About the department
The People Department is responsible for shaping and enabling sustainable people solutions. It develops policies, procedures and guidance on all aspects of people management to enable and equip our leaders.
The People Department consists of five key teams:
- People Operations
- People Partnering
- Organisational Change
- People Development & Experience
- Equality and Diversity.
Departmental management team
The Director of People and Culture is a member of the university’s executive board alongside a number of university committees. The Director of People and Culture leads the overall strategy of the department including equality, diversity and inclusion. They are supported by the Deputy Director of People, who deputises for them and drives forward the people priorities for the department. The Deputy Director of People is in turn supported by the senior managers leading our key areas of people operations, people partnering, organisational change and leadership and organisational development.
People operations
This area is led by the People Manager (operations). People operations consists of three smaller teams which work closely together to support managers and staff in a full range of their day-to-day activities. These teams are as follows: recruitment and orientation, people support and people data and systems.
People partnering
This area is responsible for:
- pay and reward
- union relationship management
- formal negotiating and consultation frameworks
- terms and conditions of service
- employment legislation impact assessment
- policy development and review
- people management advice and guidance
- formal casework management.
Organisational change
The organisational change team works with leaders and teams to guide them through the process of change, ensuring good practice and reducing risks associated with the change process. Organisational change refers to any modifications made to the university’s structure, culture, processes and strategies.
People Development & Experience
The People Development & Experience team oversees the university's approach on leader, people manager and colleague development and overall colleague experience. They create the conditions for an equitable, inclusive, and engaging culture where people can thrive, grow and contribute at their best. Through leadership development, induction, engagement, wellbeing, benefits, recognition, and performance enablement, the team support leaders and colleagues with building their skills, confidence and effectiveness, while fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and shared success.
Equality and diversity
The equality and diversity team is responsible for institutional equality, diversity and inclusion strategies and policies, project managing work on equality charters and benchmarks, supporting the staff equality networks and running staff training, events and other awareness and engagement activities on equality, diversity and inclusion.
Contact
People Department
Room 217, Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN2 4AT
Email: people@brighton.ac.uk
Tel: 01273 642837