Leadership Development Manager

CR239

Our client works with people in the world’s poorest countries to provide access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.

Job Purpose:
To develop talent management strategies across the organisation and to support line managers in their implementation. The role has a particular emphasis on management and leadership development

1.        Lead in developing their overall learning and development strategy.

2.        Specify, design, procure and deliver development programmes focused on building leadership and management capacity globally, in order to build organisational and individual capability.

3.        Lead on the organisation’s overall monitoring of return on learning and development investment. Monitor expenditure across the core management and leadership development budget.

4.        Facilitate the identification of key behaviours and competencies to build a culture that reflects their values and enables the delivery of their strategy.

5.        Support Directors and Senior managers in an annual review of management performance and potential in order to inform succession planning and development plans.

6.        Provide advice and specialist expertise to country based HR managers (including in the UK) on learning and development strategies and interventions and on external sources of support to managers and individuals as required.

7.        As a senior member of the HR team, contribute to the development of the overall people management strategies in line with the organisation’s strategic objectives and values.

8.        Develop succession planning and career development tools.

9.        Support the development of performance management systems to help managers to ensure that staff receive meaningful, actionable feedback on their performance and effective personal development plans.

10.        Identify and develop new sources of talent including exploring graduate schemes, internships, secondment arrangements etc.

11.        Ensure that talent management strategies and tools enable them to maximise on the diversity of its people.

£40-47k

London

Person specification:

•        Substantial experience of specifying, procuring, designing, delivering and evaluating learning and development programmes, with particular emphasis on leadership and management development programmes.

•        Excellent strategic thinking and awareness.

•        An innovator.

•        Good awareness of the latest trends in learning and development and particularly leadership and management development.

•        Experience of leading and managing others.

•        Appreciation of cultural differences and of the difference this makes to management and leadership styles and learning styles.

•        Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

•        Self confidence and sound judgement. Able to influence senior managers and be seen as a credible source of advice and feedback.

•        Good coaching and mentoring skills with an approach that builds capacity rather than dependency.

•        Flexible and resourceful.

•        A team player, able to work in a collaborative way.

•        Commitment to their values and a working style that demonstrates these.

•        Willing and able to travel overseas around 4 - 6 times per year.

•        Chartered Membership of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development would be desirable.

Please send in a CV with covering letter quoting reference CR239 explaining how your background and experience matches what is being requested in the person specification to:
applications@skillsforcauses.com

Closing date: 11 July 2008