Strategic Learning Business Relationship lead (Band A)
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Job Title: Strategic Learning Business Relationship lead (Band A)
Salary: £69,161 to £79,882 plus a Location allowance of £1,721. You will receive £69,161 the band minimum. Progress to the band maximum of £79,882 will be via incremental progression.
Location: Hendon, Sidcup, Westminster
Job Purpose:
The strategic learning business partner works closely with our most senior police officers and directors who form the Met Executive to help resolve business problems by:
- identifying opportunities to improve organisational outcomes by using people and learning resources more effectively and efficiently
- commissioning new work within the Learning and Development in response to the needs of the business
- building organisational and learning capability in the relevant business area and using the insight gained from working with the Met Executive to inform longer term resource, training and learning partner relations, talent/leadership management and planning activity within Learning and Development’
There are a range of Learning Relationship Partner roles across the organisation which differ in size, complexity and scope – successful applicants will be matched according to skills and experience.
The key aspects of the role include:
- Providing business specific strategic, consultative services and advice to the MPS Executive (Deputy Assistant Commissioner, staff equivalent and above) relating to the education and learning change related issues impacting their business areas.
- Managing the relationships, supporting the individual needs of specific parts of the business. Pro-actively managing the tensions that can be anticipated between the needs of the local business area and the overarching corporate deployment plan.
- Owning and leading on the implementation of the Met’s Learning Strategy within the relevant functional area, working in close collaboration with the MPS Executive.
- Gathering and sharing intelligence on effective learning management practices and identify where improvements need to be made, so that Learning & Development services are continually improved.
- Being a valued advisor to the MPS Executive on implementing learning change and transformation. Providing guidance and insight reference managing risk via educational context. Helping and coaching Command Teams to deliver complex organisational learning change.
- Challenging senior leaders to implement a learning culture and modernise the organisation’s working practices and not merely to accept the established status quo.
- Maintaining an external focus to identify external trends and anticipate potential impacts on the MPS. Using benchmarking with a view to identifying sector wide best practice, identifying suitable external partners with which to collaborate to drive improved educational and learning within the MPS.
Please click on the below link to view an online candidate information pack that will you give you an insight into the Met, the competency framework we use which shapes our daily work behaviours, the application process and a host of other information, that will help inform and support your application:
https://sscl-innovation.com/MPScandidatepack/
Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).
Completed applications must be submitted by 17th April 2023.
We view diversity as fundamental to our success. To tackle today’s complex policing challenges, we need a workforce made up from all of London’s communities. Applications from across the community are therefore essential.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer the Met have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.
Essential for the Role, e.g. qualifications, licenses, languages, training
Skills and Knowledge:
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience of operating on peer-to-peer basis at Executive level - providing guidance, insight and advice across a broad range of business and change issues - not just those that are Learning & Development led.
- Energy and enthusiasm for changes and new ways of working with the ability to challenge the status quo through the use of initiative, creativity and innovative thinking.
- Ability to properly assess and anticipate risk and escalate as needed.
- An ability to recognise key dependencies and inter-dependencies within and across core Learning & Development activities.
- Able to grasp and interpret business strategy and the impact it has on the learning capacity and capability requirements for an organisation.
- Personal credibility and the ability to provide strong leadership, motivation and direction.
- Experience of advising, leading and negotiating at the executive level in relation to workforce education management i.e. planning, L&D processes, financial issues and communication with staff.
- Experience of using statistical and financial information in relation to business performance to influence strategic management decisions.
- A proven track record of managing high profile programmes of work; using risk management appropriately and planning and developing relationships with key stakeholders. Managing links and dependencies between complex and interrelated issues.
- Using consultancy skills and techniques that include: analysing, diagnosing, influencing and facilitation skills to identify opportunities for change to improve efficiency, effectiveness and performance.
- Exceptional time management and organisational skills and the ability to manage conflicting demands, resulting in timely, cost-effective delivery of desired outcomes.
- Proven oral and written communication skills that can adapt to different audiences, including the most senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience of environmental scanning to identify opportunities and threats for the business group.
- CIPD qualified (or similar accreditation) or relevant experience.
Additional Information
The ideal candidate(s) will also have experience of working in a corporate commissioning and shared service operating environment.
- We take ownership at level 3
- We are collaborative at level 3
- We support, deliver and inspire at level 3
- Professionalism
Disability Confident Statement
The Met is committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from ethnic minority groups and females.
As a Disability Confident employer, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations. If you consider yourself to have access, workplace or reasonable adjustment requirements that need to be accommodated, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence and will not affect any recruitment decisions.
Read our full disability confidence statement.
This opportunity is closed to applications.