Career Development Lead

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Dstl (the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory) works to maximise the impact of science and technology on the defence and security of the United Kingdom. To do this, in the People, Engagement and Communications Team, we work alongside communities of people who use their skills to innovate and develop technologies which give our country the winning-edge.

We want our people to talk with pride about developing and co-creating a varied career with a breadth and depth of experience, thriving, succeeding and continuing to grow. Partnering with our science technology and engineering professions, you will deliver a Dstl wide approach for technical career development. To be successful, you will engage profession leads with credibility, partnering with them to build development pathways, learning journeys and career lattices for our key capability areas.

We Are Looking For Someone Who Has

This exciting opportunity would suit either a L&D professional with particular experience in technical careers or a technical professional with significant experience in developing others. If you think this role is for you, we would love to hear from you.

• Partnered with stakeholders across a technical organisation to identify knowledge, skills, behaviours gaps and long term capability requirements, partnering with technical leads to develop innovative development solutions
• Applied best practice to produce a framework for the development of STEM careers across an organisation
• Used evaluation approaches and people insights to inform, influence and continually improve development
  

In This Role You Will

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to identify and develop appropriate STEM Career lattices aligned to the Government Science & Engineering Profession Strategy
• Identify and introduce development approaches for mid-career professionals: advocating chartership and professional development across all technical disciplines and establishing a professional mentoring approach to support STEM careers
• Partner with profession and capability leads, and the DSTL Science & Engineering community, to ensure we support evolving professional needs to build capability across the workforce
• Develop an organisation wide approach to learning journeys for technical skills
• Work with the technical and strategic engagement communities to deliver rotations/interchanges that benefit both the individual and the organisation
  

Important Information

Our work in defence, security and intelligence requires our employees to be British Citizens who are able to gain a high level of security clearance to understand the work you will undertake to protect us from any security threats. For this reason, we regret that only UK Nationals will be able to apply for this role. If you are an international or dual-national candidate, and you think you have the skills we need, please consider applying to any of our government, security or defence partners.

This role will require full UK security clearance and you should have resided in the UK for the past 5 years.

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Developing Self and Others

We’ll provide a great range of benefits including;

• Fully flexible working, including alternative working patterns, annualised hours, compressed hours and job share, to name a few.
• Flexible Working hours, a 12 month reference period and the ability to bank hours. Up to 37 hours can be taken in any calendar month
• Excellent learning and development to ensure everyone fulfils their potential.
• Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
• Chartership and accreditation support.
• Pension.
• Generous annual leave, with the ability to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday per year.
• A competitive salary.
• Onsite gyms and restaurants.
• Staff discounts for high street and online shopping, restaurants and days out.
  

Our Diversity Networks

Dstl recognises the importance of diversity and inclusion as people from diverse backgrounds bring fresh ideas. We are committed to building an inclusive working environment in which each employee fulfils their potential and maximises their contribution. We have a number of support networks to ensure all employees feel supported at work.

These include the following;

• Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Network
• Faith and Culture Network
• Parents and Carer Support Network
• Alternative Working Network
• Gender Equality Network
• New Starters Network
• Enabled Network, for people with visible and non-visible disabilities
  

For further information about Dstl please check out our LinkedIn page Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

See our vetting charter.People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.We want you to have your best chance of success in our recruitment process, so If at any stage of the application process you would like help or assistance please contact the Dstl Recruitment Team dstlrecruitment@dstl.gov.uk and we will do all we can to support you.

We offer a guaranteed interview for all disabled applicants who provide evidence in their application of meeting the minimum essential requirements of the post, set out in the job description. You will be asked to indicate if you are applying under this scheme when you submit your application.

The Sift will take place week commencing 18th October 2021 and will assess your answers to the Behaviour statements and how your CV & Personal Statement matches the requirements for the role as detailed in the attached job description.

Interviews will be held week commencing 8th November 2021 and will consist of a combined technical and behavioural interview to include a presentation assessing your skills and experience in relation to the job description.

Please note that Dstl will be contacting individuals via email and you should check your junk mail folder regularly. Any attachments may not be available via smart phone or tablet views.

For further information about Dstl please check out our LinkedIn page

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.Open to UK nationals only.

This job is not open to candidates who hold a dual nationality.The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.