Senior HR Change Lead

Job Title: Senior HR Change Lead

Salary: The starting salary is £80,260, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

The salary is broken down as £77,332 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £89,320 Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Kilburn

More trust. Less crime.

High standards is the Met’s mission. How we will start to deliver that is set out in our New Met for London plan - cutting crime through community crime fighting, building a culture based on the values of policing by consent, and organising and deploying our people better. Driving this reform requires change across all areas of the Met – but especially in the way our teams are organised and the way they function. To lead this transformation, we are recruiting for a Senior HR Change Lead – a strategic thinker who can shape and build our approach to organisational change, and an inspirational leader who will deliver the structural changes we need. 

To join us, you will need extensive experience as an HR Practitioner and a successful record of leading people-based change. It is vital that you understand current employment legislation, and can make informed, risk-based decisions about complex employment issues. Knowledge and experience of the policing environment would be useful, but not essential. More important are your persuasive communication and leadership skills - which you will use with senior business leaders to shape their approach to people change. Supporting them through the change journey - providing expert guidance when needed but challenging where appropriate. You will share our values of integrity; courage; accountability; respect and empathy, bringing them to life in how you work and using our principles to shape your decisions. You will also lead and deliver continuous improvement activities across HR - ensuring our service offer to the wider Met is both efficient and effective.  
 
Why join us? Besides the rewarding nature of the job itself and working for an organisation that makes a difference every day you will receive a competitive salary and a Civil Service pension. You will also benefit from excellent career and professional development.

Key responsibilities
On a day-to-day basis you will have four primary areas of responsibility:

• Shape local and business level change strategies, work with senior leaders to ensure all people-based change, restructures and re-organisations are optimised – managing business objectives, employment legislation and industrial relations. 
• Be the MPS subject matter expert and professional head of service for people-based change. Providing authoritative guidance and insight – interpreting policy within a specific context, with risk-based insight on different courses of action, and minimum legal positions.
• Manage and deliver the end-to-end change process. Through a team of 10 HR change professionals, which you will lead, ensure change is appropriately planned, legal compliance is delivered, and risk is actively managed. Lead the career transition service – ensuring displacement, and if appropriate redundancy, is managed effectively and in line with the law.
• Continuous improvement across the HR function – ensuring HR operations are effective, efficient and focused on the needs of the frontline user.

Scope for impact

As a senior leader with HR and the Met, you will be responsible for delivering key aspects of our major transformation projects – setting the strategy for how we build new organisational units, transform existing units, and manage re-deployment efficiently and with empathy. Your work will be highly visible to senior operational leaders, directors, and management board, and be a critical enabler to delivering our New Met for London plan.

Additional Information

We also welcome INTERNAL applicants to express their interest in this opportunity on a short-term, six-month attachment basis. This is a great chance to broaden your experience, develop new skills and contribute to a different area of the organisation

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement, you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 13th November 2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager. 

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview. 

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