Learning and Development Partner – Maternity cover FTC 12 months

The Challenge:

Would you like to be at the heart of developing innovative and transformative ideas? Are you interested in being part of a team that identifies how space technology can address UK and global societal challenges? Do you want a L&D Partner position which will make a real difference? If so, you may be who we’re looking for!

We are currently seeking a L&D Partner to work with our People Team. Working collaboratively, you will play a pivotal role in implementing and evaluating learning and development programme that foster a culture of innovation and learning. Your focus will also be offering business partnering to People Managers across the business and provide guidance and support to optimise performance and development within our teams.

Reporting into Director of People and Organisational Design, this is a highly networked role that requires an ability to work under pressure and to challenging deadlines. It requires the individual to work closely with various stakeholders develop various learning activities and measure the impact of all learning initiatives. Location is flexible with our principal offices in Harwell Oxfordshire, the role requires the individual to travel to our Harwell office once a week.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain relationships across the organisation and collaborate with People Managers to understand their needs, challenges and opportunities.

• Provide proactive guidance and support to meet both individual and Organisational requirements around learning and development.

• Utilise your business knowledge and data-driven insights to develop targeted learning strategies and solutions with demonstrable ROI.

• Design engaging and experiential learning experiences for all learners that leverage innovative methodologies, such as design thinking, agile learning, and collaborative problem-solving.

• Continuously enhance our learning and development programs based on employees’ feedback, emerging trends and best practices in innovation and learning.

• Partner with People manager to support and advise on succession planning, team structures and employee relations issues.

Discreet deliverables for this 12-month appointment:

• Continue the implementation and deployment of Culture Amp, ensuring delivery of requirements to timelines and understanding and tackling any barriers to adoption.

• Maintain and manage the Learning Management System, producing reports on usage and uptake.

• Curate and design personalised learning and onboarding journeys as needed on the LMS.

• Create and deploy a communication and engagement strategy for Learning and Development.

• Support the Apprenticeship Programme.

• Develop Mentoring and Coaching programme.

• Develop a Job Shadowing activity.

• Organise activities and take responsibility for Learning at Work week 2024.

• Continuously enhance our learning programs based on employees’ feedback, emerging trends and best practices in innovation and learnin

Skills & Experience required:

•  You will understand and know to design and implement L&D Framework and a Learning Needs Analysis.

• Have experience with Learning Management Systems.

• Able to offer our employees and managers advice in a variety of situations.

• The ideal candidate will have Learning and Development experience (necessary) and Business Partnering experience (desirable).

• Desirable experience in a variety of HR topics such as resourcing, ER issues, compensation and benefits etc.

• Experience in working within a busy but small team, dealing with a variety of questions and a used to having varied workload.

• Ability to effectively prioritise and reprioritise based on nature of demands.

 Behaviours expected:

• Curiosity

• Continuous Improvement

• Decisive Thinking

• Skilled Influencer

• Collaborative

• Driven to deliver

• Attention to detail

• Flexibility and adaptability

• Courage to challenge

• Passion

• Customer focused with a strong track record of placing customer needs at the heart of decision making

• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills

 Qualifications:

• Not essential, but useful CIPD Level 5 in People Management.

• Not essential but desirable, knowledge in Insights Methodology.

 You know you have been successful when…

•  Culture of Learning and Development is embedded into our employee’s day to day.

• Development opportunities are recognised and maximised.

• Managers and employees are proactive in this space, enabled by the tools and capabilities you provide.

 The purpose of your new team:

The core focus of the People Team is to ensure our people are empowered, engaged and developed to work in Pioneering, Agile, Collaborative and Entrepreneurial ways to Innovate for a better World empowered by Space.

We do this by developing initiatives and providing services that support ‘moments that matter’ throughout a Catapultians journey here at the Catapult.

How we work:

We strive to create a high trust environment that enables team members to bring their

whole selves to work – this helps to create the foundations of an innovation culture.

Our shared values are critical to this:

• We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet

• We connect - and engage with people and ideas

• We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry

Underpinning this is our belief in great teams, our combined efforts will always deliver outcomes beyond that of any individual providing we are honest through debate, experiment and reflect, and create shared resolutions in support of our purpose. Live these values, work to our principles, take ownership to deliver, and we are certain you will thrive with us.

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