People and Capability Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 303241**Salary**:

- £25,661 - £31,003- London: £29,282 - £31,003 National: £25,661 - £27,422- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- DBT - Trading System: Export Control**Type of role**:

- Administration / Corporate Support
- Business Management and Improvement
- Education and Training
- International Trade**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Darlington, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) helps businesses export, drives inward and outward investment, negotiates market access and trade deals and champions free trade.

The Export Control and Sanctions Directorate (EC&S) is based in DBT and brings together operational and policy expertise from DBT with advisory teams from the Ministry of Defence and the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office. We regulate military and other sensitive exports such as dual-use items. This is done through a licensing system, ensuring UK exports are consistent with our national and international obligations and standards. We also own the policy on international trade sanctions.

The People and Capability Team, which this role is part of, plays a central role in ensuring that EC&S delivers its strategic and operational objectives effectively, armed with the right learning and development opportunities. This role is an exciting opportunity to be exposed to all areas of EC&S and the wider Department as well as exposure to senior leaders and stakeholders.

**Job description**:
Your main duties will be to:

- Manage the induction process for new starters to the team.
- Manage the people and capability arrangements for the team including developing ongoing training for all EC&S staff.
- Be proactive in supporting the leadership to drive improvement in the day-to-day ways of working and delivery of learning and development.
- Support the Head of People and Capability on actions agreed from People Survey/Pulse Survey.
- Work with EC&S to complete learner journey/career pathways and other training/development products for their teams in a way that is proportionate to the organisation’s needs.
- Act as a point of contact and have lead responsibility for disseminating information to the team from the centre and Human Resource Business Partners on health and wellbeing, Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Bullying, Harassment and Discrimination (BHD) policies and Learning and Development.
- Provide ad hoc support for the wider Business Management Team as required.

**Hybrid Working**

The role will be based in either Darlington or London.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Working arrangements will be available as agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills, good attention to detail, and be able to multi-task and work across multiple activities.
- Be a strong communicator, with excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Desirable Criteria**
- Experience of working in a People and Capability or L & D environment

**Personal Attributes & Skills**

You will be a confident and proactive individual with excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be comfortable working across a large business area, engaging positively to ensure objectives are delivered on time and to a high quality standard. You will be self-motivated, highly organised, and able to co-ordinate activity across the organisation. You will be collaborative and personable, building positive relationships -including with seniors. You will prioritise delivering a professional standard of service and support to your team and look to develop your skills and capabilities to support this.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Seeing the Big Picture
- Communicating and Influencing
- Managing a Quality Service
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £25,661, Department for Business and Trade contributes £6,928 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually