Knowledge Specialist - London, United Kingdom - Mott MacDonald

Mott MacDonald

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Knowledge Specialist

Country:
United Kingdom
Position Location:London, UK / Croydon, UK
Contract Type:Permanent
Work Pattern:Full Time
Sector:Corporate services
Discipline:Digital design
Job Ref:1701
Recruiter Contact:Nikki George
Mott MacDonald

We're a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients' businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.
A fundamental part of this is respecting each person's differences and striving to meet their needs.
We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor's top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.
Our values
:Progress,
Respect,
Integrity,
Drive,
Excellence.
About the business unit

Mott MacDonald's support services are the driving force behind our organisation enabling us to run efficiently and effectively.

The team works collaboratively to offer specialist advice, best practice and technology to all areas of our business specifically designed for our global reach.

Overview of role

We're growing our knowledge team and we are looking for an experienced knowledge manager to work with our global engineering Practices and support them in managing their technical knowledge.
The role is a fulltime role and will report to the Group Knowledge and Information Manager.
Responsibilities
Lead the generation, curation and use of technical knowledge globally through the Practices with key focus on the Good Practice libraries
Manage our global Lesson Learning Process, support its global and local implementation, drive cultural change and behavior within the Practice communities
Manage the maintenance and continuous improvement of our Professional Information tool which identifies our experts
Lead the creation and maintenance of Global Practice sites
Manage periodic reviews of the Practice vocabularies such as Practice, Practice Skill and Practice Topics term sets
Support our Global Practice Leaders in building their communities
Recommend changes/improvements to processes and tools managing technical knowledge
Lead / Project manage improvement projects approved by the Head of Excellence and the Global Knowledge Manager
Ensure appropriate access to external technical knowledge such as standards, regulations, eBooks and maintain the Croydon library
Being responsible for effective knowledge sharing across the Excellence team
Owner of Concept Search (auto tagging software and knowledge sharing tool)
Owner of practice and library enquiries
Project manage global knowledge sharing events such as Excellence Fortnight and supporting the Head of Excellence in the organization of other events such as Excellence Forum
Line management responsibilities

Essential

Knowledge management experience
Line management experience
Ability to impact and influence at a senior level across geographic and cultural boundaries
Strong understanding of the capabilities of SharePoint
Strong project management experience
Proven ability to effect behavioural change across an organization and drive adoption of new tools and business processes
Strong stakeholder management skills
Committed to continuous service improvement and innovation

Desirable

Experience working within a complex organisation
Experience working within engineering

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.
AccessibilityAgile working*
Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to longterm illness or injury.
Flexible benefits, including increased life assu