Skills and Capability Lead

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Job Title: Skills & Capability Lead

Location: Durrington/hybrid
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours

About the Role

Were looking for a dynamic and forwardthinking Skills & Capability Lead to shape the future of learning capability and performance across our organisation. This is a senior leadership role that sits at the heart of our transformation agendadriving a culture of continuous improvement capability excellence and high performance.

Reporting to the Head of Talent Capability & Leadership you will set the strategic direction for business skills development lead a highperforming team and ensure that the organisations workforce has the right skills behaviours and expertise to deliver on our current and future priorities.

This is a role for someone who thrives in complexity is energised by building something exceptional and can influence at every level of a fastmoving organisation.

What you will be responsible for

• Designing and delivering the organisations multiyear capability and learning strategy aligned to business priorities workforce planning and futureskills needs.
• Leading and developing a team of learning specialists to deliver strategic highimpact learning solutions.
• Establishing learning governance frameworks and enterprise standards that ensure consistency quality and measurable value across all learning activity.
• Owning and managing the business skills training budget including forecasting vendor/msp management and prioritising investment to ensure costeffective delivery.
• Leading organisation-wide learning programmes including induction mandatory training behavioural and business skills development and enterprise capability uplift.
• Designing highquality training solutions both internally developed and through external providers ensuring content is engaging modern and aligned to our skills strategy.
• Driving continuous improvement and innovation including digital learning datadriven decision making and future learning technologies.
• Building strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders ensuring capability needs are understood prioritised and embedded.
• Assuring quality and compliance across all training provision ensuring learning meets internal standards regulatory requirements and business expectations.

Additional Requirements Specific to the Role

• Oversight of MSP/learning provider performance and commercial management.
• Development of enterprise-wide skills frameworks and capability pathways.
• Occasional travel for team leadership supplier meetings or programme delivery.

What youll bring to the role

Essential

• Proven experience leading designing and delivering enterprisewide learning and development programmes.
• Strong leadership capability with experience managing teams and/or centres of expertise.
• Experience creating or leading learning governance frameworks and policy development.
• Budget ownership experience including vendor management and commercial oversight.
• Strong instructional design and programme development skills.
• Experience working with learning management systems and digital learning platforms.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive organisation-wide adoption of new practices.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to use data to evaluate impact and shape decisions.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent experience.

Desirable

• Coaching qualification or experience.
• Experience working with MSPs or large external training providers.
• Knowledge of psychometrics or talent assessment tools.
• Experience in workforce planning capability mapping or organisational development.

Southern Water is at the forefront of transforming Britains water industry investing significantly to enhance resilience sustainability and service excellence. With 7.8bn planned investment for 2025-30 this is an unparalleled opportunity to join a business committed to delivering a generational shift in the way water services are managed.

You will be joining at a time ofsignificant change working alongside a highly skilled leadership team witha clear visionfor the future. We offer an environment where senior professionals can make a meaningful impact influence major strategic decisions and drive long-term value creation

At Southern Water we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. Ifyourepassionate about making a positive impact and think you can bring value to our teamwedlove to hear from youeven if youdonttick every box. Your unique skills and experiences could be exactly what we need.

If this roleisntquite whatyourelooking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (-Introduce Yourself)

Our Commitment to Diversity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds identities and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race ethnicity gender sexual orientation age disability religion or any other protected characteristic. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know.

Additionalinformation:

In line with Southern Waters security requirements successful candidates willbe requiredto provide evidence of their identity eligibility to work in the UKcriminal recordcheck (DBS)and verification of their employment and/or education history for the past three years.

Appointment to this role is subject to the successful completion of all preemployment checks including security vetting.

Please note that if a candidate does not meet the required security standards orfails topass the vetting process Southern Water reserves the right to withdraw the offer of employment. Some positions may also requirehigher levels of security vetting which may involve providingadditionaldocumentation.

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