Role Overview

The Director of Human Resources is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping the people strategy, strengthening culture, ensuring compliance, and supporting managers across the organisation. This role leads HR operations while also contributing to organisational strategy and workforce planning.

What we offer you

• Full-Time, Specified Purpose role for the purpose of covering the maternity leave of the current Director of HR.
• Start Date: End March/April 2026
• This role is part of the Executive Leadership Team.
• Salary: €80,633 per annum.
• Multi-site work environment with a hybrid option following probation.
• Commitment to work–life balance and staff wellbeing.

Employee Benefits

• Pension: The company contributes 7% of an employee's annual salary into the employee's Pension following completion of the probation period.
• Annual leave: As a senior manager, this role receives 30 Days of annual leave per annum.
• Company Day: At SDVS, Good Friday is offered as an additional day off.
• Annual Leave Purchase Scheme: SDVS have an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme in place where employees can apply to purchase an additional week's annual leave each year.
• Wedding Leave: We offer employees with 1 year's service who are getting married, an additional 1 day paid leave for their wedding.
• Paid Sick leave: We operate a paid scheme leave scheme upon successful completion of probation period.
• Paid Maternity leave: SDVS top up an employee's salary to 100% for the period of Statutory Maternity Leave. Employees are eligible after completion of 1 year of service, on the date they go on maternity leave.
• Doctor visits: Employee well-being is important to us at SDVS. We offer employees €35 contribution towards 2 GP visits per year.
• Digital Doctor: Free access to a digital doctor for employees and their families.
• Education Support: At SVDS we offer an Education Assistance policy for employees to apply for funding towards further education.
• Training & Development: Access to excellent training opportunities and continuous professional development.
• Well-being App: All employees have access to the Wisdom app to support employees in all 4 pillars of their well-being.
• EAP: We offer a 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for employees and their families to avail of counselling support confidentially.
• Wellbeing Days: We host several employee wellbeing activities across the year for employees to take time out to focus on team building and their own wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic HR leadership as part of the Senior Leadership Team.
• Oversee recruitment, talent development, and workforce planning.
• Lead on employee relations matters, ensuring fair, lawful, trauma-informed practice.
• Strengthen organisational culture, communication, and leadership capability.
• Ensure compliance with employment law, WRC standards, safeguarding, and best practice.
• Oversee mandatory training and continuous professional development.
• Lead HR policy development, HR reporting, and risk management.
• Manage HR systems, data protection, and operational HR functions.
• Managing the HR Team, ensuring the ongoing development of the HR Executive.

This is not an exhaustive job description. Full job description available on request.

About you

• Minimum qualification: Degree in HR, with module on Irish Employment Law or related discipline.
• CIPD Qualification.
• 10+ years HR experience with a minimum of 5 years in a HR leadership role, ideally in social care or not-for-profit setting.
• Experience working in a unionised environment is preferable, however, not essential.
• Strong knowledge and experience working in the context of Irish employment law.
• Demonstrated experience in ER case management, HR strategy, and organisational development.
• Leadership capability and experience supporting senior managers.
• Ability to work sensitively and confidentially in a trauma-informed environment.

Apply for the job

Do you want to join our team as our new Director of Human Resources? Then we'd love to hear about you! To apply all candidates must submit a detailed CV outlining how they meet the above criteria for the role. Applications should be submitted here by Wednesday 21st January 2026.

Download our full Recruitment Pack >here.