Overview

About UnLtd

UnLtd is the leading provider of support to social entrepreneurs in the UK and offers the largest such network in the world. Our mission is to find social entrepreneurs with bold solutions to today’s challenges. Through funding and support, we help them to realise their potential and creating lasting change. 
 
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About the role

Social entrepreneur support is the heart and soul of UnLtd: we are all about realising human potential in service of social progress. Our values are to be brave, inclusive and accountable. Our support offer spans personal development, organisational development and market development. Our operating principles are to foster impact, inclusion, collaboration, learning and organisational health. 

We are now elevating our thinking and practice about people and culture to match our mission, values, strategy, support offer and operating principles. We will bring the same energy, investment and focus on people and organisational development to ourselves as we do to our social entrepreneur support. 

We have created this Director of People and Culture role to lead this change with the CEO, board and executive team. You will put inclusive leadership at the heart of the organisation and foster a culture of belonging and aspiration. Our Breaking Down Barriers strategy requires us to find, fund and support the most impactful social entrepreneurs, while dismantling the barriers they face. To succeed, we need to drive sector change on equity and inclusion rooted in our own practice.

You’ll bring a strategic perspective while relishing a hands-on HR role in a fast-paced environment. You will have full accountability for the performance of People and Culture at UnLtd including our employee value proposition, our EDIB ambitions and action plan, our workforce planning, and the development and management of our HR team. 

You will be a highly inclusive, excellent people leader, engaging, coaching and inspiring a hybrid nationwide team of diverse and talented folk. You will create and nurture an inclusive culture and environment. You will build a programme and ethos of progression and continuous learning. You will foster outstanding employee engagement, reward and wellbeing to make us an employer of choice. 

Our commitment to EDI is core to this role. You will define, deliver and report on our EDIB ambitions. 

Please see the Job Description attached for more information.

Interested? Here’s how to apply

We need to know a bit about you, your experience and what you can bring to UnLtd.

You can submit a CV + supporting statement (up to 2 pages). We’d love you to tell us: 

•    About you – your skills, experience and personal qualities; 
•    Why you’re interested in the role and what you hope to get out of it.

The main thing is you can demonstrate you have skills and experience (Lived or learned) that relate to what we have said we are looking for.

We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities, Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQIA and from different socio-economic and educational backgrounds.

• Application Closing Date:  Midnight on Monday 19th February 2024
• First round of interviews:   Tuesday 27th or Wednesday 28th February 2024 (online, via MS Teams)
• Final interviews:                 Tuesday 5th March 2024 (online, via MS Teams)

UnLtd is committed to offering employment opportunities for people with criminal convictions. As a result, we will only ask you about any criminal convictions at initial offer stage. Your information will be treated fairly and confidentially and will not automatically exclude you from the role that you have applied for.

Find out more about our generous range of employment benefits by clicking on the link below: 
https://www.unltd.org.uk/about-us/careers