Leadership and Management Development Consultant
- 6 month contract
- £500 - £550 per day
- Location: Chelmsford
- Working Arrangement: Hybrid - Please note that the requirement to attend our Chelmsford based offices will be on a business needs basis but typically 1-2 times per week.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Leadership and Management Development Consultant to join a well established organisation in Essex on a 6 month contract, hybrid basis.
Accountabilities
- Lead the design and implementation of leadership and management development solutions, to ensure they are future-focused, relevant, innovative, cost effective and aligned to functional business plans.
- Responsible for externally procuring, as appropriate, the design and delivery of specific programs, providing the necessary contract management and quality assurance.
- Deliver agreed leadership and management development solutions (e.g. specific events). This may include executive coaching, facilitation, delivery of highly energised workshops, or consultancy advice to ODP and/or other teams in the organisation to identify tailored solutions.
- Supports the implementation of our Talent development strategy, ensuring the Talent needs identified across the organisation are properly addressed through our leadership & management development initiatives.
- Responsible for establishing robust leadership and management development impact measurement for any of the programs/initiatives designed and implemented, able to utilise people insights and evidence of impact on performance (individual and organisational).
- Explore and develop collaborative approaches to strengthening leadership and management capabilities across the wider Essex County, to support the delivery of the Essex Vision, developing key partnerships when appropriate.
- Work collaboratively across People & Transformation to build an aligned and relevant service for the organisation. To work in close collaboration with the People Business Partnering teams to support the design and implementation of cross-cutting programs.
- Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework through engagement in professional supervision.
The Experience you will bring;
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to deliver at pace
- Significant technical expertise in Leadership and Management Development (from executive development to entry level positions), balanced with an ability to pragmatically execute relevant programmes.
- Proven ability to solve complex problems, conduct research/break new ground, develop new applications and provide expert support for other practitioners.
- Sound expertise in designing and applying impact evaluation to leadership and management development programs, with a bias towards evidence-based practice and use of people insight to design interventions.
- Practical experience in learning and business needs consulting, able to guide stakeholders through a shared and collaborative decision making process, working at all levels within a matrix organisation.
- Confident facilitation and delivery of workshops, events or development interventions, with the ability to create engaging content.
- Strong diagnostic, problem solving, and analytical skills; ability to think strategically.
- Ability to focus on critical issues to balance and respond to competing priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex projects that cut across multiple services and teams, from inception through completion.
- Coaching qualification desirable