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The Duke of Edinburgh's Award

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1956

🤲 Charity

📚 Education

Charity • Education

The Duke of Edinburgh's Award is a UK-registered charity that runs a youth personal-development programme for 14–24-year-olds. It delivers tiered Awards (Bronze, Silver, Gold) focused on volunteering, skills, physical activity and outdoor expeditions, and provides resources, training and support for participants, leaders and partner organisations. The charity also raises funds, recruits volunteers, partners with schools and community groups, and provides branded merchandise and online tools to support participation and delivery.

📋 Description

• Lead and deliver our organisation-wide People and Culture strategy, aligned to our mission and long-term goals • Act as a trusted adviser to senior leadership and Trustees on all workforce, culture and organisational development matters • Shape a high-performing, inclusive culture where colleagues and volunteers feel valued, supported and inspired • Drive workforce planning, organisational design and leadership capability to enable future success • Champion an outstanding employee and volunteer experience, from attraction through to development and engagement • Lead our equity, diversity and inclusion agenda, embedding inclusive practice across everything we do • Use data and insight to inform decisions, measure impact and continuously improve outcomes • Oversee learning and development, talent management and succession planning • Ensure strong governance across people policies, employee relations, risk and compliance • Lead organisational change and transformation programmes with confidence and care

🎯 Requirements

• MCIPD/FCIPD (or equivalent experience) • Significant experience leading a People/HR/OD function at senior level in a complex organisation • A strong track record of delivering organisation-wide people strategies and cultural change • Experience of organisational transformation, workforce planning and organisational design • Proven ability to influence and advise senior leaders, executives and boards • Strong knowledge of employment law, governance and employee relations • Experience using people data and insights to drive decision-making and measure success • Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders • A clear commitment to equity, inclusion, wellbeing and values-led leadership • The ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery in a complex, evolving environment

🏖️ Benefits

• We offer excellent staff benefits including a generous pension contribution • an employee assistance programme • healthcare cash plan and volunteer leave • 25 days holiday • plus Bank Holidays and an additional 3 days paid leave between Christmas and the New Year • Buy additional annual leave • benefits discount website • death in service benefit 4 x salary • incapacity benefit • generous family leave and sick leave