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Role purpose and summary
Depending on the team, your role will be to assist the Heads of Leadership, Talent and Capability and the Leadership, Talent and Capability Leads in translating the Leadership / Talent / Capability Strategy into a plan that is delivered effectively to ensure that the MoJ is a department where leaders inspire; talent is nurtured; diversity is celebrated; and everyone is enabled to be their best.
This includes:
- Shaping and influencing the strategic direction for leadership, talent and capability through the delivery of high quality, high impact programmes, interventions, events and assessments. With the aim to develop all staff regardless of grade, share best practice and learn from others.
- Championing people development to inspire and empower every individual to fulfil their potential across the MoJ family.
- Oversee and co-ordinate programmes, interventions and events that aim to develop everyone across the MoJ family.
- Working collaboratively with Design and Delivery and Enablement and Evaluation colleagues to deliver the end-to-end project management which will require utilising learner engagement and evaluation expertise from across the team – this role will involve leading with strategic insight and being able to communicate with clarity.
- Effective collaboration and engagement with a range of stakeholders including working with other Government departments and agencies as appropriate to support civil service alignment of leadership / talent / capability activities.
- Striving for excellence in a dynamic and creative way, open to working in a collaborative, iterative way that gets the best from the team whilst working at pace.
Impact role has on organisation:
The Leadership, Talent and Capability Consultant role is a key role that translates the Leadership / Talent / Capability plan into deliverables - co-ordinating programmes, interventions and events to support the development of skills and practices, strengthen individual and organisational capability and support continuous improvement and growth across the MoJ family and its 80,000 members of staff.
In our organisation:
- Leadership is a responsibility we all have regardless of grade. It is a transferable skill set that is developed through strategic interventions based on evidence and research. Leadership is an area we invest in and value and we aim to develop self-sufficient, motivated leaders who inspire.
- Talent is recognising skills and expertise in individuals, even when they don’t see it in themselves. The development of a healthy pipeline of future talent that will service our business needs. The creation of an environment where talent is consistently, fairly and frequently talked about.
- Capability is ensuring we are operating an effective justice system and that our people have the right skills to perform their jobs. Recognising our strengths and opportunities and investing in priority areas. Opening opportunities to extend skills, for example through access to apprenticeships, qualifications and online learning.
Key Accountabilities, responsibilities, and deliverables
Discovery
- Provide expertise, specialist capability analysis and support to senior leaders, managers and stakeholders in order to identify appropriate learning and development products and solutions for all leadership, talent and capability needs that are timely and make best use of resources.
- Oversee and co-ordinate valid proposals that are accepted and align to the Leadership / Talent / Capability strategies. Clearly present robust recommendations and advice to leaders and colleagues at all levels with confidence and conviction surrounding leadership / talent / capability. This includes identifying improvements and managing a quality service to time, cost and quality.
- Building and maintaining successful stakeholder relationships with a range of stakeholders at all levels and across boundaries, through consistent, honest and open dialogue. Including supporting decision making, managing stakeholder / customer expectations, and persuading and influencing others who are likely to prefer alternative options or approaches. This will support civil service alignment of leadership / talent / capability activities.
- Recognising and understanding individual organisational cultures across the MoJ family and how these impact on leadership / talent / capability agendas.
- Take an active role in driving the leadership / talent / capability agenda to embed a learning culture that is underpinned by our organisational MoJ values through numerous initiatives such as the various leadership / talent / capability programmes, interventions, qualifications and events, to support organisational development and cultural change. This will also involve enhancing skills, development of talent and capability across the MoJ via a provision of support including tool kits, Leadership Codebreakers, bespoke workshops, coaching, mentoring, and interventions at individual and national level.
- Identify and clarify requirements including understanding priorities, develop options and create frameworks to deliver outcomes whilst understanding the optimal approach. This will involve exercising discretion in managing particular areas of work, responding to changing requirements and managing performance to ensure quality outcomes are delivered on time.
Design
- Lead virtual teams to co-ordinate wide reaching, innovative, impactful and engaging programmes, interventions, events aligned to the Leadership, Talent and Capability strategies that are responsive to the needs of business areas and individual across the MoJ. This will also involve continually reviewing and improving our offer in line with evaluation recommendations and ever-changing business needs.
Test
- Generate new ideas, evaluate options, impacts, risks and identify potential solutions. You will be expected to take independent action and exercise judgement and discretion in interpreting requirements.
- Appreciate the diverse needs of our customer base, delivering specific programmes and interventions that meet the needs of under-represented groups in line with MoJ wide strategies, ensuring diversity and inclusion is explicitly and proactively promoted and supported in all work.
Delivery
- Building mutual understanding and achieving co-operation. This includes ensuring delivery is on track across your work, reconciling different priorities, resolving issues and understanding underlying causes before providing solutions and promoting productivity.
- Pro-actively lead and deliver several projects at a time by building links with other teams, encouraging cross-team working and supporting and energising teams to deliver outcomes.
Review
- Research best practice and latest thinking, utilise stakeholder feedback and lessons learnt to continuously improve, pursue excellence and credibility to support and develop everyone across the MoJ.
- Review existing capability, identifying strengths, risks and gaps and addressing development needs in the designing of necessary interventions to drive business performance at individual and organisational levels.
- Support the Leadership / Talent / Capability Leads to provide value for money services that are conscious of the public purse and optimise funds – seeking to address, cultivate and curate local initiatives where possible. This could include day-to-day oversight of delegated budgets for projects and discrete areas of work, providing clear audit trail where needed and reporting to the budget holder.
- Working alongside MoJ Commercial experts, you will need to have a level of understanding of commercial processes, risk and supplier management in order to support the Leadership / Talent / Capability Leads with the identification and selection of appropriate leadership / talent / capability interventions via an external supplier through a competitive tender process.
Team
- Support collaborative working across functional and organisational boundaries, manage inter-relationships with a focus on planning and balancing workloads. Regularly seek out opportunities to provide more responsive services. This will include specifying standards for service delivery; identifying improvements in service delivery mechanisms; resolving conflicts to meet targets (where applicable) and deadlines; managing and mitigating risks and ensuring work is integrated and co-ordinated in line with plans.
The duties / responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to undertake additional tasks commensurate with their grade.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience incl. qualifications
Essential:
Involved in the development and delivery of robust and measurable organisation wide strategies / plans / programmes that deliver impact and positive change.
Track record of building and maintaining effective stakeholder relationships.
Experience of leading virtual teams and projects.
Experience of working on your own initiative, delivering through others and ensuring that leadership / talent / capability leads are kept informed of risks and issues.
Experience of working in a flexible, agile environment and ability to plan ahead to ensure that the portfolio is developed to meet changing operating requirements.
Ability to manage contracts.
Skills: teamwork and collaboration; leadership, professionalism and strong work ethic
Excellent drafting, presentation, oral and written communication skills
High degree of autonomy
Desirable:
Experience of planning, organising and utilising project methodology to deliver positive outcomes.
Proven track record in a leadership / talent / capability development role either in the Civil Service or in a large private sector organisation.
Experience of navigating often complex political landscapes, recognising issues even when they may be under the surface, exposing and resolving tensions, and sharing best practice and learning.
We may consider any evidence within the application form that demonstrates meeting the desirable criteria as set out in the job description. This will only be after essential criteria is scored and where there is a need to differentiate between closely scored candidates. We are unable to provide feedback to those candidates who are unsuccessful at the sifting stage.
