Head of Personal and Professional Learning
1 day ago
**Details**:
**Reference number**:
190066
**Salary**:
£85,000
**Grade**:
SCS Pay Band 1
**Contract type**:
Permanent
**Business area**:
DWP - People and Capability
**Type of role**:
Human Resources
Senior leadership
**Working pattern**:
Flexible working, Full-time
**Number of posts**:
1
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Location
Blackpool, Cardiff, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Sheffield
About the job
**Summary**:
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) touches every citizen in the country at some point in their life.
As the UK government’s largest public service provider, we support people into work, help disabled people live more independent lives, improve housing and tackle homelessness, provide the financial foundation for a secure old age through the State Pension, and ensure children of separated parents have more opportunity to fulfil their potential through a better child maintenance system.
We employ over 91,000 people in varied roles, from delivering services to citizens in communities across the country, to developing policy to tackle some of the biggest strategic questions of the age.
We are passionate about making a sustainable and positive impact to people’s lives every day by providing a modern, fair and affordable welfare system. We seek to be an exemplar of the Modern Civil Service so that we can better deliver for citizens and meet the challenges of tomorrow.
**Job description**:
The People, Capability and Place Group (PCandP) is accountable for enabling DWP to be a flexible, inclusive and continuously learning organisation, delivering the right people with the right skills in the right place at the right time to meet business and customer needs.
The Capability, Learning and Talent Directorate (CLT) is both strategic and very delivery focussed, accountable for learning (technical, professional and transferable), capability, leadership development, apprenticeships and talent. It is at the heart of enabling DWP to meet its demanding priorities in the short, medium and longer term.
CLT has developed and launched a DWP wide Capability Strategy, setting out a vision: to achieve a culture of continuous learning and inclusivity to enable us to build flexible skillsets and respond to our ever-changing context.
The Head of Personal and Professional Learning leads three teams and 100 people responsible for learning and capability in the professional, personal and leadership spaces. This is both strategic and delivery focussed, offering an opportunity to share accountability for the evolution and implementation of the Department’s Capability Strategy.
The role reaches across the Department and Government with successful delivery achieved through the mobilisation of networks of stakeholders and multi-disciplinary teams as well as the wider PC&P leadership team.
**Responsibilities**:
- Leadership of a large and complex team of c.100 people, providing strategic direction, and ensuring high performance through an empowering and inclusive leadership approach.
- Building a strong network of stakeholder relationships, within and across DWP in addition to cross-Civil Service relationships. Working collaboratively with the Government, Skills and Curriculum Unit to both shape and enable the strategic response to the Declaration on Government Reform.
- Providing thought leadership in terms of strategic direction and delivery model for capability and learning, supporting the Director for CLT.
- Accountable for delivery against DWP’s Capability Strategy, ensuring there is a clear implementation and evaluation plan, communications, reporting and enabling activity.
- Accountable for the delivery of a range of capability interventions: skills assessment, building digital confidence and capability, induction and additional capability projects to meet business need.
- Delivering and developing a Centre of Expertise for professional capability, specifically supporting the Digital, Finance and HR professions.
- Accountable for leadership development in DWP, providing a core offer in addition to tailored approaches building on deep leadership and coaching expertise, to support business need and the successful delivery of change programmes.
- Ensuring the work of the capability and learning teams is aligned to the activity of the wider PCandP function, and has a clear place in the operating model.
- Understanding and securing the digital support needed to deliver a modern capability and learning offer.
- Oversight of supplier relationships and the management of the central learning budget and relevant commercial relationships.
- Managing financial resources of c£9m ensuring return on investment and value for money across capability and learning activity.
- Experience in the HR function, demonstrating breadth of HR experience and/or depth of capability and learning expertise.
- Experience of leading professional HR teams; of building capability across teams and ensuring productive, collaborative and inc
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