POD Trainer - People and Organisational Development

Position Details

People and Organisational Development

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £30,942 to £40,322, with potential progression once in post to £42,792

Grade 7

Full Time FTC until 29 February 2024

Closing date 15 January 2021

Job Summary

A fantastic opportunity for an experienced trainer to work in a leading Russell Group university. Working in a proactive POD team, you will design, deliver and evaluate a mix of programmes to staff throughout the University. To apply for this role, it is essential you have experience of both the design and delivery of training programmes.

Main Duties

• Assisting with design of University-wide learning and development interventions
• Designing interventions such as team-building events
• Delivering the POD core suite of programmes
• Promoting the use of on-line learning
• Assisting with evaluation of the POD programme
• Coaching colleagues on a 1-1 and group basis

Person Specification

The POD trainer will have the following combined experience and personal qualities:

Qualifications

• A degree or equivalent
• A relevant professional qualification in training e.g. PG Cert, C&G trainer or CIPD training element.
• Ideally an ILM certificate or diploma in Management at level 3.
• Ideally, coaching accreditation by a recognised body e.g. ILM7
• Ideally qualifications in one or two psychometric instruments e.g. MBTI

Essential

• Experienced trainer who can deliver a wide range of different leadership, management and interpersonal interventions
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including political astuteness, tact and diplomacy
• A relevant training qualification or equivalent
• An understanding of the whole learning and development cycle
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Experience of coaching, preferably qualified
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills
• A high degree of initiative, personal judgement, resourcefulness, resilience, flexibility and a self-motivating approach
• Enthusiasm and willingness to meet challenging and sometimes competing demands

Desirable

• CIPD member or equivalent professional body
• Qualified to BPS Test User: Occupational, Personality: MBTI practitioner

Skills and Experience

• Experienced trainer who can deliver a wide range of different interventions
• Basic understanding of the whole learning and development cycle, including needs analysis and evaluation.
• Able to get the detail right, ensuring that all interventions are delivered to the highest standard, working closely with the POD administration team.
• Coaching skills, with an ability to work at middle / senior management levels across with academic related and academic staff.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Experience of working in a team of L&D/OD professionals, knowing how best to contribute to the general direction of the team, while retaining full responsibility for one's own interventions.
• Able to exercise discretion and tact in dealing with matters of a highly confidential nature.
• Good IT skills, and an ability to learn new IT software, to help enhance the quality of POD's delivery.
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills.
• An ability to multi-task and manage priorities.
• A good team worker with the ability to work effectively with staff at different levels of the organisation.

Personal Characteristics

• An understanding of and demonstrable curiosity for both higher education and learning and development.
• A willingness to learn from other experienced team members and a strong desire to continuous professional development.
• A high degree of initiative, personal judgement, resourcefulness, resilience, flexibility and self-organised.
• The ability to balance the demands of longer term versus short term demands. The ability to take direction on complex tasks as required.
• Enthusiasm and willingness to meet challenging and competing demands.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including political astuteness, tact and diplomacy.

Capabilities

Strategic Thinking and Perspective

• Demonstrates understanding of the factors in higher education impacting on the University and applies this to own work.
• Organisational Understanding
  
  
  • Demonstrates understanding of how the University operates and a sensitivity to its political and organisational priorities, and applies this to own work.
  • Communication
    
    Working Collaboratively
    Performance and Resource Management
    
    Relationships
    
    The POD trainer will work with a range of people, including:
    Uses a range of communication skills and strategies to gain commitment to action or change.
    • Displays awareness of own impact and tact and diplomacy.
    • The ability to work confidently with senior members of the University and to communicate effectively with all levels of staff.
    • Demonstrates collaborative working, builds open, trusting and effective partnerships.
    • Promotes knowledge sharing, assistance to others and constructive challenge as appropriate.
    • Actively manages programmes of work to achieve quality standards and targets.
    • Ensures priorities are balanced, taking appropriate action to keep things on track.
    • POD colleagues
    • AD- POD
    • Director of HR
    • HRLT / HRMT
    • Other members of the HR team
    • Academic and professional staff across the University
    • External suppliers e.g. ILM

Informal enquires to Paul Compton, email: p.n.compton@bham.ac.uk

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