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Senior Workforce Development Manager

  • Permanent role: £50,000 annual salary.
  • Location: Office-based at 25 Wilton Road, London, SW1V 1LW with hybrid flexibility (office attendance 1-2 times per week).
  • Working hours: Minimum 35 hours/week, standard 09:00-17:00, Mon-Fri, with flexible working options available.
  • Annual leave: 25 days, increasing by one day per year of service (max 30 days), plus public and bank holidays.
  • WorldSkills UK offers a maximum employer’s contribution to your pension of 6% of your basic salary, on the condition that you make an employee contribution to your pension of at least 3%.
  • Group Death in Service (Life insurance) 3 x annual salary.
  • Health Care Cash plan

The Centre of Excellence is WorldSkills UK’s flagship programme, dedicated to transforming the quality of teaching, learning, and assessment across Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET). This pioneering programme drives innovation and raises standards by delivering world-class training and development opportunities for educators, ultimately enhancing outcomes for learners and ensuring the UK’s global competitiveness in skills excellence.

As Senior Workforce Development Manager, you will lead the programme management of the Centre of Excellence, playing a pivotal role in advancing its mission. You’ll oversee a growing network of member institutions committed to achieving excellence by integrating international expertise and best practices from around the globe. Your leadership will ensure the Centre of Excellence influences every aspect of teaching, learning, and assessment, setting new benchmarks that elevate the quality of education across the sector.

Closing date for applications is midday, Thursday 28 November 2024

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Inclusive and diverse working environment

As an employer we are committed to creating a truly inclusive, diverse and collaborative working environment starting at the beginning of our employee lifecycle, from the moment we open a recruitment process. We strive to recruit, develop and retain a talented, dedicated, enthusiastic and supportive workforce that is truly representative of our society as a whole.

Some of the ways in which we do this include:

  • having an executive senior sponsor responsible for equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I)

  • measuring and reporting on our performance on equity, diversity and inclusion at every stage of the recruitment process

  • adopting a blind approach to our recruitment processes where candidate information, that may create conscious or unconscious bias, is removed

  • having as diverse as possible shortlisting and interview panels

  • offering and making reasonable adjustments at all stages of the recruitment process

  • ensuring all applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria are guaranteed and interview.

Our culture

We understand the importance of providing an open and supportive work environment and culture in which all our staff can succeed. As part of this we have a Wellbeing Team with trained mental health first aiders who offer support and signposting to staff wellbeing resources, including regular wellbeing sessions, helping to reduce the stigma around mental health and encouraging our staff to bring their whole selves to work.

We also recognise that having engaged teams is critical to our organisational, team and personal success. Ways in which we ensure our staff team remain engaged and ensure their voice is included are by carrying out regular pulse staff surveys, annual ED&I staff surveys and having a Staff Council with representatives from each team across the organisation.

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