Senior She Business Partner Job In London

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Job Description - Senior SHE Business Partner (041598)

Senior SHE Business Partner 041598

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Job title: Senior SHE Business Partner:

Overview of project/role

We are looking for people with a passion for making London’s transport network safer, healthier, and greener.

Transport for London (TfL) plays a significant role in London and our Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team inspires and influences our leadership teams, colleagues, customers and other stakeholders to deliver safer, healthier and more efficient services for the millions of people who use them every day.

Our vision is “Everyone home safe and healthy every day”, and we’re committed to meeting these expectations.

We have an exciting opportunity to join our active and influential Safety, Health & Environment (SHE) team as a Senior Business Partner: Health, Safety & Environment supporting the Capital Delivery, Engineering and Asset Strategy team.

We are looking for a experienced SHE professional with excellent communication, influencing and problem-solving skills. With a commitment to excellence in health, safety and environmental performance, you will be able to demonstrate experience of leading the development of high-quality support to delivery teams and inspiring commitment and action from others to deliver improvements in SHE performance. You will have a track record of driving SHE improvements through a proactive approach involving culture change.

As well as being part of the TfL SHE team, you will work as an integral part of the TfL Chief Capital Office Delivery leadership team, providing the necessary leadership, support and challenge to ensure that we achieve our SHE goals.

Key Accountabilities 

Your work will include, but not be limited to:

• Being an active member of the relevant TfL Delivery leadership team – presenting the full picture of SHE performance, risks, and initiatives across their business area;
• Leading a team of SHE professionals who provide SHE direction, technical advice, best practice sharing and support in incident investigation and learning..
• Understanding TfL-wide and business specific SHE risks, data and strategic direction. Ensuring your teams understand and their efforts are directed at supporting the business in areas of highest risk and are actively engaged in shaping the SHE strategy. Reflect business needs and requirements back into the TfL SHE team to ensuring that these are embedded in TfL SHE’s vision and strategy..
• Manage second line assurance for your business area, in line with TfL’s SHE assurance frameworks.
• Coaching the business to understand their regulatory requirements and challenge them to improve performance.
• Be a role model for diversity and inclusion, driving change within the function, influencing to positively affect the whole directorate and beyond.
• Act as a core part of the leadership team for the SHE Directorate, including managing overall SHE budget, leading on change and deputising for the Head of Business Partnering as required.

Skills:

• Leadership skills to inspire, manage, motivate and develop your team and colleagues across TfL;
• Well-developed collaboration, relationship and stakeholder management skills with proven ability to communicate with, influence and build relationships with key stakeholders including working across organisational boundaries;
• Vision, commitment and enthusiasm for change, with the tenacity and resilience to overcome challenges, demonstrating proven ability to take complex and strategic improvement initiatives from feasibility through to successful delivery;
• Strong skills in SHE risk management and assurance programmes;
• Strong ability to understand performance data and trends and explain the underlying meaning to the business
• Well-developed collaboration skills, including working across organisational boundaries
• Strong ability to initiate and effect business and behaviour change design
• Ability to work in a highly pressurised environment to very tight time constraints and high quality
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with a proven ability to write strategic and analytical reports

Knowledge:

• Understanding of the Mayor's Transport Strategy and TfL's business priorities
• Knowledge of external SHE regulatory and legislative requirements which apply to public transport and construction industries.
• Strong understanding of engineering, operational and business management requirements in a safety critical environment
• Comprehensive understanding of the principles and application of SHE Management systems.
• Membership of relevant professional body eg. IOSH, IEMA, CIBSE (Desirable)
• Strong knowledge of SHE techniques (for example investigation, risk assessment and assurance.

Experience:

• Experience in a management role, leading, developing and motivating staff while improving performance
• Experience or leading in SHE-conscious environment
• Experience of influencing stakeholders to deliver business improvements which have lasting results;
• Demonstrated ability to understand a very broad range of strategic management issues and respond in an agile way;
• Experience in communicating complex information in an easily digestible manner to non-technical audiences in a way which drives effective decision-making;
• Experience in operating at a senior level and influencing director discussions around business vision and direction.
• Experience of leading and continuously developing teams while improving performance

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, which will help us become a more innovative and efficient organisation. Our goal is to make our recruitment as inclusive as possible. We are a disability confident employer who guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We also use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application Process

• Please apply using your CV and a one page covering letter. Word format preferred and do not include any photographs or images

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 15th March @ 23:59

Benefits:
In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.