Role Description

The HR and Estates Director has overall responsibility for the provision of HR and Estates Management services to DVLA.

They are a key member of both DVLA’s Executive Team and Agency Board, having a strong understanding of the Agency’s strategic objectives and their people and estate implications, providing professional advice on HR and estates matters to inform decisions. The role holder provides leadership to the organisation to ensure operational delivery and DVLA’s transformation agenda are supported by a high performing workforce and an enabling estate.

Key responsibilities

The HR and Estates Director will be responsible for:

• acting as a corporate leader to the whole organisation. As a key member of the Executive Team and Agency Board, the HR and Estates Director will be fully involved in the decision making and directional activities of Boards
• developing and implementing the DVLA people strategy for its 6,000 people to drive the people and cultural change required to adapt to the transformation of DVLA’s services, wider government strategy and the wider changing world of work
• driving a high performing culture and continuing DVLA’s journey to create an inclusive culture that is congruent with a modern digital organisation and the high standards and values expected of the Civil Service
• building a strong talent pipeline, proactively managing our internal talent and recruiting and retaining great people with the skills and capability we need for the future
• developing DVLA’s workforce strategy, producing strategic workforce plans and overseeing the implementation of the people change required
• to meet those plans
• being a member of the DfT group HR model, supporting the strategy to work closely together on cross departmental people matters and sharing best practice
• developing the DVLA Estates strategy to align with strategic workforce plans and government’s property strategy
• developing and implementing modern policies and procedures across the HR, estates and health and safety functions which comply with the law, assuring that they are followed correctly and rigorously managing risk
• providing strategic advice to business areas on all people and estates matters
• monitoring and reporting on a range of people and estates performance indicators
• leading on the delivery of estates services via third party providers and delivering our sustainability objectives including the achievement of the Greening Government Commitments
• delivering the physical security service to DVLA sites overseeing the business continuity management
• overseeing the business continuity management framework