SY-People Development Delivery Partner

Role: People Development Delivery Partner

Department: People & Organisational Development

Location: Wath-on-Dearne, Rotherham

Salary: £50,088 - £54,879

Hours: 37

Contract Type: Temporary until 30^th September 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a People Development Delivery Partner to join our Organisational Development and Learning Team on a temporary basis until 30^th September 2025. This role is a senior management role and you will be responsible for leading multi-disciplinary learning and development delivery teams whilst supporting the force to develop and maintain skills and competencies needed to provide an outstanding service to the public

Key responsibilities:

Lead, develop, motivate, and engage the ODL delivery teams.
Develop and deliver the annual force skills and capability plan.
Develop KPIs associated with key ODL delivery areas.
Identify organisational trends and forecast demand that will help us to get upstream of capability gaps.
Alongside other POD Partners, advise and support business areas in relation to change programmes.
Working with the Performance & Support manager, manage and report on the performance of the internal ODL delivery function.
Lead the development, delivery, and continuous improvement of high quality ODL delivery services that meet organisational needs and objectives.
Manage the external training budget as part of the ODL senior management team by identifying and commissioning external training where relevant.
Create a culture of evidence-based, blended, and innovative solutions to L&D needs and delivery methods.
Provide trusted, strategic L&D advice and guidance to senior leadership teams, and other key stakeholders to support them in their planning and decision making.

Skills and experience:

Substantial L&D management experience in a law enforcement environment.
Able to plan to medium and long-term L&D activity, including the associated financial, people and materials resourcing requirements.
Able to allocate resources appropriately across the teams and show commercial awareness/ business acumen in ensuring L&D solutions are delivered within the available budget/ resources and align with organisational goals.
Understands data analytics and how to use these to identify themes/ trends and translate into recommendations and/ or action.
Able to lead, develop and motivate, creating strong engagement with ODL’s priorities and with Force values and behaviours.
Skilled in setting function, team, and individual objectives, assessing progress, identifying emerging risks, issues, and opportunities, and taking corrective steps as required to ensure that the right results are achieved.
Able to build trust with stakeholders through effective engagement and communication that enables negotiation, collaboration, problem solving and delivery.
Able to identify opportunities for innovative L&D concepts and technologies to enhance the delivery of L&D solutions.

Skills and experience as documented in the role profile need to be evidenced in your application to be considered for interview

For more detailed information relating to the role, skills and experience for this role, please click here to view the role profile

What we offer:

We offer generous entitlements and supportive policies to enable a better work-life balance, some of which are listed below:

A highly competitive salary and access to a generous pension scheme
Generous annual leave allowance
A wide range of family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Flexible working arrangements including flexi-time and hybrid working
A transparent and collaborative team culture underpinned by our core values of Fairness, Integrity & Trust
Comprehensive range of development and leadership courses to develop your career with South Yorkshire Police
Employee Assistant Programme (accessible 24/7) offering confidential support and advice
Flexible lifestyle benefits such as: Blue Light Card, Company Shop, Cycle to work scheme
Committed to embedding sustainability: South Yorkshire Police Sustainability Strategy 2020-2025 (yhrn.police)
Membership to the Sports and Social Club
Access to a wide range of staff support groups and networks

Eligibility:

Applicants must meet the minimum requirement checkable history criteria, which must be taken into account for individuals applying to work with South Yorkshire Police in any capacity. A minimum checkable history of 5 years is required for this role and successfully undergoing recruitment vetting procedure is a pre-requisite of employment with South Yorkshire Police.

Appearance & Standards:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to striking a proportionate balance between self-expression and the need to maintain role sensitive professional standards in dress and appearance. Officers, staff, and volunteers of South Yorkshire Police are permitted to have tattoos visible whilst on duty provided the tattoo is not considered to be unacceptable or otherwise inappropriate. Tattoos will be reviewed as part of the recruitment and selection process.

Smarter ways of Working:

South Yorkshire Police is committed to developing working practices which assist staff to balance their personal and professional lives, whilst meeting the needs of the organisation. This in turn enables South Yorkshire Police to provide an outstanding service to the community.

There are 3 different categories as part of this which are: Fixed, Field and Hybrid.

This role has been evaluated as a hybrid role.

Hybrid: Applicable when the work can be undertaken at any location, whether that be a SYP building or from home.

South Yorkshire Police’s Key Values:

At South Yorkshire Police we have 3 key values which run through everything we do Fairness, Integrity & Trust, the attached document details the key behaviours we expect all employees to adhere to.

Contact details:

For further information about the role, please contact: Superintendent Shaz Wood om 07435 753253

Closing Date: 17^th March 2025

Closing dates are not normally extended, other than in exceptional circumstances and agreement is made between the Talent Acquisition Manager and the Line Manager for the role.

How to apply:

Please click ‘Apply’

Candidate Information:

Please note that, should you be successful at the interview stage and before appointment, the relevant pre-employment checks are required. These include references, medical clearance, vetting clearance and sickness absence criteria check.

Diversity & Inclusion:

Applications are particularly welcome from female and ethnic minority candidates.

It is really important to us that the department represents the community we serve, in order for us to provide the best service, utilising a range of backgrounds, experience and skills. We support and value all officers and staff and the unique experiences they bring to the role. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from these valuable underrepresented groups.

If you are from an underrepresented group and want to find out more about the support we can offer, please contact our dedicated team on positiveaction@southyorks.pnn.police.uk

In addition, we will look to support anyone who requires Part Time/Job share working hours.

Internal Candidates:

This vacancy is temporary therefore, you must have the support of your current Line Manager to apply. If you are a permanent member of staff, this would be classed as a secondment opportunity. If you are on a fixed term contract, you must contact the Talent Acquisition Team before applying.

Please ensure that you and your current line manager complete the attached consent form. Please email the completed form to the hiring line manager, with the role title and the closing date stated in the subject of your email.

Without support, your application will not be considered any further.

The decision to make all adverts temporary for a fixed term of 12 months is due to the financial position. As the financial position becomes clearer, it may be that we can make some of these posts permanent without the need to run a second recruitment process, equally they could be ended sooner than the 12 months.

Documents to Review:

For the Police Staff Recruitment Vetting Handbook - Please Click here

For Application Guidance and Tips - Please Click Here

For the FIT Values of South Yorkshire Police - Please Click Here

For Secondment Approval - Please Click Here