Director of HR,
Membership &
Corporate Services
Up to £62,325*
*plus 2019 2% pay award
Director of HR,
Membership &
Corporate Services
Up to £62,325*
*plus 2019 2% pay award
Welcome from the Chief Executive
I need a Leadership Team to work alongside me and our stakeholders to help shape that vision and translate it into clear delivery plans, working closely with our membership organisations.
During my first 90 days in the organisation, as a team we have refreshed our WME values and I am looking for someone who is excited by those and whose own values are aligned with them – in the words of #TeamWME we are a small team, but we want do spectacular things – do you?
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join a new team, in a newly created role, Director of HR, Membership and Corporate Services and if this excites you, please read on to find out more.
Rebecca Davis
Chief Executive, West Midlands Employers
About WME
West Midlands Employers (WME) is the Regional Employers Organisation offering a range of services aimed at local councils and the wider public sector to support performance improvement at both an individual and organisational level. We are all about ‘people and leadership solutions’ helping our diverse client base to make the best use of their greatest resource – their people.
We are a small team of highly experienced individuals striving to provide a responsive and flexible service. Our services are framed around the employee life cycle and organisational journey, from providing ‘advisory, representative and coordinating roles as an employers organisation’ through to a wide range of consultancy support and commercially focused products and services spanning many aspects of HR, OD and Leadership. We are committed to continuing to develop our role as a shared services provider through expanding our WMJobs ‘end to end’ e-recruitment systems aiming to get the right people in the right place, in reduced time and at a reduced cost; and the WM Coaching & Mentoring Pool which provides cost effective and high quality support in the continuous development of management and leadership capacity across the sector.
To learn more about WME please click on the below buttons.
Another aspect of WME are our annual conferences. Our inaugural Love Your HR Conference, was a huge success with around 200 delegates attending and a fantastic speaker line up including international HR thought leader Dave Ulrich. The conference, along with the Love Your HR blog (the blog that started it all), was created to give HR a face lift and showcase exactly what there is to love about HR, whilst challenging perceptions and helping the public sector write its own blue print for reform.
Our video library below will give you a flavour of our past conference’s and what we do.
Dave Ulrich – Talking about his keynote at the Loveyourhr Conference on “Where can HR add value?”
Working at WME
West Midlands Employers (WME) is the Regional Employers Organisation offering a range of services aimed at local councils and the wider public sector to support performance improvement at both an individual and organisational level. We are all about ‘people and leadership solutions’ helping our diverse client base to make the best use of their greatest resource – their people.
Earlier this year, we reviewed our values so that they mean something to us and we use them every day – they are shortened to ‘I Heart’ and we use that phrase every day, if our values excite you, then you could be the right person to help lead our services forward.
We are a small team of highly experienced individuals striving to provide a responsive and flexible service. Our services are framed around the employee life cycle and organisational journey, from providing ‘advisory, representative and coordinating roles as an employers organisation’ through to a wide range of Consultancy support and commercially focused products and services spanning many aspects of HR, OD and Leadership. We are committed to continuing to develop our role as a shared services provider through expanding our WMJobs ‘end to end’ e-recruitment systems aiming to get the right people in the right place, in reduced time and at reduced cost; and the WM Coaching & Mentoring Pool which provides cost effective and high quality support in the continuous development of management and leadership capacity across the sector.
To learn more about WME please click on the below buttons.
With a unique culture and supportive team, working at WME is the perfect place for an individual looking to lead an innovative and successful group of people. Here you will find staff who are not afraid to work outside of the realms of their job description and work collaboratively across departments to ensure we continue to deliver our high quality services.
To ensure our staff perform to their highest potential, continue to develop communication and team working skills (and have fun along the way), our annual WME Team Away Days are something our employees look forward to and are a great opportunity to come together to reemphasise the WME core values and principles.
Our offices may be based in Sandwell but don’t think that’s where you will always be! You will often find yourself in any one part of the wonderful West Midlands as we have such a diverse range of clients across the region (and beyond so we hope you like to travel!). As you know, WME hold numerous conferences and events so you will find yourself working in our most popular venues The ICC, Aston Villa Football Club and Birmingham Library.
The Role
Working at WME is full of potential, you will have the ability to shape the role and the services we deliver, you will need to be flexible as no day is ever the same, you need to be someone who is happy to have many plates spinning and their fingers in a lot of pies! You need to be prepared to genuinely ‘get stuck in’ at times and deliver new things.
I’m looking for a experienced HR professional, ideally someone who has experience of working in both private and public sectors and as an internal or external consultant. The successful individual will need to offer advice and guidance on a range of highly sensitive and technical areas, ranging from Chief Officer terms and conditions, organisational design, reward and remuneration, job evaluation and able to carry out sensitive investigations and offer advice to political leaders.
You will be part of the WME Leadership Team and present reports to our Elected Member Management Board, you will be expected to contribute to the strategic direction and growth of the organisation, generating ideas for new services and converting these into services and products. A large focus of Autumn 2019 will be on us re-shaping our ‘core membership offer’ it’s a great opportunity to shape this and then you will then be responsible for making sure all organisations get maximum benefit from being members of us.
Coupled with balancing your Strategic Leadership role, you will also be required to deliver high level consultancy support, achieve financial income targets and to advise local authorities on sensitive areas of work – you need to be skilled and confident in all three.
Another unique part of the role is that you will be responsible for building and enhancing our associate consultancy service, with over 40 associate consultants to maximise our income earning potential and our corporate services, marketing, communications, administrative and executive support.
It’s a big role and we need a skilled collaborator, to join us on this journey #TeamWME
Click here to download the Job Description & Person Specification
Selection process
The closing date for the role is Tuesday 23rd July at midnight.
A full day Assessment Centre will be held on Thursday 1st August 2019 in Central Birmingham
Final panel interviews will take place on Wednesday 7th August 2019 in Central Birmingham
For an informal discussion on the role, please contact Rebecca Davis, Chief Executive – r.davis@wmemployers.org.uk
If you have a planned holiday for either of these days and would be unable to attend, please do set this out in your covering letter.
Application process
Please upload you most recent CV that sets out your relevant experience against the role profile.
Please also submit a covering letter, telling us about what you would bring to #TeamWME as Director of HR, Membership and Corporate Services.