JOB SUMMARY

Government Skills (GS), part of Government People Group, was created in 2020 to improve the coherence and quality of learning and development in government through better training, knowledge and networks.
The aim was to accelerate the development of the skills, knowledge and networks of all civil servants, reaching across the wider public sector and delivering better public services for citizens across the country.
This is an exciting period of growth for Government Skills as we build the capacity and capability of the team to enable us to move to a new operating model, to transition the externally-delivered training components toward internal delivery.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Government Skills is transforming the way learning and development operates, to enable Civil Servants to develop the skills and experience they need to deliver great public services and support the Government to deliver the Plan for Change. This includes developing a more targeted curriculum so people know what they need to learn and can find it easily, and reducing our reliance on externally purchased training.
A major part of the new skills model is putting in place operational and physical infrastructure that will allow the civil service to design and deliver more training itself and to make better use of the government’s estate for training.
This role will lead on designing, sourcing and running the new infrastructure using funding that has been secured as part of the Spending Review.
There are two major elements to the role: setting up the operational infrastructure to support effective internal design, delivery and evaluation of learning and development and; establishing a network of training venues that make best use of available Government estate.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

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)
• 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

Human Resources
Operational Delivery
Senior leadership