Carole Noble

Experience

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  Stockport NHS Foundation Trust

  Jan 1992 - Jan 1993

  Assistant HR Officer

  HR advice and recruitment service in a busy NHS Trust.

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  Stockport MBC

  Jan 1993 - Jan 1998

  HR Officer

  Full range of HR advisory and operational services to the Community Services Division of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.

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  The Big Issue in the North

  Jan 1998 - Jan 2001

  Human Resources Manager

  Set up and managed an HR function for The Big Issue in the North and The Big Issue in the North Trust, ensuring HR services were provided to managers and staff across the North of England.

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  MAG (The Mines Advisory Group)

  Apr 2001 - Jul 2013

  Director of HR/Head of HR

  Carole worked for 12 years at MAG, a UK-based international NGO with over 2000 staff, initially as the Head of HR and then as Director of HR reporting to the Chief Executive. Key achievements included:• building and developing the HR function from a single person unit to a nine-strong department in order to provide a fully developed HR service;• member of the senior management team, ensuring effective people management was integral to developing and implementing organisational strategy;• development of HR policy to ensure that MAG had the ability to attract and retain highly skilled and experienced staff;• development and management of a programme of regular visits to overseas programmes to buildthe capacity of local HR functions and to ensure compliance with national employee-related legal obligations;• initiation of an employee engagement strategy resulting in the implementation of an annual staff survey scheme;• review of organisational remuneration policy resulting in a new job evaluation system, salary structures and reward systems;• effective management of organisational restructures;• management of a comprehensive recruitment service including project start-ups and emergency response;• review and development of new performance management processes ensuring that individual and organisational objectives were aligned and all employees had individual development plans. Show less

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  Self Employed

  Sept 2013 - Jun 2018

  HR Consultant

  Carole provides the following HR services :o Advice to senior management teams on improving organisational effectiveness through good people management strategies;o Providing practical solutions for effectively managing a full range of operational HR issues including recruitment, disciplinary issues, redundancies, performance management etc.;o HR legal compliance audits of contract terms and HR policy in overseas projects; o HR policy development, contract and handbook review and development.Recent projects include:- Developing a job grading structure and conducting salary benchmarking for an international NGO across 5 countries in Africa and the Middle East;- Review and standardisation of the terms and conditions and employment contracts of a Swiss international NGO across 11 countries in Africa, Asia and North America; - Leading the recruitment process of a new CEO for a UK-based international NGO working closely with the Board; - Working with the CEO of a UK-based international NGO to embed core values into organisational practice:- Advising on HR policy and benefits changes for a UK social enterprise following an organisational merger. Recent clients include: War Child UK, GAIN (The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition), Retrak, Blue Sky Development and The Contemporary Art Society. Show less

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  Railway Children

  Jun 2018 - now

  Group Director of People and Culture