Learning and Development Specialist - Met Trainer

Job Introduction

We’re looking for two exceptional Learning and Development Specialists to help us make a difference to our planet.

As our Learning and Development Specialist, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week, but we would also consider applicants wishing to work a minimum of 18.5 hours per week and we will also try our best to consider those intending to work a job share.  Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Whilst this is a temporary position for 12 months, there is potential for it to develop into a permanent position.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

• We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
• We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
• We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
• We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
• We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Your world of expertise

As a Learning and Development Specialist in the People Development Team, you will enable Met Office and external customers to learn in the fields of weather and climate science and services, to develop their expertise and performance. You will work closely with our Performance Consultants, Content Designers, and Learning Technologists to provide an exceptional full-spectrum L&D consultancy, design, delivery, and evaluation service.

You will enable and support high quality learning and development experiences for our customers.

Your key duties

• Developing and applying a broad knowledge of Met Office strategies, plans, and performance needs, in line with the People Development Plan.
• Designing and delivering inclusive learning and development interventions utilising a wide range of methods including (but not limited to) face to face, virtual, and hybrid learning events, and through recorded video, audio, curated content and blended self-directed learning tools.
• Driving continuous improvement and assuring the quality of our work, including via collaboration and through the adoption of new practices or tools, and through lessons identified via our evaluation process.
• Ensuring alignment of learning to the People Development plan and People Framework.
• Maintaining currency and grow expertise in L&D practice, ensuring learning interventions and assessments incorporate emerging evidence-based practice and industry best practice. 

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is accredited as a 'Great Place to Work UK 2023' and in addition has achieved a place on both the UK's 'Best Workplaces in Tech' and 'Best Workplaces for Women' lists.

As our Learning and Development Specialist, your total reward package will be up to £46,974 annually, which includes:

• £33,794 base pay
• An outstanding Civil Service pension, with an average employer contribution of 27%
• Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): you will be paid £1,250 per annum as a market supplement to reflect the demand for your skills. Whilst in post, you will be paid this market driven allowance from September 2024 until September 2025 in your monthly pay
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising to 32.5 days (plus Bank Holidays) after 5 years and option to buy or sell up to 5 days per year of annual leave

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

1. You are an Expert By Nature with a depth and breadth of experience in operational meteorology, allowing you to maintain credibility in the design and delivery of impactful training. 
2. You Keep Evolving through a demonstrable passion for personal and professional self-development, and using this to help others. 
3. You are Better Together, having a proven ability to empathise and engage with audiences using the full range of communication methods, including when you need to get across complex information or uncertainty. 
4. You are a Force For Good, focussed on outcomes which contribute to customer and Met Office success, independently and as part of a team.

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date 18/09/2024 at 23:59 with first stage interviews commencing from 30/09/2024. You will hear from us once the closing date has passed.

How we can help:

If you are considering applying and need support to do so, please contact us via careers@metoffice.gov.uk. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.