Future Skills Advisor - West Midlands, United Kingdom - Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC)

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West Midlands, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Category:
Apprenticeships / technical training

Location:
Midlands and surrounding areas

Salary:
£45,000 - £60,000 DOE

Type:
Permanent

Published date:
Tuesday 28 November 2023

Closing date:
Wednesday 31 January 2024

We are looking for a Future Skills Advisor to join our MTC Training Team based in Coventry or Oxford.

Are you in a Learning and Development role & keen to make a wider impact?
Looking for autonomy and the ability to shape training curricula and workforce transformation?
Get great satisfaction from supporting clients and shaping the way training and development is defined?
Thrive working in a supportive environment that enables you to work autonomously and with the level of trust and respect commensurate with your experience?

Here at MTC, we have a fantastic opportunity to join the Future Skills Team as a
Future Skills Advisor (
Learning and Development Consultant).

Our focus is supporting UK manufacturing by developing a workforce with future-proof skills aligned to industry need and emerging technologies.

With the opportunity to cover the UK base, work flexibly from home or any of our offices (Coventry, Oxford, Liverpool) when you need to, this position offers a competitive salary.

Duties and Responsbilities

Reporting to the Future Skills Manager, you will be joining a close-knit team who are incredibly passionate about what they do.

As the Future Skills Team grows, we are looking to add to our expertise ensuring that we continue to enhance our training programmes to meet the needs of the industry.

You will liaise with multiple stakeholders to research regional skill gaps and identify new or evolving roles of strategic importance in the high value manufacturing sector.

Confident and approachable, you will work closely with industry partners, manufacturers and colleagues to drive collaboration and approval.

With extensive L&D experience, you will be accustomed to defining and creating education and training programmes to develop the future workforce.

You'll develop competency frameworks and report future requirements, ensuring that we continue to enhance our training programmes to meet the needs of the industry.

Organisational Needs Analysis, Training Needs Analysis and working with competency frameworks is second nature to you and at some point, in your career, you may have also been an instructional designer or trainer, which helps immensely with this role in defining and creating innovative education and training programmes to develop the future workforce.

Activities will include:

Liaising with key industry partners, such as awarding bodies to drive collaboration and approval.
Liaising with major high value manufacturers and MTC members, to drive collaboration and approval
Facilitating skills workshops with all the stakeholders and MTC research engineers
Articulating the output of workshops into competency frameworks that clearly define the current and future requirements of roles within the industry
Project Management of the assigned framework projects

You'll be comfortable communicating to groups and individuals.

With a proven background within learning and development, you will have gained experience in competency framework and instructional design and will be able to complete your findings in detailed reports and create business plans to ensure growth and improvements within their policies and processes.

Person Specification

Planned and organised in your approach to managing projects to meet and exceed business needs
Experienced in designing blended L&D solutions: virtual, digital and face to face
Experience of developing competency frameworks and learning curricula
An experienced and engaging facilitator with large and small groups of delegates
Commercial and business savvy
Able to balance customer focused thinking with practical and effective solutions
Collaborative, and engaging and able to influence others, including Business stakeholders
Able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of IfATE standards
Confident in sharing and owning feedback across the team and with delegates where relevant
Selfstarting, with a high level of resilience and attention to detail
Able to problem solve to drive results
Selfaware knowing own areas of strength and development
Able to work on own initiative in a hybrid environment
Able to evaluate the effectiveness of training programs and make recommendations for improvements
Demonstrate knowledge of and success in delivering different styles of learning techniques, to offer a varied and diverse L&D offering to all employees.

What's on offer?
In addition to the attractive package, our benefits package includes 20 days annual leave + public holidays

Private employee medical insurance:
There is an Employee Assistance Programme, ability to buy and sell holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee discounts and a fantastic pension scheme as well as continued invest