Senior Talent & Learning Consultant

Are you passionate about developing talent and creating learning opportunities that help people and organisations succeed?

Do you have the leadership skills to deliver strategic learning initiatives while managing resources effectively?

Can you influence stakeholders and drive a culture of continuous learning and capability development across a large organisation?

Your responsibilities will include, but arent limited to:

1. To inform the development of the talent and learning strategy ensuring alignment to the future requirements of the agency strategy and to include provision to future proof the workforce to support changing business needs and develop talent pipelines.

2. To provide L&D consultancy skills to the business. Working with the Heads of Professions, Strategic L&D Leads and HRBP team, to identify strategic capability and skills gaps and to recommend suitable development opportunities and cost-effective solutions to meet business needs.

3. Act as a specialist, single point of contact and manage the relationships between CS Learning and the agency, working with DfT L&D to seek solutions to issues. Actively build relationships across the Department and wider government to share and gain best practice and learning.

4. Manage the Agency central training budget, critically evaluating the impact and cost effectiveness of all learning interventions, supporting and implementing changes to programmes and processes by continuous improvement.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills they need. We aim to empower line managers to create teams where people can flourish and deliver excellent outcomes for the public.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

1. Experience of developing, delivering, or supporting learning, talent, or workforce development initiatives within a complex organisation.

2. Experience of working with a range of stakeholders to identify capability needs and implement learning or development solutions that support business objectives.

3. Experience of providing advice and guidance on talent management, learning and development, workforce capability, and learning management systems involvement in people-focused activities.

4. Experience of managing competing priorities, resources, budgets, or programmes, ensuring effective delivery of outcomes and continuous improvement.

You will hold a Level 5 CIPD qualification at Associate Level or be willing to work toward this.