Working alongside the Assistant Director – People Development, the Senior Manager – Learning & Organisational Development (L&OD) will play a key role in shaping and delivering Homes England’s L&OD agenda.
This is an exciting opportunity to influence organisational capability, leadership development and culture within a national organisation with a clear social purpose. The postholder will lead the development and delivery of strategic L&OD initiatives, working closely with senior leaders and stakeholders to ensure learning solutions are aligned to business priorities and deliver measurable impact.
Joining a collaborative and experienced team, you will help drive organisational performance through innovative, practical and customer-focused learning and development interventions that support colleagues, teams and the wider organisation.
Job overview
The Senior Manager – Learning & Organisational Development is responsible for developing and managing a professional, innovative and impactful L&OD offer that supports organisational capability, performance and workforce development.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the design, delivery and evaluation of strategic L&OD initiatives that support organisational priorities and business objectives.
- Developing and implementing talent management frameworks and strategies that support workforce planning, succession planning and organisational capability.
- Designing and embedding leadership, management, talent, coaching and onboarding programmes that drive engagement, capability and cultural change.
- Acting as a trusted adviser to senior leaders, providing expert guidance on organisational development, learning strategies and people development challenges.
- Building strong partnerships across the organisation to ensure learning interventions are aligned to business need and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Leading and managing organisational development and change initiatives, acting as a positive and influential change agent across the Agency.
- Managing relationships with external learning and development providers to ensure high-quality, value-for-money solutions.
- Promoting a culture of continuous learning, innovation and improvement across the organisation.
- Leading and developing team members to deliver a high-performing, customer-focused L&OD service.
- Demonstrating and embedding Homes England’s values and behaviours, contributing to an inclusive and positive working culture.
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience of leading and managing extensive engagement with senior stakeholders within a Learning and Organisational Development environment, operating as a trusted adviser and influencing at a strategic level.
- Substantial experience of successfully leading, managing and developing high-performing teams to design, deliver and embed innovative L&OD solutions that support organisational priorities.
- Significant experience of developing and implementing organisational development strategies that enable a learning organisation and align learning interventions with business objectives.
- Extensive experience of designing, delivering, embedding and evaluating leadership, management, talent, coaching and onboarding programmes that drive capability development and cultural change.
- Experience of supporting organisational change initiatives and influencing leaders through periods of transformation.
- Demonstrable commitment to continuous professional development and application of a broad range of L&OD methodologies, tools and psychometric approaches.
- Experience of working effectively with external learning and development providers and partners to deliver successful outcomes.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence and challenge constructively.
- Strong strategic thinking capability combined with the ability to translate strategy into practical, high-impact delivery.
- A collaborative, resilient and proactive approach, with a commitment to continuous improvement and inclusive leadership.
Benefits
Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:
- Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.
- Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.
- Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.
- Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.
- We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.
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Selection process details
How to apply?
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Security
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.
Selection process details
For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.
Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.
Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally.
To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application. Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates.
We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential. Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter.
Nationality requirements
Open to UK, Commonwealth and European Economic Area (EEA) and certain non EEA nationals. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.
Working for the Civil Service
Please note this Post is not regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a guaranteed disability confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Further information
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Contact point for applicants
Name: Recruitment Team
Email: [email protected]
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
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
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.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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