Learning & Development Advisor (6-Month Contract)

Our benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About the role

Are you passionate about developing people, building leadership capability, and making a real impact?

We're looking for an experienced Learning & Development Advisor to join our team on a 6-month contract, working 2-3 days per week, to support the delivery of our Leadership & Management Development Pathway and wider workforce development priorities.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead and support our Leadership & Management Development Pathway, designing and delivering engaging learning programmes, coaching and mentoring managers, and helping to build the skills, confidence and behaviours that enable leaders to thrive.

You'll bring proven experience of designing, delivering and evaluating leadership and management development programmes, alongside a passion for learning, organisational development and continuous improvement.

If you're someone who enjoys creating innovative learning experiences, influencing positive change, and seeing people reach their full potential, we'd love to hear from you.

What will you be doing?

• Deliver on our new Leadership and Management programmes.
• Support the design, delivery and continuous improvement of our Leadership & Management Development Pathway.
• Lead on evaluating the impact of our Leadership and Management Pathways 
• Monitor performance, quality and outcomes to ensure learning activities deliver measurable results.
• Coach, mentor and support colleagues on the Leadership and Management Programmes.

About you

You are an experienced learning and development professional who is passionate about helping people grow and achieve their potential. 

You'll bring proven experience of designing, delivering and evaluating leadership and management development programmes, alongside a passion for learning, organisational development and continuous improvement.

You'll be confident facilitating learning with a range of audiences, able to build credibility quickly and skilled at creating development solutions that are both practical and impactful. You'll bring strong communication skills, a collaborative approach and a genuine curiosity about new ways of learning.

Ideally, you'll hold a recognised learning and development qualification, such as CIPD Level 5 or equivalent, and have experience of blended learning design, learning needs analysis and evaluating learning effectiveness. Most importantly, you'll be someone who is committed to continuous improvement and excited by the opportunity to shape the future development of our people. 

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.  

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

Armed Forces Community 

The council obtained the Gold status award for the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS).

Further information can be found at Jobs and careers | North Northamptonshire Council (northnorthants.gov.uk)