People Development Consultant (12 Month Contract)

My client is a market leader in financial services distribution and is committed to helping their customers thrive in the post RDR world, whichever business model they choose to adopt. Their unique blend of over 20 years regulatory experience and business support makes them the number one choice for thousands of advisers nationwide and accountable for almost a quarter of the UK financial advice market

Purpose of the role:

The purpose of this role is to provide a range of co-ordination, training and consultancy duties for activities related to the overall People Development Strategy for the Group. To work with the People Development Manager to deliver an effective development strategy which strengthens and supports the capability of our people

Responsibilities:

•Implementing appropriate induction activities for new starters joining the group
•Design, delivery and evaluation of the internal Management Development Programme and look to develop this further to improve management capability
•Actively work with managers across the group to understand, design and delivery functional / departmental training requirements
•Invigilate examinations hosted at our online assessment centre
•Assist staff with choosing appropriate qualification routes and with the application for qualifications both functional and regulatory
•Design and delivery of talent development initiatives which look to maximise our potential and enable our employees to achieve their career aspirations
•Develop a suite of learning support material to assist managers with delivering system training to their new employees
•Providing coaching sessions and support for feeding back on 270 / 360 degree feedback report
•Identifying and planning for personal development interventions which exist across the group by using information gathered from the existing performance management framework
•Playing an active role in driving forward the communications strategy alongside the rest of the people development team
•Responsible for facilitating and leading the co-ordination of aspect of training / learning events which fall within your remit including, liaising with trainers on arrangements, resources, requirements, lunches, rooms settings etc
•Maintaining accurate records of training events including delegates who have attended
•Identifying, recommending and suggesting learning and development solutions for the companies employees and working with the People Development Manager to deliver fitting solutions
•Responsible for communicating with delegates as to where and when training events will be held and administering any associated work e.g. pre / post-course
•Responsible for making necessary amendments to training materials and as when requested
•Giving consideration to budgetary requirements and working with the People Development manager to plan the budget on an annual basis
•Being able to administer access to the company’s e-learning platforms
•Responsible for creating and updating processes up to date within our internal admin document (GEORGE)
•To undertake projects as and when required, to support the needs of the business or to achieve departmental objectives
Qualifications Required:

Essential:

•Certificate in training practice or equivalent training qualification

Desirable:

•Qualifications relating to psychometric profiling or models such as MBTI or similar
•Coaching or mentoring qualifications
•Diploma in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

Experience Required:

Essential:

•Delivery of the full learning cycle
•Delivering programmes using a blended learning approach
•Experience of delivering a range face to face classroom style courses relating to soft skills and management practices
•Experience of working in a pressurised and fast paced environment

Please note should you not receive a response to your application within 5 working days, please accept this as not been successful. Mpeople can not always respond due to the high volumes of CV’s received on a daily basis