People Development Assistant

An exciting opportunity to join our dynamic People Development team based at the Town Hall.

The Role

As the new People Development Assistant, you will fulfil an integral role within the team.  Undertaking a varied range of duties and administrative tasks supporting the Council’s People Development function. You will be involved in the design, delivery, needs analysis, evaluation, and monitoring of training and development needs and solutions, while also providing comprehensive administrative support. Your efforts will contribute to, and influence, improved performance in the workplace at an individual, team and organisational level.

Your primary activities will include:

• Arranging the booking of trainers, venues, travel, accommodation and facilities for training events.
• Producing and maintaining accurate records of learning and development activity across the Council as outlined in the People Service Delivery Plan.
• Monitoring and collating training attendance and evaluation forms, creating statistics as needed.
• Ensuring staff attend internal and external learning events to meet statutory requirements and the aims of the Council’s People Strategy.
• Communicating course requirements with trainers, facilities, learners and external suppliers with agreed timelines.
• Maintaining and update the corporate Job Evaluation database.
• Monitoring and recording the Council’s career grade records including collating and submitting progression applications for approval by the People Development Manager.
• Supporting the People Development Manager in collating data and statistics to generate reports in preparation for the Local Government Reorganisation.
• Managing and updating the training and development calendar.
• Maintaining online forms and intranet pages, reviewing, updating and publishing content as necessary.

For an informal discussion regarding this opportunity, please contact Marcia Fuller, People Development Manager, on 01255 686316.

For further information, please see the job description and person specification.