Job Title: Leadership and Learning Specialist (L&D training delivery)Location: Kent Fire and Rescue Service Headquarters, The Godlands, Straw Mill Hill, Tovil, Maidstone (with a hybrid working model being available)Salary: Grade 7: £40,523 - £46,008 per annumHours: 37 Hours (Full-Time) permanentRef: VR1276Being a part of Kent Fire and Rescue ServiceEveryone is unique. Everyone has value. Everyone helps to make Kent Fire and Rescue Service a great place to work. We are one team. Together with our customers we are creating a safer future for Kent and Medway.Being a Leadership and Learning SpecialistAn exciting opportunity has arisen for a Leadership and Learning Specialist to deliver our leadership and management development solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering a range of different learning and development solutions across Kent Fire and Rescue Service. Working alongside other members of the Leadership and Learning Team, you will be developing our colleagues’ skills, knowledge and behaviours using a wide range of programmes and technology-based solutions.What you’ll do
Be responsible for the delivery and rollout of our leadership programmes.
Develop and deliver a range of online resources to support line managers in Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
Join a small team to help develop the future leadership pipeline and talent management processes.
Work with other subject matter experts to scope out requirements and design and deliver appropriate solutions to support continuous improvement and develop our people.
Provide coaching and mentoring at all levels of the organisation.
Ensure that inclusion is designed into all of our leadership and learning programmes.
What you’ll bring
Practical knowledge and experience of applying leadership and management development.
Skills in facilitation and training delivery to engage and motivate our learners to embed their new knowledge and skills.
Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills to work with subject matter experts in identifying needs and solutions.
Experience in supporting allied teams in delivering compelling blended training and support material. This includes larger programmes and bite-sized, just-in-time resources.
Skills in using MS Office products to plan, design and develop your work, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and MS Teams, and SharePoint Online to create toolkits on the intranet.
Skills in delivering training using a variety of media (e.g. videos, webinars, live online classrooms)
Practical application of the learning cycle, including needs analysis, design, development, implementation, evaluation and iteration.
Benefits
Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme
Generous annual leave entitlement
Blue Light Card discount scheme
A range of family friendly policies including promoting work-life balance
Access to health and wellbeing services and advice
Access to LinkedIn Learning online training
How to applyPlease complete an online application and CV by midnight on 2nd June 2024.If you are shortlisted, please note you will be required to provide a briefing paper on a key organisational challenge that you will be invited to discuss at interview.We reserve the right to close this vacancy upon receiving a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this role we recommend that you submit your application at the earliest opportunity.Interviews will take place on 17th and 19th June 2024.Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. We know that great minds don’t think alike, so we rely on diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to create the best working environment that we can possibly offer.Kent Fire and Rescue Service, its employees and volunteers, are committed to safeguarding, protecting and supporting children, young people and adults at risk. As part of our safer recruitment process, we will undertake pre-employment checks to verify your suitability for the role. These checks will include your references and a standard or enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. Enhanced DBS check with barred lists are carried out for roles with direct and unsupervised access to children, young people and adults at risk. Risk assessments will be undertaken on any disclosures identified as part of the pre-employment checks.As a Public Sector organisation with added responsibilities under the Equality Act, 2010 the candidate must demonstrate an understanding of what is meant by Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and how this fits in with their everyday work.
