Assistant Director – Organisational Learning & Development

Assistant Director – Organisational Learning & Development

Birmingham

12 month fixed-term contract

£70,755 - £77,190 pro rata

Ref: 1900003W

With Coventry City of Culture 2021 and the Commonwealth Games in 2022 the West Midlands is an exciting place for you to show your ability to embed leadership, transformation and change across our 10,500 strong workforce. We’ve started the journey, and you will be responsible for ensuring the force continues to develop and transform as a learning organisation that has the right leadership and values to police the wonderfully diverse communities of the West Midlands and support the delivery of WMP’s vision for 2020 and the Policing Vision 2025.

You will be accountable for transforming learning and development activity across both our uniform and Police Staff (non-uniform) workforce. This covers a broad spectrum including operational training of police officers, delivering our “Leadership Promise”* to everyone in the organisation, enhancing our performance and talent management approaches, implementing 70:20:10 learning model, creating a learning culture and improving internal customer experience.

This role is a member of the People and Organisation Development senior leadership team, so has a key role in creating and driving the delivery of our people strategy.  As part of this role, you will lead and manage a diverse team of learning, development and engagement professionals in a large, complex organisation. Diversity and Inclusion is a core objective of our organisation. The successful candidate will have experience of delivering talent and learning change whilst demonstrating their commitment to support and embed Diversity & Inclusion across the organisation.

This role will be working closely with internal leads for implementation of the Policing Education Qualifications Framework (PEQF)** which completely changes the way we recruit and train our police officers from April 2019; and the delivery of the Operational Learning and Development review to transform the learning culture within the organisation.

You will have significant knowledge of best practice, systems, technology and emerging trends in your field. You will have demonstrable examples of creating, transforming and leading organisation wide learning and development strategy, and of delivering complex projects.

About Us:

Here at West Midlands Police (WMP), we serve almost 2.8 million people – making us the second largest Police Force in England. We’re in the middle of radically overhauling all aspects of the business with WMP2020 - a modernisation plan that will change the way we operate.

WMP is a large and diverse organisation where you can develop your skills, knowledge and career in an encouraging and flexible environment.

We're able to offer you a comprehensive range of rewards and benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the option to purchase additional days
• access to a Corporate Health Cash Plan and wellbeing website
• modern working environment in central Birmingham and flexible/agile working
• the option to join a generous pension scheme

*You can find more information about Leadership Promise and People Deal here: https://peopledeal.west-midlands.police.uk/wp-content/uploads/iframe-sites/peopledeal-mobile/index.html

**You can find more information about PEQF on the College of Policing website: https://www.college.police.uk/What-we-do/Learning/Policing-Education-Qualifications-Framework/Pages/Policing-Education-Qualifications-Framework.aspx

Closing date: Midnight, 24 March 2019.

Interview date: Early April 2019.

To apply for this position please complete our online application form, please click on the 'apply' button.

Diversity and Inclusion Vision: “Maximise the potential of people from all backgrounds through a culture of fairness and inclusion to deliver the best service for our communities”