Job Description

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Brief Description

We are looking for a Talent, Learning & Development Advisor for a Fixed term opportunity (full time) based in Milton Keynes. Managing the scheduling and operational delivery of key national coaching and development initiatives, allowing Regions and Functions across NR to effectively identify, develop and utilise talent. Creating and promoting talent management cycles and key dates/plans, including updating and managing processes to support efficient/effective access to national coaching and development programmes.

About the role (External)

This is an exciting time to join the Talent team, as the demand for our service grows across the business. You will have the opportunity to use your innovation and efficiency to deliver talent interventions including our National Coaching and Mentoring programme, Accelerated Leaders Programme and other talent development programmes.

You will be skilled in using data to drive decisions on talent programmes such as 360-degree-feedback and advise stakeholders on the best course of action based on these insights.

Your ability to build collaborative working relationships will help you co-ordinate our annual assessment process for high potential individuals, this will include working with business assessors and the talent team to ensure the efficient delivery of assessment centres in tight timeframes. Your collaborative skills will also help you meet the needs of internal stakeholders and work alongside external suppliers to ensure we meet our KPIs and service level agreements.

There are lots of opportunities for you to make your mark and you will have the ability to shape our evaluation strategy for each of our development initiatives to ensure they meet the needs of stakeholders and contribute to our overall strategy.

Effective communication and engagement of our development initiatives is fundamental to delivering our talent strategy and you will be instrumental in working with our communications colleagues to plan and create collateral, raising the visibility of our initiatives and increasing access to for all.

What essential skills and experiences are required?

You will ideally have a background in Talent or Learning and Development in a complex organisation, supported by a CIPD qualification to demonstrate your experience of managing development initiatives and understanding of best practice in this area. You will also be experienced in creating evaluation processes to measure the return of investment for our development initiatives.

Collaboration skills are essential in this role, as you will need to work with established stakeholders and proactively seek to build relationships with new stakeholders to deliver our services.

With a balance of face to face and virtual activities your ability to work and deliver virtually, with customer service at the heart of everything you do, will be vital as this will ensure the effective management of virtual assessment and development programmes for large numbers of people.

Your exceptional project management skills will ensure that you are able to work across the talent team on multiple timebound projects, and your stakeholder management skills will ensure their needs are met in a timely manner as well.

For a full list of the key accountabilities and the essential/desirable criteria, please click apply and you will be redirected to the Network Rail external website where you will find the dedicated job description for this post.

How to apply (External)

Duration: Fixed Term, full time opportunity (this role has been advertised externally)

Location: The Quadrant: Milton Keynes. For roles based in the Quadrant: MK, you must live within 90 minutes of The Quadrant

Closing date: 27th August 2023. Late applications will not be accepted.

Interviews: Interviews will be held W/c 11th September 2023 (The date is dependent on business requirements)

Band & Salary: Band 4B: \xc2\xa335,582 - \xc2\xa340,029 per annum, (dependent upon experience) Plus a range of family friendly benefits including (but not limited to):

\xf0\x9f\x8c\x9e Generous annual leave (28 days plus statutory days), with the option to buy/sell days.

Defined benefit pension scheme

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\xf0\x9f\x8c\x8d Flexible/hybrid working arrangements.

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What does our recruitment process look like? [remove/amend if not applicable] * Once you have applied, our Recruitment Specialist will look at your CV.

• If your experience matches what we\'re looking for, you\'ll be invited to an interview /or complete a first interview using xxx a video interviewing platform, you can complete your interview anytime that works for you. /or complete an assessment.
• If you ace your video interview/or assessment, you\'ll be invited to face to face interview with the hiring manager.

Drugs and Alcohol Standard:

Our Drugs and Alcohol Standard is changing as of 16.01.2023. All prospective candidates who have not been offered a conditional role by 16.01.2023 will be required to undergo and pass a drugs and alcohol test. Your application will be rescinded if you record a positive test. All positive drugs and alcohol test results for prospective candidates will be securely held on database and a 5 year suspension from applying for a safety critical role, a role which requires PTS certification or a Key Safety role on Network Rail Managed Infrastructure will be enforced.

We\'re an inclusive employer of choice, Disability Confident Leader employer, encourage people to work flexibly and we welcome applications from everyone.

If you have any questions about this role or if you have an HR related questions or require any reasonable adjustments/modifications, please contact IREC Support (Irecsupport@networkrail.co.uk) . You must have the vacancy/IREC number ready as you will be asked for this.

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