Job Title: Learning and Organisational Development (L&OD) Partner
Salary: £42,000 - £56,800 depending on skills and experience
Location: Cambridge, hybrid working with 2 – 3 days in the office
Contract: 2-year fixed term contract – full time
As an exciting new role within our team, your initial focus will involve collaborating closely with People Business Partners, not only to help build our ways of working together, but also to start to identify and prioritise business issues. As you progress, you'll establish connections across different departments through your product delivery, fostering trust to better grasp learning and OD challenges. Your role will involve crafting prototypes for potential scaling across the organization, aiding in our strategic goals and nurturing a culture of development. Leveraging your expertise, you'll advocate for learning opportunities and scrutinise requests to ensure they align with our strategic objectives.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
Your role will be crucial in working to embrace change and drive innovation forward to meet the changing needs of our service. You will create, implementing, assessing, and integrating Learning and Organisational Development (L&OD) tools and projects that align with our goals.
Using L&OD expertise to question assumptions, identify business challenges and learning gaps and propose the most effective solutions. This will involve collaborating with experts from diverse disciplines to address learning and development needs.
You will work in close collaboration with the Heads of Business Partnering and other People Business Partners to ensure a joined up and fluid approach to evidence-based decision making, problem solving and the co-creation of solutions for business areas. Understanding and recognising where other partner expertise are better placed to support.
Additionally, you'll provide support for organisation wide initiatives as needed, contributing to the broader goals of the team and department.
About you
You're the go-to person when it comes to performance consultancy, skilled at forging meaningful and inclusive connections with stakeholders and building trust effortlessly. Your knack for open communication and collaboration makes you a valuable asset, ensuring everyone's voice is heard. With your finger on the pulse of learning design principles and industry trends, you're always eager to learn and evolve.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We are actively reviewing application and conducting interviews. Our application window closes on Friday 10th May however if we find the perfect candidate before then, we reserve the right to close tis advert early. So, why wait? Apply today.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov dot uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.