Leadership and Management Specialist

37 hours per week.

We are currently recruiting for a Leadership and Management Specialist.

The purpose of the Leadership and Management Specialist role is to design and deliver highly professional colleague development programmes that support the delivery of the People Strategy. You will provide advice and develop learning interventions that support departmental and organisational needs and effective change management.  You will be expected to work as part of the Learning and Development Team, to bring your expertise in the design, development and delivery of quality programmes, along with any associated learning materials.  An innovative approach to design and delivery through traditional, blended and online methods will need to form part of your repertoire.

We are looking for someone who can develop programmes that support colleague career pathways, create learning materials and documentation suitable for the appropriate audiences and seek and introduce new ways of accessing learning and development resources.

As part of the role you will be required to coach and mentor managers across the organisation to enable them to drive personal performance across their teams. You will need to develop and manage activity and project plans to ensure initiatives are delivered within agreed timescales and where applicable in line with associated budgets. You will be required to enhance networks with other organisations as appropriate to build knowledge of best practice so that this is understood and shared amongst the Learning and Development and wider organisation.

As an equal opportunities employer, Valleys to Coast is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership. We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join Valleys to Coast.

Valleys to Coast reserves the right to close the job role earlier than the specified closing date if sufficient applications have been received. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as reasonably practicable. We look forward to hearing from you.