74907 - Learning Lead

The national salary is £51,767 - £59,590, London salary is £55,720 - £64,135. Your salary will be dependent on your base location
1
12 Months
National
National
NATIONAL
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Grade 7
Grade 7
Permanent
Full Time, Part Time, Flexible Working
Administration / Corporate Support, Other, Digital

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Learning Lead

Location: National*

Interviews: Expected week commencing 12 June 2023

Grade: Grade 7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:               

London: £55,720 - £64,135

National: £51,767 - £59,590

Working pattern: Full time, Part time and Flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 74907

*We are currently offering hybrid working which includes 2 days per week in your local office. Office locations can be found HERE

The Role

We’re recruiting for a Learning Lead here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Technology Adoption Group.

We are looking for someone creative and innovative with excellent management and communication skills and great attention to detail. The successful candidate will be someone with great leadership skills who is serious about delivering high quality learning and development content.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Justice Digital Strategy

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leading on design and delivery of courses and ad-hoc events.
  • Lead and develop a team of learning specialists
  • Grow and develop expertise in the team, ensuring that the team is at the forefront of knowledge in the appropriate areas.
  • Planning and execution of digital learning needs in line with MoJ objectives
  • Work closely with key stakeholders to identify knowledge gaps with digital tools at the MoJ
  • End-to-end management of digital learning needs and data analysis
  • Build a good rapport with key stakeholders across the MoJ
  • Work closely with digital teams to help identify potential challenges that may impact how end users adopt to digital tools
  • Support the Change Lead with change projects
  • Be the expert in the room for your programme elements: researching, diagnosing issues and developing, designing and delivering bespoke learning interventions to ensure capacity and capability stretch for delegates.
  • Sourcing, booking, briefing and ongoing relationship management with industry experts and subject matter experts.
  • Horizon scanning for best practice in the learning field, ensuring the programme content and delivery is cutting edge, applying this learning to programme delivery and evaluating its impact.
  • Own the process of feedback, proactively suggesting and implementing changes and new innovations.
  • Be confident in being a critical friend of Digital and Technology programmes / projects and to challenge assumptions to the benefit of end users
  • Ongoing support during events across the programmes team.
  • Procurement (writing statements of requirements).
  • People development and management Duties where applicable.
  • Develop, implement, promote, maintain and measure a consultative service to provide best practice L&D advice and guidance, working with different teams in the business to design key learning interventions as required.

If this feels like an exciting opportunity, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Benefits

  • 37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours.
  • We are committed to nurturing our staff and provide lots of training and development opportunities with learning platforms such as: Linux Academy, O’Reilly, Pluralsight, Microsoft Learning, Civil Service Learning
  • 10% dedicated time to learning and development with a budget of £1000 a year per person
  • Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 26-30% depending on salary.
  • 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings’ birthday.
  • 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service.
  • Option to buy or sell annual leave
  • Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
  • Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app.
  • Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Careers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT
  • Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
  • Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers.
  • 5 days volunteering paid leave.
  • Free membership to BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.
  • Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.

Person Specification:

Essential skills:

  • Previous experience designing and delivering high quality learning intervention Digital Products and a wide range of learning artefacts
  • Previous experience of leading a learning team to support adoption of new, Technology, Digital and policy related digital services
  • A strong and current understanding of Microsoft 365, especially Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Power Platform (power applications) and Sharepoint.
  • Experience with implementing digital tools within an organisation
  • Experience of designing and developing learning interventions for various user groups, including senior leaders.
  • Previous experience working on a national scale with good experience of work across government
  • Ability to build rapport and relationships with people at all levels of the organisation and external providers.
  • Collaborative approach, with demonstrated capacity to co-design learning content with others, and to work with others to achieve team success.
  • The ability lead a team through a general brief, user feedback or concept to autonomously create first class learning content, as well as be comfortable starting new initiatives or projects from the beginning.
  • The ability to develop, design and deliver learning interventions for in house built digital products and services.
  • A good understanding of equality of opportunity and diversity.
  • Ability to deal with difficult and sensitive situations in a diplomatic and professional manner.
  • Ability to work under pressure and flexibly in order to meet a varied, wide ranging and demanding workload which is often time-critical.
  • Effective organisational skills, ability to prioritise and delegate.
  • Be inquisitive about new technologies and how they can be used effectively across the organisation.
  • Proficient in data analysis and data etiquette
  • Experience with the implementation of digital tools
  • Project management

Desirable skills:

  • Previous experience working within a public sector or local government organisations (e.g. Emergency Services, Healthcare, Education etc.).
  • Experience of creating e-learning and training videos.
  • Understanding of Gsuite.
  • Understanding of MacOS.
  • Understanding of other collaborating tools such as Zoom & Slack.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate on the basis of culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

How to Apply:

Candidates must submit a CV and Personal Statement (Up to 750 words) which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Digital, Data and Technology Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Delivery at Pace
  • Making Effective Decisions

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
 
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on desirable skills will be conducted prior to the sift.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out the way we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

01/06/2023, 23:55 hours.

If you require any assistance please call 0345 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com Please quote the job reference - 74907.

To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why. 

For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).

If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:

  • You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
  • You were studying abroad
  • You were living overseas with parents

In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.

Success Profiles will enable a fairer and more inclusive method of recruitment by enabling us to assess the range of experiences, abilities, strengths, behaviours and technical/professional skills required for different roles. This flexible approach to recruitment focuses more on finding the right candidate for the specific role. To find out more about Success Profiles to support your application please click here for further guidance.

if you feel that your application has not been treated in line with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance

We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.


Application form stage assessments

Interview stage assessments

There is 1 interview stage for this vacancy.

A Great Place to Work for Veterans

The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

Redeployment Interview Scheme

Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.

MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.

For further information and to apply for this position please see the following link: https://app.jobvite.com/j?cj=oNvgnfwF&s=Civil_Service_jobs.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

· UK nationals

· nationals of the Republic of Ireland

· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families

· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

This Vacancy is closed to applications.