Join our team
This is an exciting role for an experienced, qualified People leader who is currently working at Assistant or Director level.
You will help us to continue to modernise our working practices and provide value for money while respecting our incredible history and tradition and building on our positive culture. You will also help us fundamentally link high performance and reward, and enhance our offer as an employer of choice.
Welcome
Thank you for considering becoming our next Director People and Culture at Trinity House.
Personally, I am extremely proud to have joined the Corporation of Trinity House in early 2024 as the Deputy Master and the Chief Executive of the General Lighthouse Authority. Trinity House is a fascinating, globally renowned organisation with a nationally important role as an aid to navigation provider whose name is synonymous with maritime welfare and cadet training. Due to the breadth of our responsibilities and enviable heritage, you would be hard-pressed to find a corner of Britain’s maritime sector in which we are not involved in some way.
In our capacity as a General Lighthouse Authority and an Arms Length Body of the UK Government, we have a statutory duty to deliver a reliable, efficient and cost-effective aids to navigation service for the benefit and safety of all mariners. Simply put, our vision is for the waters of England, The Channel Islands & Gibraltar to be the safest to navigate anywhere in the world.
To fulfil that vision, we need to continue to attract and retain great people. As we say in our new strategy – Lighting the Way to 2035; “we will be a values-led, well-led, match fit organisation with people who want to join us, grow with us and advocate for us”.
These are therefore exciting times for Trinity House. Firstly, we are making great strides in replacing our ships. We have established a new project team, and we are well on the way to achieving approval from the Government. The next step will then be to go to out to tender. New ships will better enable us to fulfil our mission, and it will markedly improve the terms and conditions for our seafarers.
Secondly, to address turnover that is in places too high, there has been renewed focus on our people priorities. We have taken steps to improve pay and reward, within the context of our role as a non-departmental public body, including establishing a clear pay policy and recognition arrangements. We are also taking a more focused approach to learning and development including the introduction of leadership and management development programmes and improving engagement across our diverse groups of employees. This is a good start, but there is still more to do to and that is exactly where you come in.
The most important factor in Trinity House’s success is our people. Despite being an engineering, shipping and technology organisation it is our people, and their spirit of innovation that has kept Trinity House at the forefront of maritime safety for the last 500 years, and with your help, dedication and commitment we will do so long into the future.
You can make a real difference here. I look forward to meeting you and welcoming you to the team.
Rear Admiral Iain Lower CB,
Deputy Master and Chief Executive Officer of the Lighthouse Board