Organisational and Professional Development Partner - UOD357

The Talent and Development unit is a central service within the People directorate at the University, focused on interventions to support employee journeys. We are recruiting a People Partner (Development) to manage key programmes and pathways of talent development across the University, including management skills and induction. This role will be the institutional lead on mentoring and coaching programmes for all staff, maintaining existing structures, and developing new opportunities in response to shifting staff and organisational needs.

The key responsibilities for this role are:

• Design, deliver and evaluate a Management Skills Development Pathway
• Manage the end-to-end requirements of internal and cross-institutional Mentoring schemes
• Lead on central welcome and induction events and provide bespoke advice on local best practice
• Establish a Coaching scheme to support professional development

There is an expectation that you will be the team lead on these four streams of development, including having a robust management plan in place for them. This will include attendance monitoring, quality assura! nce, need s scoping, evaluation, data analysis, advertisement, planning and impact assessment. Your dedication to overseeing these critical development services will play a crucial role in demonstrating the overall success of the University's Talent and Development strategy.

A key requirement for this position is that you have solid, demonstratable experience in a directly comparable talent and development role. A coaching and/or mentoring qualification, or experience in running mentoring or coaching programmes is essential. Further specifications on your experience and qualifications are included in the full Job Description.

This is a very exciting, developing, and dynamic role for an established L&D professional to bring their energy and ideas to a highly reputable team. We are seeking someone with the drive and motivation not only to maintain the existing portfolio, but to establish excellent new opportunities that are able to be maintained and adaptable to shifting workplace patterns.

This is a campus-based role, we benefit from hybrid working with a requirement to be on campus a minimum of two days per week for delivery and team activities, with an expectation that you will spend more time on campus in the early stages of your induction.

We are one of the UK's leading universities-internationally recognised for our expertise across a range of disciplines and research breakthroughs in multiple areas, including science, medicine and engineering, amongst many others. Conveniently located on the banks of River Tay, our main city-centre campus is at the heart of Dundee- an up-and-coming, friendly, compact and affordable city with a rich heritage in design and technology. We also have campuses at Ninewells Hospital and in Kirkcaldy which are easily accessible via local transport Iinks.

The diversity of our staff and students helps to make the University of Dundee a UK university of choice for undergraduate, postgraduate and distance learning. Family friendly policies, staff networks for BME, Disabled and LGBT staff, membership of Athena SWAN, the ECU Race Equality Charter and Stonewall as well a full range of disability services, create an enjoyable and inclusive place to work.

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