Learning and Development Officer United Kingdom
Job description
Permanent, Full Time Role.
This is an exciting time to be joining the Development and Alumni Engagement Team (DAE) at the University of Warwick. We’re entering the early planning stages of a new major philanthropic campaign, which will significantly scale the ambition for the University’s fundraising and engagement activity. To enable the campaign, have created a new team under the Head of Campaign Planning and Performance, along with additional roles across data and insight, alumni engagement, philanthropy and donor relations.
To support the team in this expansion, we’re looking for a new Learning and Development Officer, to help enhance our team culture by creating development opportunities for our team.
In this role you will plan, create and deliver learning and development opportunities that enable performance and retention across the team. You will work closely with the senior leadership team and line managers to ensure inductions, training and development opportunities support DAE in delivering our objectives.
As a team, we have a major role to play in helping break down barriers to education and advancing research addressing some of our planet's biggest challenges.
Our alumni and donor community creates lasting value in society and the economy through supporting students, research and facilities at Warwick.
With the objectives of increasing the active engagement of our alumni, students and staff communities and raising new and transformative funds in support of the University’s strategic philanthropic priorities, there is an enormous impact to be made.
If this sounds like a good team to be a part of, and an exciting challenge, then I look forward to meeting with you. Andrea Crowley, Deputy Director (Alumni and Supporter Engagement).
To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact: [email protected]
We know that attracting the highest quality staff is fundamental to achieving our aims. We’re committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection practice is professional, fair and effective. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/socialinclusion
To apply please complete the application form and provide a CV and covering letter which clearly sets out how you meet the essential and desirable criteria as highlighted in the person specification. Please note your application will not be considered if the covering letter is not provided.
Interview date: 8 June 2023.
Job Description
To plan, create and deliver learning and development opportunities that enable performance and retention within the Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) team.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
1. To provide DAE team members with appropriate and cost-effective learning and development solutions including identifying, co-ordinating, designing, commissioning, advising on and/or delivering essential personal, technical, specialist, and induction training, as well as ongoing development, management and leadership opportunities.
2. To design, develop and deliver training materials, ensuring eLearning and blended approaches are utilised as far as possible to ensure cost effective and sustainable delivery. Ensuring the programme supports diverse learning requirements and styles.
3. Working with the senior leadership team and line managers to ensure provision is appropriate and covers the required skills knowledge and behaviours that support the delivery of departmental and University objectives. Working collaboratively across the department to define and agree priorities and timely delivery.
4. To support DAE project work aligned to development and talent agendas. To work with colleagues to support, co-ordinate and contribute to department wide organisational development events and activities such as recruitment campaigns, team meetings, aways days, conferences, and staff inductions. Ensure professional organisation and analyse and respond to feedback to enhance effectiveness.
5. To oversee the cost-effective delivery of an agreed programme of development and report on spend against plan and budget. Ensuring the collection and reporting of completion and impact data. To identify and propose external providers to deliver development opportunities and to commission agreed suppliers in line with University guidelines on procurement etc.
6. To identify, map, design and deliver all supporting training for DAE processes, to include associated performance and development processes.
7. To ensure all information relating to training needs, delivery and development and career/talent conversations is captured and, work with colleagues, to align recording processes to the functionality of the university processes. Ensuring the production of timely and accurate learning and development reports to monitor delivery and progress against targets, highlighting areas of concern, participant feedback and recommending appropriate action.
Undertake any other duties within the scope of the role and its grade as directed by the Line Manager
Uphold the Development and Alumni Engagement Team values:
- Making a difference.
- Collaboration.
- Being solution focused.
- Having a passion for learning.
For further information about the University of Warwick, please read our University Further Particulars.
For further information about the department, please visit the department website
Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.
We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpages here.
The University of Warwick holds an Athena SWAN Silver award; a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. Further information about the work of the University in relation to Athena SWAN can be found at the following link: Athena Swan (warwick.ac.uk)
The University of Warwick is one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University alliance, whose aim is to become by 2025 an open, multicultural, confederated operation of connected campuses.
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Benefits and Rewards
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