has a requirement for a Strategic Workforce Planning Lead on a 3 month temporary basis with possibility of extension for 18 months.
The hours of work will be 37 per day with a pay rate of £360 – £420per day. The client is based in Edinburgh, however the role is home working currently.

Job Purpose:
To enable the client to specify its future workforce requirements and to plan the transitions required to optimise capacity and skills within the workforce to achieve our Corporate Plan 2021-25.

Main duties and responsibilities:
Phase 1:
Assess readiness for comprehensive strategic workforce planning activity within the organisation, considering the inputs required from directorates and functions to inform a 4-year strategic workforce plan.
Produce a gap analysis that illuminates areas of ambiguity (for example in strategic intent or confidence in delivery of key business milestones or absence of people data) that would affect the integrity of a strategic workforce planning exercise.Phase 2:
Support directorates and their functions to articulate the required changes in their workforces over a 4-year period.
Apply workforce planning methodology to create a strategic workforce plan based on the roadmaps for our functions and aligning to the overall intent of our Corporate Plan 2021-2025, illuminating any dependencies, critical decisions and risks.Phase 3:
Co-ordinate a plan of action to support workforce transition over the planning period; including interventions in policy, governance routines, hiring practices and skills development.
Essential Criteria:
Member of the CIPD
Masters degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline
Evidence of current and relevant CPD
Experience of applying strategic workforce planning methodology across a large workforce
Evidence of adding measurable value to organisations through strategic workforce planning methods
Evidence of effectively working within governance frameworks and using project management methodology
Ability to manage complexity and articulate risks, dependencies and critical decision points
Excellent grasp of people metrics and expertise with people data analytics