JOB SUMMARY

The Leadership Capability Team’s key objective is to produce a compelling leadership offer to support the DWP strategic priorities. Particularly promoting team learning and leadership development where leaders coach, inspire and empower our people to deliver.
We are creating a Leadership Development Offer which will increase accessibility for all grades to enable them to develop core skills, provide talent development, and build personal and professional leadership behaviours. We are growing our community of leadership coaches so we can build leadership capability in a sustainable way.
We are seeking people who are flexible, with a passion for building capability at an organisation level, supporting individual learning and talent programmes, and supporting and leading others to ensure our Directorate continues to be a key enabler in maintaining the overall DWP Capability to deliver excellent service to the public.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a team that supports all colleagues to become great leaders and create a local working culture that will enable us to deliver our public services, and a team that:

• Demonstrates and role models changes in behaviour and culture that DWP require to support its transformation.
• Provides an opportunity to be part of and contribute to cutting edge learning development in the organisation.
• Offers HR professional growth opportunities, recognising the strength of each team member and the strengths of our team as a whole.
• Gives exposure to the latest leadership and insight research.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Leadership Capability Team requires someone with strong programme management and digital skills, with a passion to deliver to a high standard. You will be people focused with a supportive and collaborative nature.
You will possess a high degree of resilience and the ability to respond positively to the challenge of working across several fast-paced, wide-scale, multi-interest projects, with an interest in future planning.
Your personal qualities are as important as your professional background and development. You will be curious to understand why things happen, innovative, and able to identify and connect links and dependencies. Big picture thinking and comfort with ambiguity is as important as attention to detail. You will be passionate about making work engaging and meaningful for yourself, people around you and for the organisation as a whole.
This role will see you predominantly working within our Leadership Design discipline; however, the role will be flexible and may involve working within other areas of the Leadership Capability Team. This will support the team’s critical business priorities and the broader DWP capability agenda.

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) (opens in a new window)
• 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

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Effectively support multiple strands of work within the team – encompassing Project Management and Strategic Planning, - working closely with the Lead responsible for the Leadership Design discipline.
• Proactively manage a portfolio of work, driving and embedding a planning and performance culture into the Leadership Capability Team, whilst scanning the wider environment, connecting multiple threads for potential impacts on the leadership work programme.
• Be flexible, able to work at pace and multi-task, ensuring that you and your team have a balanced approach to recognising and managing priorities, seeing the bigger picture and making best use of time to deliver quality solution-oriented outputs promptly.
• Role model leadership by building effective relationships and collaborating with Programme Managers, Project Leads, Design Teams and other Stakeholders to support the various work strands you and your team are engaged with. Promoting inclusiveness and ensuring your needs and the needs of your team and others you work with are considered.
• Creative mindset, able to craft ideas into useable formats/design, demonstrating clear, effective communication skills (written and verbal) with a variety of stakeholders across multiple platforms including digital and face-to-face channels.
• High level of professionalism in all interactions whilst demonstrating the ability to handle confidential information with utmost discretion.
• Knowledge of accessibility requirements within Microsoft platforms, with the ability to research, write content and utilise Intranet Publishing skills to create, design and maintain the Leadership Capability Intranet sites and products.
• The role will potentially include Line Management responsibilities.