Grade: Band E Lower

Salary: £40,719 to £44,787

Closing Date: 20th November 2019

  About the role:  

Are you an experienced Learning and Development specialist? Are you able to work in a fast paced environment and still maintain quality? Are you passionate about designing and delivering learning and development interventions to a wide range of colleagues? Most importantly do you want to join us in making a real difference to policing in the West Midlands?

If your answer is yes then you will be interested in finding out more about the Development & Performance Team. We are part of the People and Organisation Development Department and focused on delivering innovative learning and development interventions to colleagues across the force. We design and deliver leadership, management, talent and personal development programmes available to uniformed and police staff colleagues, accredited coaching and mentoring opportunities, supporting effective performance management and through the team’s accredited practitioners, administer a range of psychometric tools to ensure all colleagues deliver the best possible service internally but also to the community of the West Midlands.

  You will already be a successful, credible and established L & D Professional with a strong underpinning knowledge in Organisational Development to support your practice. It would be advantageous if you are a subject matter expert in two or more of the following areas:

• Performance Management & Talent Management
• Senior Leadership Development
• Coaching & Mentoring
• Induction and On boarding
• CPD and designing curated CPD content
• Diversity and Inclusion programme design and delivery
• Management Development

The roles will see you being a subject matter expert in one or more of the above but we are particularly interested in professionals with expertise and experience in Performance Management, Talent Management and Diversity and Inclusion programme design and delivery.

Success is something we are all passionate about as well as providing a first class portfolio service to colleagues in force. There are lots of opportunities to learn, develop personally and professionally and we looking for someone to add to the innovation and creativity already in the team.

If your interest has been piqued and you’re excited by this opportunity, please apply.

Please be aware we are advertising two permanent roles - one full-time and one 0.66 Pro-rata;  the second role is currently been reviewed to become a 1.0 FTE but will not be confirmed until January 2020

Closing date: Wednesday 20^th November 

Shortlisting: Friday 29^th November | Interviews: Friday 6^th December 2019

West Midlands Police are currently undertaking a long term review of staff pay and conditions.  The grade, pay and other terms of employment are therefore subject to review and may change in the future.    West Midlands Police is a Disability Confident Leader - the highest level an organisation can achieve under the scheme run by the Department of Work and Pensions.  As part of our commitment we operate a Guaranteed Interview Scheme - all candidates who declare a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be guaranteed an interview.