People Development Manager
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Job Description
Salary: Base salary: £40.750-£50,950 depending on skills and experience. In addition, we offer flexible benefits fund of 20% 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 People Development Manager at HS2 you will develop the skills and capabilities within HS2 to ensure we develop confident and competent mangers and leaders and strengthen competencies across our critical capability areas, whilst ensuring we are compliant with all safety, legal and regulatory training requirements.
About the role:
Design, commission and deliver HS2's core learning offer - from mandatory training through to ELT/SLT development to support the delivery of strategic priorities
Project manage specific learning and development projects to meet agreed organisation and/ or Directorate needs
• Deliver the annual TNA process, partnering with directorates to identify and procure required, relevant learning materials aligned to priorities and ensuring they remain within the assigned budget constraints
• Maintain and deliver leadership and management development training, aligned to HS2's leadership framework
• Design & deliver the induction and onboarding process for all new hires within HS2 Ltd
• Identify and arrange Health & Safety, legal and regulatory training for employees
• Design and deliver tools, resources and interventions to support the development of high performing teams
• Develop and deliver competency frameworks for key capabilities, partnering with key directorates to oversee implementation
• Support the development of capabilities and learning pathways to ensure effective delivery of the programme
• Support key capability areas to set up Communities of Practice (COP)
• Support the design and delivery of Capability Development Programmes focusing on key capabilities such as: Project Management, Engineering, Integration and project controls
• Deliver required interventions to support Graduate and Apprenticeship Programmes • Support relevant capability Steering Groups
• Work with the MI and Data Analysts to maintain effective recording and reporting systems and processes for tracking, monitoring and evaluation of employee learning and development
• Keep up to date in latest thinking in blended learning solutions and use of technology and identify how to bring this knowledge to improve the HS2 L&D offer
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:
• Planning & organisation - the ability to plan and organise workloads to deliver on time and to the quality required
• Portfolio management - the ability to work programmatically to manage a broad portfolio of activities and interventions at any one time
• Communication Skills - the ability to communicate effectively at all levels using a range of methods including briefs, reports and presentations
• Content development & Facilitation Skills - the ability to design and deliver relevant and accessible materials and to deliver workshops and other development interventions
Knowledge:
• Knowledge of best practice, accessible development interventions including blended learning and accessible resources
• Knowledge of learning styles
Type of experience:
• Experience of designing and delivering a wide range of learning and development solutions using a range of methodologies
• Experience of designing and implementing competency frameworks
• Experience of developing and maintaining relationships with internal & external stakeholders including third party suppliers
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
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.
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.