Head of People Department

**The Institute**

The Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) is an international biomedical research institute of excellence, based in Barcelona, Spain, with more than 400 scientists from 44 countries. The CRG is composed by an interdisciplinary, motivated and creative scientific team which is supported both by a flexible and efficient administration and by high-end and innovative technologies.

In April 2021, the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) received the renewal of the 'HR Excellence in Research' Award from the European Commission. This is a recognition of the Institute's commitment to developing an HR Strategy for Researchers, designed to bring the practices and procedures in line with the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers (Charter and Code).

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**The role**

We are looking for a **Head of People Department** (HPD) who, working in collaboration with leaders, teams and individuals across the CRG, is focused on creating the conditions for our people that will ensure our ideas thrive and deliver against our global ambitions in a stimulating international research environment.

Reporting to the Administrative Director, the HPD is responsible for designing, developing and implementing HR policies and procedures aligned with the strategy of the organization, thus offering a supportive, encouraging and challenging working environment that promotes equal opportunities, ethical integrity and work-life balance.

**The main responsibilities**:
Leadership
- Lead the People strategy implementation, developing initiatives that will increase our organisation value and our staff wellbeing.
- Working side by side with scientific leaders to ensure that the CRG is a place where research thrives
- Creation of a work environment conducive to communication, where opinions can be shared and where everyone feels comfortable expressing their own opinions.
- Promoting and developing relevant HR strategies and programmes across the institute aligned with the strategy of the organisation. Monitoring the performance of the People Department team to ensure progress towards the CRG strategic objectives, while supporting their professional empowerment and commitment.
- Supervising HR daily operations (contracts, payroll, recruiting, welcome services and onboarding).
- Actively engaging with the CRG community and a variety of key stakeholders to promote and execute on key HR initiatives and actions, such as HR Excellence in Research, Gender balance, Diversity and inclusion
- Promoting a positive image of the institute by participating in relevant community organizations and meetings, as well as international, and local professional associations.
- Reporting to senior management by analysing data and using HR metrics and providing advice on decisions.
- Working as liaison of the CRG Works Council.

HR Talent & Development
- Leading the HR Excellence in Research from the design, implementation and from the follow-up of action plan to the external representation of the CRG and benchmarking with other institutes.
- Representing the People Department in the CRG Gender Balance Committee, responsible for the implementation of HR related actions of the CRG Gender Equality Plan and promoting new actions.
- Leading and follow-up the staff career development and performance system by promoting training and development activities.
- Designing and executing any other special projects in People talent and development on a variety of topics such as diversity and inclusion.
- Working in a coordinated manner with the Training and Academic Office (TAO), with the Department of Communication, Health and Safety and with those departments that are appropriate and necessary in order to implement people policies.

HR General Management
- Ensuring compliance with European, Spanish and regional regulations in terms of employment legislation and other HR-related regulations, such as data protection.
- Actively participating in the implementation of business process optimization and review processes leading to the identification of redundancies or inefficiencies, as well as monitoring the adherence to established internal HR procedures and policies and institutional policies.
- Contact point for CRG staff seeking advice and guidance in wider HR issues.
- Anticipating risks and resolving conflicts.
- Leading the workforce HR metrics by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans; measuring and analysing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.
- Promoting and evaluating the implementation of HR relevant IT tools.

**About the department**

The mission of the CRG’s People Department is to provide a nurturing environment to attain organisational excellence, thereby fostering a positive and diverse work environment and promoti