Overview
You will be working with managers and People Teams across the federation to ensure we invest in a high-skilled and diverse staff network by building and maintaining a culture of continuous learning. Putting in place learning initiatives and interventions to enable The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts (RSWT) to constantly evolve and develop as an organisation, and ensuring the diverse needs of our people are met is a key part of this role, so everyone can develop to be at their best.
Being part of our People and Culture Team and working with the wider Wildlife Trust People Team you will deliver our strategic objectives and feed into our overall organisational learning needs.
We know The Wildlife Trusts is a great place to work and volunteer and with your help we can further embed this view across the sector.
Responsibilities
* Manage the learning and organisational development function, including launching and embedding the competency framework and the new learning management system at RSWT and across the federation.
* Work in a fast-paced environment and communicate confidently to diverse audiences.
Working arrangements
Hybrid Working
Your normal place of work would be your home address and our office premises at The Kiln, Mather Road, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 1WT. The Kiln is open Tuesday - Thursday and should you be within easy commutable distance we would expect you to attend the office on a weekly basis. Should you be located further afield then we would ask you to attend at least once per month for team meetings. You will also be required to attend other locations across the UK with notice provided.
Diversity, safeguarding and inclusion
The Wildlife Trusts value passion, respect, trust, integrity, pragmatic activism and strength in diversity. Whilst we are passionate in promoting our aims, we are not judgmental and are inclusive. We particularly encourage applications from people who are underrepresented within our sector, including people from minority backgrounds and people with disabilities. We are committed to creating a movement that recognises and truly values individual differences and identities.
The Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and adults at risk. For applicable roles, applicants must be willing to undergo checks with past employers and Disclosure and Barring Service checks at the eligible level.
RSWT take our Safeguarding responsibilities extremely seriously. Please read our commitment statement. As a Disability Confident employer, we are committed to offering an interview to anyone with a disability that meets all the essential criteria for the post. Please let us know if you require any adjustments to make our recruitment process more accessible.
RSWT are committed to increasing the diversity of its staff through its Levelling the Field recruitment pledge and will put any ethnic minority applicants that meet all the essential criteria for the post through to the next stage of recruitment.
Additional notes
Please avoid using artificial intelligence tools to assist with completing the application form.
The Wildlife Trusts are a grassroots movement of people from diverse backgrounds, with over 944,000 members, 38,000+ volunteers, 3,600 staff and 600 trustees across 46 individual Wildlife Trusts. Each Trust is a place-based independent charity with its own legal identity, formed by groups of people working with others to make a positive difference to wildlife and future generations, starting where they live and work.
Every Wildlife Trust is part of The Wildlife Trusts federation and a corporate member of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts, a registered charity founded in 1912. Taken together this federation of charities is known as The Wildlife Trusts.
The next few years will be critical in determining what kind of world we all live in. We need to urgently reverse the loss of wildlife and put nature into recovery at scale to prevent climate and ecological disaster. This will require big, bold changes in how The Wildlife Trusts work, including how we mobilise others and support them to organise within their own communities.
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