Leadership and Engagement Consultant

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

- 253942**Salary**:

- £56,530**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- MOD - Head Office & Corporate Services - Defence People Team, HR Directorate**Type of role**:

- Human Resources**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
- MOD Main Building, Whitehall, London. SW1A 2HBAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Do you want to be part of something big in Defence? Do you enjoy working collaboratively and believe in the difference that great leadership can make? Then this role may be for you

The Leadership and Engagement Consultant will put in place high impact strategies that upskill our leaders and shape productive behaviours that empower, enable and engage teams to deliver our purpose: to protect the nation and help it to proposer.

Reporting to the Head of Leadership, Culture and Engagement within the HR Directorate, this important role manages the centre of expertise for civilian leadership. In this large organisation you will be required to partner and collaborate across the Defence enterprise and wider government, working with senior colleagues and stakeholders.

The Leadership, Culture and Engagement team form part of a wider Civilian HR group (LEAD) that also have responsibilities for talent, SCS management, learning and capability building.

The core purpose of this role is to:

- Deliver on our evolving leadership and engagement strategy, with ample opportunity to shape it, so that we strengthen our leadership.
- Bring together key delivery partnerships (for example, Armed Forces colleagues, the Defence Leadership Centre, and Government Skills and Curriculum Unit) to improve leadership capability.
- Ensure Defence uses the most contemporary leadership theory and practise systemically, nurturing a community of practice.

There will be ample chance to define your role. You will work with many stakeholders at every layer and have a particular responsibility for bringing the Executive Committee’s ambition for whole force leadership to life. Strong mentoring and facilitation skills will add additional value.

We offer a safe, supportive environment with plenty of room for our people to develop as HR professionals.

Great teams come together to provide each other with support and growth so the team is based together at our London office in Whitehall, where many of our key stakeholders are also based. However, we embrace hybrid and other flexible working approaches and empower our people to shape a work-life balance that’s right for them and the department.

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

**Job description**:

- Line management of one Leadership and Engagement Associate.
- Leading evolution of a Leadership Strategy and associated annual delivery plan, outlining key priority areas and success measures for leadership capability building.
- Assessing the impact of interventions and continuously improving what the team and its partners deliver.
- Embedding the Civil Service Leadership in Action framework as a standard for leadership behaviours.
- Using relevant data sources to determine leadership capability gaps. Facilitate the development of group and local level initiatives - helping best practice spread across Defence.
- Developing mechanisms to support leaders’ growth related to self-awareness. This includes developing and launching a new 360 leadership feedback tool and enabling self-directed and peer-to-peer learning.
- Launching and embedding leadership forums and networks that enable leaders to utilise the collective intelligence of the organisation to solve challenges at the local and strategic level.
- Leading the planning and delivery of leadership events for Defence senior leaders including bi-annual conferences for the senior leadership community across Defence (civilian and military).
- Working in partnership with strategic workforce planning and learning providers (Defence Academy, Government Campus) to develop a leadership learning pathway that supports the development of current and future leaders.
- Working collaboratively with the rest of the team in developing and maturing a Leadership, Culture and Engagement strategic plan. Acting as a team player to transform the approach to Leadership and Engagement in Defence through ad-hoc projects the directorate’s management decides to take forward.
- Actively contributing to making the HR Directorate a great place to work for everyone.

This role profile is not exhaustive. It is intended as an outline indication of the areas of responsibility and may be amended in light of the changing needs of the organisation.

**Person specification**:

- Experience of successfully delivering leadership interventions on time and to budget in a complex environment, using a range of facilitation methods (which may include fa