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About the Role
As the Skills and Capability Director at The Crown Estate, you will ensure the organization possesses the necessary skills, capabilities, and workforce readiness to achieve its long-term strategy and future ambitions. You will lead the enterprise-wide capability function, identifying strengths and gaps, and shaping internal capability development to maximize value, resilience, and agility.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the enterprise capability framework, aligning with strategic priorities and future business needs.
- Translate organizational strategy into clear capability requirements, identifying internal strengths, gaps, and risks.
- Provide data and insights to support workforce, development, and investment decisions.
- Enable capability-based career pathways and enhance internal mobility.
- Act as product owner for skills, capability, and learning technologies, ensuring effectiveness and business value.
- Shape capability building activities delivered through leaders, People Business Partners, learning teams, and external partners.
- Evaluate the impact of capability investments and ensure focus on outcomes that strengthen organizational performance.
- Establish governance, assurance, and equitable capability practices that are consistent, accessible, and inclusive.
Requirements
- Significant experience in building organizational capability and enabling workforce readiness at an enterprise level.
- Experience designing, establishing, or evolving enterprise capability, skills, or workforce development approaches aligned to organizational strategy.
- Proven ability to translate business objectives into clear capability priorities that inform workforce planning, development, and investment decisions.
- Experience identifying capability strengths, risks, and gaps using data and insight to drive action and business outcomes.
- Experience leading or sponsoring people technology solutions, balancing adoption, usability, insight, and organizational value.
- Strong track record of delivering outcomes through influence, partnerships, and collaboration rather than direct control.
- Experience advising and influencing senior leaders on capability, organizational effectiveness, and workforce readiness.
- Demonstrated commitment to fairness, transparency, and creating long-term organizational value.
Skills
- Capability Strategy
- Systems Thinking
- Insight and Judgement
- Technology Leadership
- Stakeholder Influence
- Prioritisation and Resource Stewardship
- Executive Communication
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts in the West End
- Private healthcare
- Life and critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday with the option to buy more
About the Company
- The Crown Estate's purpose is to create lasting and shared value for the nation.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme.
- We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.