Team Manager - Talent Development

Warwickshire County Council; Greet; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Agile working

Generous annual leave

Bank holidays + Christmas

Vivup discounts

Pension scheme

Job summary

Warwickshire County Council is seeking an experienced Team Manager, Talent Development to lead a broad portfolio within the Workforce Development Service. You will combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, guiding a team of ten and shaping development solutions across corporate learning, leadership programs and social care education.

The role encompasses line management, stakeholder engagement and ensuring learning opportunities align with organisational needs.

Qualifications

• Experience of leading teams and programmes of work.
• Experience of managing budgets.
• Fluency Duty: able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.
• Strong and inclusive leadership.
• Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinking and sound judgement.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across Talent Development.
• Line manage a team of ten colleagues.
• Shape effective development solutions to meet workforce needs.
• Oversee corporate learning, leadership development, apprenticeships, social care learning, coaching and digital learning.

Skills

Strong leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Team leadership

Budget management

Cross-organisation collaboration

Passion for learning

Job description

Are you passionate about developing people, building organisational capability and creating great learning and development opportunities? We are looking for an experienced and engaging leader to join Warwickshire County Council as Team Manager, Talent Development, providing maternity cover for up to 12 months. This is a broad and varied role at the heart of our Workforce Development Service. You will provide both strategic and operational leadership across a diverse Talent Development portfolio, including:

• corporate learning and development
• leadership and talent development
• career development apprenticeships
• social care learning, including pre-qualifying and post-qualifying Social Work education
• coaching and mentoring
• digital learning, e-learning and our Learning Hub

The post also has line management responsibility for a team of ten colleagues.

About the role

This is an exciting time to join the team. You will work with colleagues and leaders from across the Council to understand workforce needs, shape effective development solutions and ensure our learning offer supports both our people and the organisation. You will need to be comfortable balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery, leading a busy team and managing a varied portfolio of programmes and priorities., This is an opportunity to lead a talented team and take responsibility for a genuinely diverse portfolio, with the scope to make a tangible difference to the development of our workforce. You will join a supportive Workforce Development Service and work closely with colleagues across Workforce Services and the wider Council.

The Fluency Duty is outlined in the Code of Practice on the English language requirements for public sector workers. The Fluency Duty for this role is Required. You must be able to speak and provide advice in accurate spoken English to the public.

Key responsibilities and skills

• strong and inclusive leadership
• excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills
• strategic thinking and sound judgement
• experience of leading teams and programmes of work
• Experience of managing budgets
• an ability to work collaboratively across organisational boundaries
• a genuine passion for learning, development and organisational capability
• Working for Warwickshire - This is the difference you make

Warwickshire County Council is a place where everyone feels valued, included, safe, supported, and welcome. Our people are at the heart of this vision, could you be one of them! At Warwickshire County Council we are committed to ensuring Warwickshire's economy is vibrant and supported by the right jobs, training, skills and infrastructure. Our people vision for Warwickshire County Council is a great place to work where diverse and talented people are enabled to be their best.

Your future matters to us, we provide a generous pension scheme which includes an employer contribution rate of typically around 19 percent per month, to help support your financial security during retirement. The scheme also offers a valuable package of benefits for members and their dependants. To find out more please visit: Warwickshire Pension Fund homepage - Warwickshire Pension Fund'

Benefits

• agile working
• a valuable part of the pay and reward package for employees working in local government
• generous annual leave entitlement
• plus bank holidays and an additional day at Christmas
• access to Vivup benefits and discounts platform