People Business Partner - India

Date: 17 Jun 2024 Location: Noida, South Asia, IN Company: British Council
We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.

We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.

Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021-22 we reached 650 million people.

British Council Pay band SMP
Location: Noida, India
Salary: starting at 2,799,525 and can go up to 5,186,111 depending on skills and experience,
Other cash/non-cash benefits include:

• Group Mediclaim policy
• Group term life insurance policy
• Group accident insurance policy
• Gratuity, subject to rules
• Variable pay, subject to annual performance evaluation
• Annual Leave of 21 days, subject to policy
• Free British Council Library membership
• Annual Health Check-up

Department: Human Resources
Contract type: Indefinite Contract
Closing Date: 05th July 2024 at 23:59 UK Time.

Interviews will be held week commencing - 15th and 22nd July.

You must have the legal right to work in India at the time of application. There is no relocation or sponsorship support. British Council supports working in new ways such as hybrid working, subject to full approval by line management and conditional upon our ability to provide the appropriate level of service. This may not be appropriate for all roles but can be explored at interview.


Role purpose
The People Business Partner is a key, senior member of the business leadership team and will contribute to development and delivery of business plans. They will be accountable for working in partnership with business leaders to diagnose, design and deliver the talent and organisation development plans for the business area. Typically, they will work with directors in the larger and more complex parts of the organisation and collaborating with their peers across all teams, will identify new opportunities where talent and organisation development can add value, based on data and business insight.

Key elements of the role include:

• Collaborating with peer groups and the Director of People Business Partnering to develop strategic workforce plans.
• Co-owning delivery of business and strategic workforce plans with the leadership team
• Coaching senior leaders and influencing them to grow and develop talent, promoting a culture of learning and growth.
• Working with peers to identify and build skills for the future.
• Influencing the development of policies, products and initiatives that address future talent and organisational needs.
• Diagnosing the talent & organisational implications of business change and leading strategic organisational re-design, including oversight of implementation
• Work with Organisation Development Team in the delivery of projects, providing direction, coaching, mentoring and suitable challenge to enable delivery.

Role context
The British Council recently completed a significant Transformation programme, with departments at varying stages of implementing new operating models. The business-aligned People Partnering team, part of the Talent & Organisational Development Directorate (T&OD), focuses on developing people and the organization post-transformation. They partner with leadership teams to develop diversity, future skills, capabilities, and ways of working to enhance our global impact. The team also plays a key role in activating our EVP (Employee Value Proposition) and influencing our culture and employee experience.
They have a deep understanding of their business areas and work closely with business leaders, building strong relationships to address key people and organizational opportunities and foster a culture of learning. Their work shapes the Talent, Learning & Performance CoE and influences other CoEs.

Main Accountabilities
Leadership & management

• Partner with senior leaders on talent progression, retention, and organization design alignment with business strategy.
• Set direction for Organization Development Leads and Specialists, enabling project delivery through collaboration and coaching.

Strategy and planning

• Co-create plans with leadership teams to deliver the strategic workforce plan and oversee implementation.
• Provide data and insight for business planning to prioritize people considerations.

Relationship and stakeholder management

• Build and manage relationships with senior leaders, bringing challenge and thought leadership.
• Coach senior leaders to improve relationships and ways of working, fostering One British Council.

Commercial and financial management

• Provide input to the Talent & OD budget to prioritize impact opportunities.

Sector/subject expertise.

• Act as the business partner to senior directors, providing coaching in strategic HR for talent management and organizational development.

Consultancy, analysis, and problem-solving

• Consult with the senior leadership team and use data and insight to solve strategic people-related problems.

Role specific skills
Data Literacy

• Analytics Translation: Translates people data into actionable insights (developing).

Business Acumen

• Context Interpretation: Identifies, interprets, and applies insight into external business trends and organizational factors (developing).
• Customer Understanding: Understands customer needs and applies user-centric principles (developing).
• Strategy Co-creation: Co-creates business strategy and aligns HR priorities (developing)

People Advocacy

• Culture & Wellbeing: Shapes inclusive performance culture prioritizing wellbeing (developing/exemplary).
• Change Navigation: Builds change structures and capacity to promote change and resilience (developing).

Execution Excellence

• Action Orientation: Implements actionable and adaptive plans to achieve results (developing).
• Interpersonal Skills: Achieves shared goals using effective interpersonal skills (developing).

Role specific knowledge and experience
Minimum/essential

• Experience of business transformation and aligning people plans to enable change, including talent and organisational design & development.
• Experience as a member of a business leadership team, in a line or professional services partnering role.
• Experience of strategic business and workforce planning

Desirable

• Experience within a centre of excellence in learning & / or organisational development, talent management, employee engagement or change.
• Experience within a global organisation.
• Experience in an external or internal consulting role.
• Experience in strategic organisation re-design projects.

Please note that we are seeking candidates with a comprehensive background, including talent, organisational development/design and change management.

Language Requirements
The British Council systems and global processes operate in English. Written and verbal proficiency in English is required.

Education
University degree or equivalent professional experience

Professional Qualification and Certification
CIPD or equivalent OD / Change qualification (desirable)

For any questions AskHR@britishcouncil.org

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Equality , Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Statement

The British Council is committed to policies and practices of equality, diversity and inclusion across everything we do. We support all staff to make sure their behaviour is consistent with this commitment. We want to address under representation and encourage applicants from under-represented groups, in particular, but not exclusively, on grounds of ethnicity and disability. All disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria are guaranteed an interview and we have Disability Confident Employer Status. We welcome discussions about specific requirements or adjustments to enable participation and engagement in our work and activities.

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