NICS People Strategy
NICS People Strategy 2025 – 2030
The Strategy
The People Strategy is agreed by the NICS Board and sets out a number of key themes and initiatives which puts skills at the heart of the People Strategy and will ensure that we will have the required capability to deliver our mandate. The implementation of this Strategy will enable the Civil Service to build on our strengths, deliver our work programme, and prepare for future challenges and opportunities. Through this, we will have a collaborative and skilled civil service focused on outcomes and delivering for all
The People Strategy commitments focus on three key themes:
- Skills and Capacity: Ensuring that our workforce is equipped with the skills and capabilities to meet current and future demands.
- Experience and Environment: Creating a positive and supportive work environment that enhances the overall experience of the workforce.
- Leadership and Inclusion: Fostering a culture of strong leadership, inclusivity, and diversity to drive better outcomes for our workforce and the public we serve
Key Initiatives
Each theme is underpinned by actions to be delivered over the next five years:
- Simplify and streamline the recruitment process: To ensure we continue to recruit the best people and address capability gaps.
- Introduce a new corporate approach to strategic workforce planning: With the development of Civil Service workforce planning toolkits and modelling proposals.
- Complete a review of Civil Service professions: To ensure a workforce empowered to deliver.
- Improve digital skills: Supporting the workforce to best utilise the tools and platforms available to them as well as emerging technologies.
- Complete a HR policy renewal programme: To modernise people policies to ensure they are user-centric and have a positive impact on employee experience.
- Improve the workforce’s health and wellbeing: Through the implementation of the Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Strategy, building a positive health and wellbeing culture for all Civil Servants.
- Set out a fair total reward approach in a new Pay and Reward Strategy: That sets out a fair total reward approach for the Civil Service as an employer.
- Equip and support managers: By implementing a refreshed learning and development provision for management and leadership.
Build capability with a focus on collective leadership: Developing leaders across our whole workforce, encouraging the values and behaviours that inspire teams and foster a sense of collective purpose.
NICS People Strategy 2025 - 2030
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