Learning and Development Specialist - 2026041

Post background

As our Learning and Development Specialist, you will play a key role in delivering JNCC’s learning and development offer, helping to design, coordinate and promote a wide range of development opportunities for staff and managers. Working with colleagues across the organisation and external suppliers, you will identify learning needs, support leadership and management development, oversee learning-related procurement, and manage initiatives such as coaching, mentoring and shadowing. The role also includes delivering in-house training, monitoring participation and evaluation data, and helping to ensure fair and inclusive access to development opportunities.

You will join a small, friendly and supportive HR team where collaboration, continuous improvement and learning are central to how we work. We value sharing knowledge, supporting one another and creating opportunities for everyone to grow. The team meets in person each month, providing opportunities to build relationships, learn from colleagues and take part in development activities.

Alongside your core responsibilities, you will contribute to a range of wider HR projects and initiatives that support our people agenda. This may include developing learning resources, supporting employee engagement activities, reviewing people policies, analysing workforce data, improving HR processes and helping to deliver our People Strategy. These opportunities will allow you to broaden your experience, develop new skills and make a meaningful contribution to both the employee experience and JNCC’s organisational priorities.

As part of our commitment to professional development, there may also be opportunities for us to support you in achieving a CIPD qualification or undertaking other work-related learning.

Post Duties

The key responsibilities of the role are outlined below. However, this is an overview of the role and is not exhaustive.

Procurement and Delivery of L&D activity

• Support the Senior HR Manager in delivering agreed training to meet corporate development priorities, where necessary identifying external providers / resources to

meet development needs.

• Support the development and delivery of our talent, leadership and management offer through working with senior stakeholders and external suppliers to identify learning needs and shaping learning interventions to address these, which may include delivery of in-house training sessions.
• Support and lead bitesize learning sessions for managers and team Leaders to develop core management skills and the rollout of HR policies.
• Lead on learning related procurement, including preparing necessary documents such as quote or tender specifications, JNCC or Government Commercial Services Frameworks procurement forms, sending invites for quotes and contract tenders and managing and reviewing responses to quotes and tenders.
• Support the Senior HR Manager by monitoring and updating budget expenditure and flagging variances.
• Manage the Coaching, Mentoring and Shadowing (CoMeSh) scheme

Learner and Stakeholder Support.

• Act as a first point of contact for routine learning and development enquiries and requests, providing clear and timely information and ensuring correct processes are followed.
• Attend cross-government Learning Framework calls, providing feedback on actions or updates.
• Represent HR on relevant organisational forums to support agreed equity and inclusion-related HR and L&D actions.

Communications, Evaluation and Continuous Improvement.

• Promote and communicate L&D opportunities through a range of channels, including all staff meetings, newsletters, sharing updates with CPD Champions on monthly calls or via email, targeted emails and Teams channels.
• Support fair and consistent access to learning opportunities, escalating issues or risks where appropriate and monitoring equality of access to training opportunities.
• Collect and collate learning feedback and evaluation data to evaluate impact and identify trends to continuously improve delivery.
• Monitor completion and compliance with mandatory training requirements.

Wider HR Support.

• Support other HR activities or project work as required.