About the job

Job summary

We’re looking for an exceptional Performance Consultant to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Performance Consultant, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is part time, the successful candidate can work a minimum of 18 hours up to a maximum of 24 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Whilst this is a temporary position until 31st March 2025 there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

Your world of expertise

It is recognised that there is a UK skills gap in data science, data assimilation and research software engineering, both in terms of the number and diversity of individuals. In December 2022, the Met Office was awarded £2.5M funding for a new project to create a Transatlantic Data Science Academy (TDSA) in partnership with NOAA to help address these challenges.

The TDSA Project is split into three key work packages:

• Work Package 1: Exchanges
• Work Package 2: Career Development
• Work Package 3: Sandpit

The People Development Team at the Met Office is supporting the delivery of Work Package 2. This theme will offer career development to Met Office staff and students or researchers at partner universities, through the delivery of structured career frameworks, training and learning-and-development activities. 

To help deliver this, People Development requires a Performance Consultant to join our team. You will work with the TDSA Project Team, MOAP (Met Office Academic Partnership) partners and other learning and development experts to help shape, deliver and evaluate the Work Package 2 deliverables throughout FY2024/25.

As our Performance Consultant you will use a broad range of performance consultancy tools and techniques to carry out these key duties:

• Work with the TDSA Project Team and partners to identify suitable learning solutions to meet the aims of the project and optimise business and individual performance.
• Ensure metrics for measuring impact are identified and agreed, which are then embedded into the evaluation process for each intervention, enabling the project to produce Return on Investment / Return on Expectation reports and recommendations for change.
• Champion the People Development learning philosophy and plan (70-20-10 model), role modelling learning best practice within the Met Office and with our external partners.
• Work with Head(s) of Profession and senior leadership teams to define interventions that enable people to develop data science competence within their profession aligned to our People Framework

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. A good understanding of the Met Office’s learning philosophy, including the 70:20:10 model, and how to work with subject matter experts to apply this to meet business need.
2. A proven ability to operate, and successfully deliver, outcomes with significant degree of autonomy within defined resources and operating framework.
3. An understanding of the importance of measuring the impact of interventions and knowledge of different methods by which this can be achieved.
4. A proven ability to work with others using influence and persuasion skills to achieve desirable outcomes.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £41,725, Met Office contributes £11,307 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

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you. Apply below with your CV and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 26/05/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 10/06/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

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 security 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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. 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.