Learning and Development Partner

Tfgm; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Hybrid working

Free travel within Greater Manchester

Rail/Metrolink travel to work

LGPS pension with life cover

Learning and development fee reimburse

Health and wellbeing support

Job summary

TfGM is seeking a Learning and Development Partner to diagnose learning needs, shape demand, and design, deliver, and evaluate effective learning solutions. You will work closely with managers, HR Business Partners, OD colleagues, and other People specialists to improve capability, performance, and colleague experience.

Depending on grade, you may lead leadership development, strategic capability programmes, talent development, supplier management, and learning evaluation.

Qualifications

• Experience diagnosing learning needs and designing learning solutions.
• Ability to coordinate learning programmes or projects.
• Evidence-led approach to improving capability and performance.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose learning and capability needs, shape demand, and design, commission, deliver and evaluate learning solutions.
• Collaborate with managers, HR Business Partners, and OD colleagues to drive capability improvements.

Skills

L&D experience

Facilitation

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Job description

Your Role

As a Learning and Development Partner, you’ll diagnose learning and capability needs, shape demand, and design, commission, deliver, and evaluate learning solutions. You’ll work closely with managers, HR Business Partners, Organisational Development colleagues, and other People specialists, using evidence and insight to improve capability, performance, and colleague experience.

Depending on career-grade level, you’ll also contribute to or lead leadership and management development, strategic capability programmes, talent and succession development, supplier management, learning evaluation, and continuous improvement. Facilitation is an important part of the role, including delivering high-quality development for TfGM managers and aspiring managers

For more info see Job Profile below.

Who are we?

You’ll be part of TfGM’s Learning & Development Centre of Excellence within the People directorate, working alongside Organisational Development, HR Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition and Inclusion, Early Careers, engagement, and other specialist teams.

Our work connects learning with organisational capability, talent and career development, leadership and management development, colleague engagement, and the wider priorities of TfGM. The role gives you the opportunity to work with stakeholders ranging from individual learners and managers through to Heads of Service and senior leaders, alongside external learning and development partners.

What you’ll bring

You’ll have relevant L&D, capability, training, or closely related experience in a complex organisation with experience of analysing learning needs, designing accessible learning solutions, facilitating learning and coordinating programmes or projects. You’ll be confident working collaboratively with stakeholders and using data, feedback, and evaluation to improve learning.

TfGM’s Deliver, Care, and Adapt behaviours should be reflected through an evidence-led and outcome-focused approach, inclusive and accessible practice, effective collaboration, sound judgement, clear communication and the ability to respond constructively to changing demands.

What we can offer you

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday per annum (plus bank holidays)
• Flexible and hybrid working options to promote and support a good work/life balance
• Free bus travel within Greater Manchester and free Rail or Metrolink travel to and from work within the Greater Manchester boundary
• Local Government Defined Benefit Pension Scheme which includes life cover of 3x your salary and options to increase your pension contributions
• Commitment to learning and personal development and upskilling with reimbursement of professional fees, where essential to the role
• We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to staff via our employee assistance programme when required

This is a permanent role and comes with a salary of £43,335 - £48,087per annum depending on experience

What's next?

Our shortlisting process is anonymised, so please do not include your name or contact details on your CV. If any personal details are included these will be visible to the hiring manager.

TfGM is proud to be an equal opportunities employer that encourages and celebrates diversity. We want to recruit and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and welcome individuals from all backgrounds by committing to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. We will offer support and reasonable adjustments if required and we also have a Guaranteed Assessment Scheme which you can find out more information on here.

For this opportunity, you must be able to prove you have the right to work in the UK - if in doubt please visit the following link Employers' right to work checklist - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk). Please note we are not a licensed sponsor.

Please note we may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.