Head of Babcock Skills Academy

Job Title: Head of Babcock Skills Academy
Location: Plymouth / Remote
Compensation: £70,000 - £90,000 + Benefits Package
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF52919

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as the Head of Babcock Skills Academy at our Devonport site.

The Role
As the Head of Babcock Skills Academy, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be instrumental in ensuring our current and future workforce is capable of delivering client demands.

Day to day, you’ll work closely with the Group Head of Capability to run a programme that solidifies all elements of learning and development into an academy approach:

• Collaborate with HR and wider business
• Long term, strategic planning
• Enacting change within the business
Work with team to develop and deliver courses

Essential experience of the Head of Babcock Skills Academy:

• Previous experience of leading, designing and executing learning programs / academies
• Experience of implementing training related change programs
• Commercially and financially competent
• Ability to work with variety of stakeholders, including internationally
• Excellent communication skills

Full Time, based on a 37.5 hour week. Remote working available although must be willing to travel to a base location, preferably Plymouth.

Qualifications for the Head of Babcock Skills Academy:

• Degree qualified in relevant subject

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

Babcock International
For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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