Advert Close date: 30th September 2026
At The Crown Estate, our purpose is to create lasting and shared value for the nation. As the Skills and Capability Director, you will play a critical role in ensuring our organisation has the skills, capabilities and workforce readiness needed to deliver our long-term strategy and future ambitions.
You will be the enterprise lead for The Crown Estate's capability, helping the business understand the capabilities required for future success, identifying strengths and gaps, and shaping how internal capability is developed across the organisation. Working with senior leaders and key stakeholders, you will ensure investment in skills and development is focused on the areas that create the greatest value, resilience and agility for The Crown Estate.
This is a high profile leadership opportunity within People & Culture, reporting to the Head of Talent. The role is responsible for establishing and leading a practical, enterprise wide capability system that supports strategic decision-making, workforce planning, internal mobility and organisational performance.
Key responsibilities include:
Success in this role will be measured by the organisation's ability to understand, develop and deploy the capabilities needed to achieve strategic objectives, enhance workforce agility and build long-term organisational resilience.
We are looking for a strategic and commercially minded leader with significant experience of building organisational capability and enabling workforce readiness at an enterprise level.
Join us and help shape the skills, capability and workforce readiness that will enable The Crown Estate to create lasting and shared value for generations to come.
As well as a competitive salary, pension and performance related bonus offering, we have a wealth of benefits available ranging from flexible working; market leading family policies and shopping discounts in the West End, to private healthcare; life and critical illness cover and 28 days holiday with the option to buy more. We value work life balance and your wellbeing highly, enabling you to be your best self to work.
We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
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.
If you have any questions about our recruitment process or would like to talk about adjustments, please contact us directly, or at careers@thecrownestate.co.uk
Please note that if we receive a high volume of applications, we may close this advert early. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
At The Crown Estate, our role is to put the nation’s interests first.
We manage land, property and the seabed across England, Wales and Northern Ireland - independently, commercially and for our nation’s future.
We’re investing and playing a key role in delivering net zero and energy security, nature recovery and biodiversity, and supporting inclusive communities and economic growth, all while responsibly creating financial value for the UK.
We return our profits to the UK government for public spending, which has totalled more than £5 billion over the last ten years.
We manage a diverse £15 billion portfolio, making a lasting impact, today and for generations to come. This includes urban centres and development opportunities; one of the largest rural holdings in the country; Regent Street and St James’s in London’s West End; and Windsor Great Park. We also manage the seabed and much of the coastline around England, Wales and Northern Ireland, where we have an ambitious vision for how the UK’s seabed can support nature recovery and the transition to clean energy.
