HS2 Learning Legacy Manager

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Job Description

Salary: Base salary: £38,550- £45,350 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 15% which is paid on top base salary and is fully pensionable, as well as a range of competitive benefits - check them out in the Benefits section on our website.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential. In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

As a Learning Legacy Manager at HS2 you will deliver HS2's Learning Legacy programme, which collates and disseminates good practice, innovation and lessons learned from HS2 both internally and externally - aimed at raising the bar in the wider industry.

About the role:

• Leading the implementation and continual development of the Learning Legacy programme across the organisation
• Engaging with knowledge theme leads, topic champions and other learning legacy sources, both in HS2 and the supply chain, for the generation of learning legacy content
• Maintaining a schedule of planned learning legacy content updates and associated timelines. This includes the management of bespoke challenges and competitions designed to generate the submission of technical lessons learned from across HS2 and its supply chain
• Reviewing draft learning legacy content and providing constructive feedback to authors, supported by a technical editor as required
• Managing the approval and publishing process with relevant colleagues from the External Affairs Directorate
• Editing, formatting and redacting Learning Legacy documents, where necessary, to enable publication
• Leading the development and day-to-day management of the Learning Legacy website working closely with the Digital Media and Content team
• Uploading and publishing content on the learning legacy website, and working with wider colleagues to promote its availability - across HS2, its supply chain and the wider industry
• Working with the Major Projects Association to surface HS2 Learning Legacy content in the Major Projects Knowledge Hub.
• Establishing and maintaining the Learning Legacy Ambassador programme for connecting learning legacy authors to industry partner events
• Developing/maintaining the relationships with industry partners for dissemination events, peer review and publications
• Working with the wider events team to plan and deliver a programme of industry-facing learning legacy events
• Supporting the Technical Papers Competition including Secretariat to the Technical Review Panel
• Developing a communications plan with the internal and external communications teams to generate engagement with the learning legacy both internally and externally, while raising the profile of HS2's learning legacy in the industry
• Adhering to HS2 Ltd's Health and Safety policies.
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About You:

Skills:

• Knowledge management skills, including the ability to effectively assess and communicate complex information
• Communications skills with an ability to work at all levels of an organisation, and build relationships with both internal stakeholders and external partners
• Editorial skills, including the ability to review and edit complex documentation and summarise key points articulately
• Organisational and project management skills
• Use of Microsoft office/365, SharePoint and WordPress
• Ability to use own initiative and work independently

Knowledge:

• Understanding the implementation of a programme of Learning Legacy and its continual development
• Knowledge of project management practice including time, cost and quality management
• Understanding of designing and developing innovative and interactive digital content

Type of experience:

• Experience of building relationships and working collaboratively with others
• Experience of working to deadlines and organising accordingly
• Experience of knowledge management and sharing programmes

Behavioural competencies :

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with HS2's

• Health and Safety strategy and principles
• Company values
• Leadership framework (line managers)

The post-holder is expected to behave at all times in a manner consistent with the HS2 values of Safety, Leadership, Integrity and Respect

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

As HS2 Ltd do not hold a sponsorship license from the Home Office, we are not able to provide sponsorship to any applicant. Applicants must already have the Right to Work in the UK at the time of application and our process involves a Right to Work validation prior to the interview stage. Note, there are certain types of time-bound visas that we cannot accept.

Any offers made to applicants will be subject to satisfactory completion of pre-employment checks which include Nationality & Immigration Status, employment references, DBS, Financial and Education checks.

We ask for a variety of detail in your online application, however we perform the first assessment of suitability for a role based solely on the information in your CV. In a further development of our efforts to create a more diverse workforce, your CV will be anonymised and personal information will be removed during the first stage of the application review. This removes bias from the process and makes it even more important that you attach an updated word version of your CV for each new application ensuring you include evidence directly related to the criteria in the job advert. Watch this video on how we remove bias in the recruitment process: Removing bias in the recruitment process - YouTube

Any applications received after the closing date will not be considered.

About Us

High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd will create a skills legacy and develop a diverse range of talent. We aim to be a leader in EDI practice by creating a safe & inclusive working environment for all our staff - living our values of Safety, Respect, Integrity and Leadership.

In practice, this means we are positive and inclusive about making adjustments, providing flexible working, encouraging our staff networks to flourish and providing personal and professional development opportunities.

HS2 Ltd is also a safety-critical organisation. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to our 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.

HS2 Ltd endeavours to ensure everyone working for us and with us feels included, thrives and achieves their full potential.