Planning Officer

4 weeks ago


West Midlands, United Kingdom West Midlands Police Full time

**Job Title-Planning Officer**

**LPU/Dept**:Learning and Development**

**Band**:Band C Lower (Grade 4)**

**Salary: £24,552 to £27,690**

**Closing Date-22nd September 2023**

An opportunity has arisen for a Planning Officer in the Learning Support team, based at Tally Ho.

The purpose of the role is to ensure that Learning and Development courses are planned efficiently and timely with the appropriate resources to maximise training opportunities provided to officers and staff within West Midlands Police.

**Main Purpose of the Role**:
You will manage the allocation of courses in line with Force requirements, allocating appropriate resources to planned learning and development events using process supported systems. In addition, you will ensure records are maintained and relevant systems updated accurately and in a timely manner to ensure organisational resilience and in order to enable management information to be provided.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Plan and create events using relevant computer systems to facilitate necessary learning, e.g. Learning and Development Planner (LDP).
- Manage the allocation of course places in line with Force requirements.
- Produce quarterly and yearly plans in line with L&D delivery strategy.
- Facilitate fortnightly planning meetings to review resourcing, planning and future demand.
- Allocate appropriate resources to planned learning and development events using supported systems
- To allocate, book and monitor enrolments within their area of responsibility and update abstractions on the duty management system.
- Once planned take responsibility for all courses to ensure all resources are booked and all courses are viable to run with full enrolments to achieve maximum efficiency.
- To assist audits to ensure high standards of customer service.
- Ensure records are maintained and relevant systems are updated.

**Knowledge & Experience**

**Essential**
- Must be computer literate
- Excellent IT skills in Windows-based operations including: Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Availability to use searching tools.
- Collate, analyse and update data.

**Desirable**
- Customer service experience
- Previous experience of working in a planning
- Ability to use relevant areas of:

- LDP (Learning and Development Plan)
- Blackboard
- CX Portal
- MyTime

**Skills**
- communication skills including verbal and written
- Excellent interpersonal and organisational skills.
- Ability to prioritise work load and work to tight deadlines
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to develop effective working relationships

**Vetting**

Successful applicants will be required to pass Recruitment Vetting prior to commencing their role, this will include a full background & financial disclosure as part of the vetting process.

**Medical (Non-Operational)**

Appointment to this role will be dependent upon successfully medical checks, which may include a drugs test and if required a fitness test.

**Location**

The role will be based at Tally-Ho Police Training College, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

**Hours Of Work**

Core hours of work are Monday to Friday 0800 x 1600, however we do have a flexible working scheme.

**About Us**

West Midlands Police is England’s second largest police force. Together we serve the 2.9 million people who call the region home - one of the youngest and most diverse populations in Europe.

The shared **vision** of our 12,500 officers, staff and volunteers is to be recognised as a police service that is big enough to cope with everything that is asked of us, while showing we are small enough to care about the things that really matter to people.

This vision is built on three **strategic priorities**:

- A service that works for local people
- Engaged communities
- Employer of choice

We will achieve each of these goals to enable us fulfil our **mission** of working in partnership, making communities safer.

These are the **values** which guide all of our actions and decision making:

- Service - we put people first
- Integrity - we always do the right thing
- Compassion - we see the person needing help
- Professionalism - we lead by good example
- Equality, Diversity and Human Rights - we treat everyone fairly

Successful applicants will be required to pass management **vetting and security** clearance scrutiny prior to starting their role. This includes a full background & financial disclosure.


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