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If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.
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The role
At Orbit, we are passionate about developing all our colleagues to ensure everyone can perform their job well and have an opportunity to develop to meet their aspirations. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team, partnering with the business shaping and growing our Learning and Development offering.
The Talent & Performance Team are in an exciting period of evolution as we enhance our learning offering. The key focus of this role is to develop and deliver learning programmes and initiatives that help colleagues understand how they can build a long-term and fulfilling career here at Orbit. Leveraging early careers programmes to qualify internal talent and bring in new external talent, as well as identifying opportunities for colleagues to grow personally and professionally utilising internal and external resources - this role is all about helping colleagues to grow with us, gain skills and tools and maximising our apprenticeship levy spend along the way.
This role is part of People and Strategy where you'll help us to build a culture and brand that people want to be part of.
This is a fixed term contract cover for an internal colleague that is ideally looking to start at the beginning of February - ending at the end of January. This role is known internally as the Career Progression & Early-Talent Lead.
Virtual interviews will be taking place on the 14th of January .
What you'll achieve
1. Facilitate the development, delivery and monitoring of consistent and high-quality apprenticeship, T-Level, graduate, intern and other work placement training programmes for Orbit.
2. Design support materials to ensure an easy and simple way for colleagues to understand what development opportunities are for them.
3. Managing Apprenticeship Levy c£k, to provide targeted and considered development opportunities across the business. Provide forecasts and analysis on spend/ budget and escalate for appropriate business decisions.
4. Create and deliver a clear and aligned plan for apprenticeships, T-Levels, graduate schemes and other work placement programmes that adds value and demonstrates opportunities to develop
5. Keeping up to date with industry best practice surrounding apprenticeships, T-Levels, work placement and graduate schemes to ensure that we are at the forefront of innovation and changing landscape of these types of programmes - make recommendations around those that fit our culture and aspirations for our colleagues
6. Monitor contracting partners to ensure that employment placement obligations are fulfilled and implemented using the agreed Orbit framework, escalating where necessary
7. Implement and facilitate a thriving Mentoring Programme, to support colleagues to develop and grow both internally and externally.
8. Working in partnership with Resourcing team to hire and onboard new starters for T-levels and other early careers programmes.
What you'll bring
Essential skills
9. Proven experience of working with training providers
10. Knowledge and experience of managing high quality assessment centres including training and leading a team of assessors through the process
11. Knowledge and experience of apprenticeship, traineeship and other work placement programme, including eligibility criteria, legislation, standards and funding criteria
12. Ability to coach effectively, deliver feedback and advise on appropriate initiatives as a credible L&D expert
13. A track record of creating and maintaining strong working relationships and working collaboratively with colleagues, both on-site and remotely
14. Driving licence and willingness to travel
Why Orbit?
Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.
Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.
A rewarding experience that works for you
We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.
A place to progress
From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.
For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.
A purpose to feel proud of
We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.
What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.
Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.
How we hire
We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:
15. Online application
16. Interview(s)
17. Decision and offer
We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.