View Vacancy - Regional Learning and Development Adviser for Warsaw (POL18.204)

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
Learning and Development

The Diplomatic Academy Regional Teams are based across the globe. We help provide solutions to the learning and development needs for the UK government overseas. We partner with posts and our colleagues in London to ensure learning is based on performance outcomes and aligned to UK government priorities. We work to ensure that learning activities are designed to best-practice L&D standards and based on solid research, that they are part of learning programmes that are effective in meeting their objectives, and that we are building learning cultures within the workplace.

We work at a fast pace with a high degree of autonomy. We need to be flexible and adept at dealing with change and ambiguity. We need to be skilful at working across cultures and resourceful to ensure we always deliver, even when we meet the unexpected!

The Europe team covers a lot of ground! We partner with more than 50 Posts (about 3500 staff), including some of the most important priority posts in the network. We are looking for a new L&D Adviser to focus on Business Partnering.

This requires an experienced L&D professional with strong consultancy skills (and a sense of humour) to partner with overseas posts and help develop, deliver and evaluate learning strategies that support performance outcomes and the development of learning cultures.

 

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Partner with overseas posts

  • Partner with senior stakeholders and team leaders to identify specific performance outcomes over a 6/12-month period. Help Posts to plan the learning strategy and solutions to meet those outcomes, drawing on all relevant resources, internal and external;
  • Provide a consultancy service to advise on developing a learning culture, empowering and supporting posts to devise their own learning solutions, signposting other L&D opportunities and proactively encouraging engagement with Diplomatic Academy content.

 

Partner with Learning Partners and global Diplomatic Academy team

  • Work with our Learning Partners to help ensure the right learning solutions are developed that meet the needs of the stakeholders, and that solutions are thoroughly evaluated;
  • Work with other Business Partners to ensure a consistent approach to business partnering across the network, that best-practice is shared, and there is a culture of continual improvement in our service;
  • Work with overseas Diplomatic Academy on various global projects;
  • Work with UK Diplomatic Academy team and other stakeholders as required.

Learning Facilitator

  • Facilitate learning sessions both remotely and face-to-face.
  • Excellent communications skills in both oral and written English;
  • At least 10 years experience in learning and development;
  • At least 5 years experience in a consultancy role;
  • Facilitation and presentation skills;
  • Communication skills.

  • Coaching skills.

31 May 2018
Higher Executive Officer (HEO)
Full-time, Fixed term, with possibility of renewal
37.5
Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Poland
Warsaw
British Embassy
PLN
11,462
2 July 2018

This is a full-time position of 5 days (37.5 net per week) for a two year fixed-term contract which may be extended by mutual agreement.

The monthly gross salary for this position is PLN 11,462. Working hours are flexible and staff are entitled to time-off-in-lieu for agreed extra hours worked. The annual leave entitlement is 20 or 26 days per year pro rata and the Embassy also enjoys a maximum of 14 Polish / UK public holidays per year.

Please note that staff members are responsible for paying any income tax required by the local law. Please be aware that the British Embassy in Warsaw will not be able to cover any costs connected with relocation.

The successful candidate will be subject to references check and satisfactory completion of a probationary period of three months.

Candidates must have pre-existing right to live and work in Poland for the duration of the job offer in order to apply. The British Embassy does not sponsor work permits.

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy in Warsaw are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to Polish employment law.

Please note that the deadline for applications is 23:55 on the day mentioned in the above field “Application deadline”.

We advise you to allow enough time to complete and submit your full application, since only applications completed and submitted before the deadline will be considered. Please be aware that the deadline for submitting applications is considered to be the time zone for the country where the vacancy has arisen.

Please be advised that the British Diplomatic Missions will not be able to meet the travel costs incurred when travelling to the interview, nor the costs connected with relocation if offered a job.

Please be aware that you will only be able to apply to vacancies for Country Based Staff roles with the British Government through this official tal.net site (operated by Oleeo). Jobs may be advertised on third party websites, however our adverts will always link back to the official tal.net site. If you complete and send an application through any other site, we will not receive it.

This opportunity is closed to applications.