Purpose of the Role

At Pathway Group, we know that our biggest asset is our people They represent us in everything they do. The purpose of the Talent Officer is to support the CEO and senior leaders in the recruitment, development, Training, and advancement of their teams, ensuring the right people are in the right roles at the right time. In addition, supports training needs and creates strategic solutions for improving skills across an entire company.

Talent Officers champion a companys efforts to attract, train, and keep the best employees. They focus on designing and implement programs for performance management, leadership development, employee assessment, and succession planning. Talent Officers work closely with an organisations leaders and human resources department to identify training needs and create strategic solutions for improving skills across an entire company. Outgoing people that love adult learning and organisational development can thrive in this role.

To enable you to provide this service efficiently, we expect you to:

• Lead on Recruitment Activity
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  Development Corporate Training Programs
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  Manage Orientation for New Employees & Contractors
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  Conduct Talent Assessments
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  Measure Overall Training Effectiveness

This will include you being involved in activities relating to:

Expected outcomes from activities and duties

Develop Corporate Training Programs

The primary job of a Talent Officer is to collaborate with their development team to design training programs. They work with senior leadership team to identify individual learning initiatives that facilitate employee development. Talent Officers make sure that key talent gets needed resources and information to effectively lead the organisation towards strategic goals. They ensure that leadership development happens at an appropriate level that meets the current and future needs of their company.

Design and Manage Recruitment Process

Ensuring that we hire the best talent is crucial for the success of the business. The Talent Officer will be responsible for designing a robust process involving managing external recruitment agencies, sifting CVs, setting up interviews and providing feedback to candidates

Manage Orientation for New Employees

Managing new hire orientation and onboarding experiences for new employees is an essential responsibility for Talent Officer. They assist in the creation of internal company career paths. The onboarding process they create helps to identify high potential individuals, determine work abilities, and professional support needed to engage and retain new talent.

Conduct Talent Assessments

Giving career and talent assessments to individuals is a common responsibility for Talent Officers. They utilise leadership development strategies, tools, and processes to identify learning needs and employee competencies. The results of talent assessments are then used to fill key skill gaps. Evaluating talent helps Talent Officers identify employee readiness, talent gaps, and retention risks.

Measure Overall Training Effectiveness

Establishing ways to measure the total effectiveness of all learning and development programs is a key responsibility of Talent Officers. They carefully monitor and report training data and statistics. After analysing this information, Talent Officers then focus on improving employee abilities and strengthening the skill set of a companys existing workforce.

Knowledge and Skills

Talent Officers should have a passion for developing employees and excellent communication skills. The following skills are essential to getting the job done:

• HR generalist skills Talent Officers often work with human resources departments to implement employee development strategies, so they should have some knowledge of this area
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  Collaborative leadership working with various leadership stakeholders to steer overall talent development strategies is an essential task for this role
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  Data analysis need the ability to collect, gather, and analyse data and present concise actionable results.
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  Program management oversee the delivery of employee development programs and manage multiple resources to achieve objectives.
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  Instructional development understanding adult learning methods and instructional design is essential for Talent Officers to create effective training materials.
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  Public speaking be able to clearly present on a wide variety of career related topics.
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  Communication skills building strong relationships is a must-have skill to connect with fellow leaders and employees.
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  Writing skills commonly synthesize their findings and publish written reports and training materials.
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  Organisational skills strong planning, organisational development, and problem-solving skills are essential to successful Talent Officers

Some final few words from our CEO

As a new team member not only must you have the knowledge and skills but also have the right mannerisms and attitude to be able to get along with us and help me to protect, support and grow the business in the best way for the business.

We should be able to have an effective working relationship that is professional and one that takes ownership and responsibility to ensure our people deliver performance and our intended outcomes. We expect the new team member to hit the ground running, be role model for others and have a clear understanding of how they will make a difference and contribute to supporting me and the business.