About the job

Job summary

Applications for this role are restricted to existing employees of the College of Policing, the Civil Service and staff of a UK police force or UK policing organisation.

About us
We’re the professional body for the police service in England and Wales. We work with everyone in policing to set standards, to share knowledge and good practice and to support the development of police officers and staff. Our mission is to drive a consistent approach across policing where the public and the service expect it, to boost professionalism and to improve leadership at every level.

Although we're a small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

Job description

We look forward to reading your application for the role of Learning and Talent Manager

The selected candidate will contribute to building the College’s organisation development capability through consistent, integrated development and talent processes, embedding a learning culture, providing support to enable our people to realise their full potential and meet current and future workforce capability needs to deliver the College’s aims, objectives and business priorities. You will manage the College’s Apprenticeship agenda, acting as the key contact between managers and apprentices to ensure high standards are achieved and a positive learning experience is created and delivered for our apprentices, ensuring value of Levy spend is maximised. You will be working in a small, friendly team that is passionate about ensuring people thrive at work.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

- Working in close partnership with key stakeholders across the organisation to understand the development needs for all employees and proactively deliver a schedule of innovative learning solutions that develops the skill set across the College, brings about a high-performance culture by improving, enhancing or upskilling workforce capabilities and contributes to the creation of an internal talent pool that supports the College’s target operating model.

- Developing learning and development succession frameworks and plans that address and fulfil skills gaps, resourcing, talent and future needs, accounting for changing internal and external environment, business, leadership and learner needs. Ensure alignment of plans with workforce planning insights.

- Generating talent management methodologies in the College that directly contribute to raising individual, team and organisational performance, working collaboratively with internal and external partners to successfully implement effective programmes.

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

- To have achieved or be working towards NVQ Level 4 or above Diploma in Learning and Development or equivalent.

- Organisational skills and the ability to manage own workload, prioritising conflicting deadlines.

- To be self-motivated and use initiative with a proactive mind-set with a bias towards taking action and problem solving, with the ability and drive to spot and resolve issues as they occur.
 

Please see the attached job description which contains full details of the role.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £31,673, College of Policing contributes £8,551 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills.

Eligibility:

Vacancy reference: 6619 

We anticipate interviews will be held on Friday 9th and Monday12th February in Ryton-on-Dunsmore (CV8 3EN). The interview will be an hour long and will include a presentation. We will cover the Success Profile behaviours:

• Developing Self and Others
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
  

How to apply and contact information:

For further information visit our ‘Work for us’ page.

We believe that a diverse workforce brings many benefits to the organisation including diversity of thought and improvements to the way we work internally and with partners and communities. We strive to be fully inclusive but we know there is more to do. We genuinely encourage people from all backgrounds and underrepresented groups to apply for this role.

We want to continually improve our recruitment processes and to remove any barriers to equal opportunities that could disadvantage those from particular backgrounds. In order for us to have the information to do this, we ask you to please complete the diversity section of the online application process. We use a “blind” shortlisting process and we hope that by using this method we will be able to promote greater diversity in our workforce and remove any subconscious decisions based on biases.

The College is committed to support the Greening Government Commitment and reducing our Environmental impact.  We have a dynamic Environmental Management Plan in place which encompasses various objectives, including our pledge to reduce business travel.  To support our green agenda we have, in phase one, installed Electric Vehicle Charging Points at our sites in Ryton (12 points) and Harperley Hall (4 points) alongside two at our Harrogate office. We encourage employees to become an Environment Champion to help with promoting and delivering our Environmental Management Plan. Our One Step Greener approach encourages all College staff to make small changes to create a better future for everyone.

Please note that in order to work for the College of Policing you must have the Right to Work in the UK with indefinite leave to remain. In addition, you will also be required to provide an address history in the UK for the preceding 3 years.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.