Government Recruitment Service
Location
Warrington, Cheshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Defra is the UK government department responsible for safeguarding our natural environment, supporting our world-leading food and farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy. Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.
Digital, Data and Technology Services (DDTS) is the trusted team for digital across the entire Defra Group.
We have around 1,200 colleagues across DDTS and our ambition is to make it easier and faster than ever for people to interact with Defra. If you are ready to drive innovation and push boundaries, we want to hear from you. Join us and together we will create a great place for living, and a green and healthy future for all.
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Do you want to enable Digital and IT professionals maximise their skills to excel in their roles to deliver services to the Defra Group and to the Public? Are you keen to provide leadership and motivate a talented team of Learning & Development (L&D) subject matter experts to deliver an excellent service? We are currently recruiting for a Capability Development Lead to give vision and leadership on all matters relating to L&D to enable Defra's Digital Data Technology Service (DDTS) to build capability across all its professions. The role holder will provide strategic capability, learning and development advice and support to staff, managers, teams and change programmes; facilitating a culture where professionalism is valued and staff have opportunities to develop careers. DDTS is a diverse Directorate with a range of technical specialists and capabilities, some of which are established while others that are innovative, new and developing. The role holder is required to support the needs of people that deliver a vast portfolio of systems, services and programmes across a range of Government and external professions such as Government Digital and Data, Programme and Project Management and Security. In addition, the organisation is currently undertaking a once in a generation Transformation, making this is a particularly interesting time for our Learning & Development team as we on-board new people, processes and technology. We are seeking an experienced and inspirational learning and development professional to use their expertise across all teams in DDTS to deliver a capability development service which influences staff performance, advises on improving capability and resilience, optimises talent management and leadership, health safety and wellbeing policies, diversity learning approaches, recruitment, retention and workforce planning. The role holder will drive their own work and their team to deliver strategic capability goals that contribute to the development and implementation of the Defra's Digital & Data Transformation Strategy, through working with stakeholders to deliver a service that is valued.Job tags
Salary
£52.12k - £64.38k per annum
