Kingswood Group are currently assisting a leading public sector organisation with the recruitment of a Leadership and Management Development Consultant for a period of approximately 6 months.
Working in the Chelmsford office, typically 1-2 days per week, the successful individual will be tasked to develop strategies to strengthen the leadership and management capabilities within the organisation.
The experienced Leadership and Management Development Consultant will combine a robust understanding of current and future leadership and management capabilities requirements, with the practical ability to design and deliver forward thinking innovative leadership and management programmes.
This role works collaboratively across People & Transformation maximising the contribution, value and credibility this practice makes throughout the organisation, both through own efforts and by supporting the activities of other teams.
Key duties:
- 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)
- 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 team, to support the delivery of the project, 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.
Ideal experience:
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to deliver at pace
- Significant technical expertise in Leadership and Management Development
- 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.