Head of People

*This post is open to female applicants only as being female is deemed to be a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9, Paragraph 1 of the Equality Act 2010.

 Stop Domestic Abuse is a trauma informed organisation, the work we do to support those effected by domestic abuse may be triggering for those with past trauma. Please only apply if you are living free from abuse. If you’d like to talk to us about this, please get in touch.

Salary: £46,570 - £51,005

Location: Havant

Hours: 37

Contract : Permanent

Job Reference Number: STOPDA718

Main purpose and scope of the job:

Stop Domestic Abuse’s Head of People will play a pivotal role in shaping and driving our people strategy, ensuring Stop Domestic Abuse remains a supportive, inclusive, and high-performing organisation. You will lead on all aspects of the organisation's human resources and Volunteer & Routes to Employment functions. This includes recruitment, retention, learning and development, talent and performance management, organisational change, well-being and employee relations.  Your work will be instrumental in fostering a culture that reflects our values and enhances our ability to deliver impactful services to those in need.

The Head of People plays a crucial role in maintaining, shaping and implementing all HR policies ensuring compliance and legal obligations are met in order to achieve key organisational deliverables and objectives whilst maintaining high standards. While ensuring compliance with all HR legal requirements, our decisions are guided by and aligned with the core values of our organisation, fostering a workplace culture that reflects our mission and principles.

This role works collaboratively across the organisation to identify initiatives that support employee well-being, adding to the overall employee value proposition and staff satisfaction. Forming and nurturing relationships with external well-being providers to ensure staff needs are met as well as creating innovative ways of listening to staff voice.

This is a hands-on role in terms of employee relations and system/process development and is supported by a People Partner and two HR Assistants.

Please click on links below to download an application pack.

Please note there is no closing date for this post, we will keep the vacancy open until we have successfully appointed to the role. Once your application has been reviewed we will contact you to let you know if you have been shortlisted for an interview.

We particularly welcome applicants from BAMER communities that are currently under-represented in our organisation.

Appointment will be on merit alone.

We will recruit the first suitable applicants, so apply early as we may close applications earlier.

An enhanced DBS (Disclosure Barring Service) disclosure will be required for this role.