Job Description

Role Purpose:

This role will provide consultancy and expertise to develop and deliver internal Skills & Development programmes and strategies that enhance technical performance and build organisational capability.

The key to this role is in developing strong relationships with key stakeholders, gaining a deep understanding of their aims and objectives and working with them to co-create impactful capability development solutions.

By being innovative and challenging the norm through disruptive thinking this role will leverage informal, social, digital and formal learning to meet the needs of the client groups.

Key Accountabilities: * Develop and implement a capability development framework to meet the future capability requirements of QinetiQ UK sectors

• Lead the development and creation of technical skills pathways, including the creation of delivery models to upskill or reskill QinetiQ employees
• Leveraging the 70:20:10 methodology - utilising blended informal and formal methods of learning to maximise impact, including but not limited to; social learning, creating communities of practice, on the job training, knowledge sharing, action learning, delivering coaching interventions (including team coaching), mentoring, simulations, digital learning, facilitator delivered workshops (face to face and virtual) etc.
• Develop and implement a strategic approach to the design of Skills & Development interventions to improve technical performance
• Develop strong relationships internally in order to identify ongoing strategic requirements and deliver fit for purpose development requirements to meet desired outcomes.
• Collaborate with internal customers to create capability development plans linked to defined business benefits
• Utilising external partnerships, research and experience, bring innovation and thought leadership to the technical teams and drive development interventions.
• Working with the UKS&D Manager & Coaching and Leadership Lead to support the design and delivery of any leadership/talent development interventions across QinetiQ
• Maturing the UK technical competency frameworks to help map skills gaps/development needs and talent requirements

Key Capabilites/Knowledge

• Have knowledge of the full development cycle including needs analysis, assessment, design and delivery of large scale development interventions and evaluation.
• Be able to design and deliver a range of blended informal and formal development solutions
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, acting as a strategic partner on development and performance
• Proven project and programme management skills
• Ability to constructively challenge and influence colleagues (where appropriate) to alter solution design or commercial offering.

Experience and Qualifications:

• You will be an experienced L&D professional who is can evidence working with stakeholders to develop learning solutions.
• Extensive experience designing and delivering development programmes
• Experience of managing projects and partnering with senior stakeholders preferably within an Engineering or Technology environment.

Locations: Selected UK

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there\'s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You\'ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you\'ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture .

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits. You\'ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what\'s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.

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