Senior Od Advisor

**About Us**:
**THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF DAPHNE’S INSIGHT**

People Services in Westminster City Council is a world of extraordinary stories, where passionate and expert professionals go above and beyond for their colleagues every day.

Daphne, our champion for people with learning difficulties, is a real beacon. She doesn’t just advocate for colleagues with these difficulties, she teaches managers how to identify and understand the conditions and support their teams at work. Daphne has an innate ability to see the human behind every situation, helping them capitalise on strengths and overcome challenges to be their very best. With her empathy and expertise, she’s a natural. But then, a lifetime of managing her own dyslexia and dyspraxia brings with it unique insight. Our people - and ultimately residents - benefit every day.

Please view the extraordinary story of Daphne’s Insight **here**.

**The Role**:
As our Senior Organisational Development Advisor, you can make your own powerful contribution to the employee experience at Westminster City Council - and in enhancing our organisational skills, you will help us deliver even better services to our local community.

Playing a vital role in shaping a culture of continuous learning, you will help us drive cultural transformation, and you will back the senior leadership team in delivering on their objectives by ensuring all colleagues have the skills they need to excel in their work.

Collaborating with industry experts and forming strategic partnerships, we will look to you to develop and deliver impactful and transformative learning and development programmes. If you identify a gap, through employee-centric needs assessments you will put measures in place to shape the relevant learning strategies. This will include using emerging technologies and the most cutting-edge learning methodologies to ensure all learning opportunities, so we will encourage you to explore the most interesting paths.

You will also champion a coaching and mentoring culture in which more experienced colleagues are keen to share expertise and develop a pipeline of future talent. Key to this will be your determination to work with our senior management team to develop leadership development pathways, and you will have the gravitas to get the right people on board in order to bring your most innovative ideas to fruition. In doing so, you will contribute to the organisational growth and success of an ambitious local authority who are unashamedly striving for excellence in all that we do.

Please refer to the **Job Description** for more information here.

**About You**:
This is a great role for a seasoned learning and development professional. With an innovative approach to every project that you undertake, you will combine great communication, negotiation and influencing skills with the ability to adapt your approach to a variety of audiences. Comfortable working in a fast-paced and high-profile environment, you will be ready to hit the ground running, so we're looking for somebody who can work at pace and make effective decisions that will ultimately contribute to our organisational culture and an even better employee experience. With the ability to use metrics to measure the success of your initiatives, you will be an analytical individual who has a deep knowledge of learning methodologies, performance consulting and all other facets of employee learning. You will therefore have around 10 years of experience in learning and development or organisational development, and you will have a track record in devising the strategic approach needed to help an organisation succeed in their goals.

**What We Offer**:
Westminster is an amazing place. We are home to more than 200,000 residents from all backgrounds, over 50,000 vibrant and vital businesses and three-quarters-of-a-million people work in Westminster. Westminster City Council’s strategy is to work towards a Fairer Westminster. A Fairer Westminster is one in which our communities are at the heart of our decision-making and help to determine the city’s future. By working directly with our communities and other partners, we can build a more inclusive city that celebrates our diverse communities, and where residents, workers and visitors from all backgrounds will feel welcome and safe.

As a forward-thinking Council we appreciate that people work in different ways, therefore our staff benefit from working a range of flexible working patterns as well as Agile working.