Scottish Water Hiring for Learning & Talent Partner – People Team Campaign Job at Glasgow, Scotland Full Time

Together we are Trusted to Serve Scotland.

Join us as we create our future story

Scotland’s water is essential to life – it’s one of our most precious natural resources. You can be part of our evolving future story as we face the challenges of climate change, its impact on the environment and our vital services. Join us to support a flourishing Scotland now and into the future.

As a highly successful organisation, owned by the people of Scotland, we are entering into an exciting period of transformation. We will ensure we deliver excellent service, value to our customers and our NetZero ambitions. Our people are bold, responsible, caring and inspiring and we need to grow our team to embark on our future story.

Join our People Team – Transforming Scottish Water

We are offering a range of exciting opportunities to join our award-winning People team. You will receive a warm welcome into our fast paced, dynamic, collaborative, and friendly team. We have a selection of roles available, and we value and welcome a diversity of talent.

If you have a desire to be part of our future story and success, and have the expertise, experience, ambition, and drive to make a big impact, we would love to hear from you.

We have roles in each of our 5 main teams:
1. Policy, Reward and Employee Relations
2. Learning. Resourcing and Organisational Development
3. Internal Communications
4. Employee Experience
5. People Systems, Processes & Analytics

Learning, Resourcing and Organisational Development covers 4 main areas:
1. Strategic Resourcing

2. Skills and Competency Development

3. Learning and Development

4. Leadership and Talent

The purpose of our area is to attract, recruit, identify, develop and deploy the talent Scottish Water will need to both perform and transform. Our team does this by equipping leaders with the skills, knowledge and attributes to ‘lead with character’ and developing our talented people to reach their full potential.

Information Evening

We are having a virtual information evening for our People Team Recruitment Campaign – at 19:00-20:00 on Tuesday 30 November 2021. Please check our Scottish Water recruitment social media channels on Linked In, Facebook and Twitter for details nearer the time.

The Role

Our Learning and Talent Partner is a senior level role, the purpose of which is t o work closely with our senior leaders on talent identification and deployment, leadership development and our organisational learning strategies.

Job responsibilities may include:

• Working with leadership teams to help them lead our transformation and our journey to become a learning organisation

• Collaborating with leadership teams to embed our cultural characteristics

• Using data and insights to lead strategic change in relation to learning, skills, leadership and talent

• Collaborating with leadership teams to identify our strategic skills and talent needs

• Coaching leadership teams to embed our leadership and talent frameworks, systems and processes

• Bringing a focus to leadership development and skills development initiatives and activities within leadership teams across SW

• Collaborating closely with our employee experience team to ensure diversity, inclusion and belonging remain central to our approach to leadership and talent development

• Supporting the central leadership and talent team with the design and implementation of leadership and talent initiatives

• Encouraging leadership teams to identify, develop and ‘deploy’ our talented employees across Scottish Water

• Supporting leadership teams to create meaningful, robust, and diverse succession plans and talent pipelines

Ideal E xperience , Attributes and Skills

• Talent and succession management

• Leadership development

• Utilising Data & Insights

• Learning needs analysis

• Leadership development frameworks

• Learning impact evaluation

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Building and maintaining relationships

• Creative and innovative mindset

• Coaching and Facilitation

Desirable Experience , Attributes and Skills

• Change Management

• Relevant CIPD (or equivalent) Qualification (Learning and Training)

• BPS Level A & B

• Working knowledge of adult learning theories

• Project Management

• MS Office 365

Location: Flexible across Scotland

Salary: Band A ( Circa £45 – £48k per annum, depending on experience)

Closing Date: Friday 3 rd December 2021

Contract Type: Initial contract period of 2 years for external candidates/Secondment for internal candidates

We are also happy to consider flexible working requests

Do you have any Assistive Support Requirements? If we can support you further at any point during your application to Scottish Water, then please let us know by emailing : [email protected]

Working at Scottish Water

Scottish Water is one of the UK’s leading water companies, the quality of drinking water and satisfaction with the service we provide our customers has never been higher – but we want to be even better – and you could help play an important part!

We take employee engagement very seriously and have an inclusive and collaborative work environment where we respect people’s differences. We are committed to creating an engaging environment and a positive experience for our employees and we have an inclusive and collaborative work environment.

We were recently recognised as a Top 10 Flexible Employer in Scotland at the Flexibility Works Awards 2021 and by The Times as a Top 50 Employer for Women in 2019.
In 2019 we also won the Age Inclusive Award at The Herald and GenAnalytics Diversity Awards and were winners of the Best Public Sector Employer at the Family Friendly Working Scotland Awards 2020.
We have Carers Positive Exemplary Status and were Silver Award 2019 & Gold Award winners 2020 of the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme (DERS).

We aim for work to be an energising and fulfilling experience and everyone plays their part to ensure that Scottish Water is trusted to serve our customers and communities.

We are passionate about creating opportunities for young people and are proud to have achieved the Gold standard in the Investors in Young People accreditation, demonstrating our commitment to creating rewarding opportunities for young people.

You will have access to a host of benefits which include 38 days holiday a year, a defined benefit pension scheme, a discounted medical cash plan and cycle to work, plus a variety of agile working arrangements and family-friendly policies designed to support your wellbeing.

Next Steps

Any offer of employment with Scottish Water will be subject to the successful completion of a mandatory pre-employment screening process, including Disclosure Scotland and eligibility to work in the UK. Details can be found on our website.

For more information about this role or if you require any additional support throughout the application process please contact the recruitment team: [email protected]

Job Type: Full-time

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19