Learning & Development Centre Manager – West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

We are looking for a talented, quality focused, dynamic and experienced Learning & Development Centre Manager to lead quality, design, delivery, and evaluation of our learning projects and programmes.
Are you someone with excellent knowledge, the right attitude and bags of skills to deliver awesome quality L&D interventions supported by a passionate team making a positive difference to our people?
You can help West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service by helping develop our people to deliver our work brilliantly.
The successful candidate will enable a culture of continuous improvement, deliver quality through our Skills for Justice Qualifications Centre and ensure our workforce is skilled, competent and equipped to deliver for the communities of West Yorkshire.

What we offer: an excellent package including generous holiday entitlement, family friendly working, 37 hour week flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working, local government pension scheme, free onsite parking, Sports and Social Club with free use of gym, an Employee Assistance Program, car salary sacrifice scheme.

Job Purpose:
• The Learning and Development Centre Manager is responsible for learning, development, and continuous improvement culture at WYFRS. You will lead the design, delivery and evaluation of learning projects and programmes and help ensure our workforce is skilled and equipped to deliver for the communities of West Yorkshire.
Key Responsibilities:
• You will lead on Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) activity, deliver robust systems, processes and implement effective standardisation to maintain excellent qualification and award standards as Centre Manager and Lead IQA.
• You will manage the learning and development function, including line management of the team, workloads, resource and budget allocation, professional development, and procurement of L&D interventions.
• You will enable a culture of continuous improvement, through project management of key learning and development workstreams, support the delivery of interventions through internal and external provision and evaluate outputs and outcomes.

Essential requirements:
• Significant experience of identifying, developing, delivering and evaluating learning and development programmes within an organisation.
• Line management experience, managing budgets, projects, people and performance.
• You will have experience of mapping and implementing occupational standards against qualifications.
• You will be educated to Degree level (Level 6) or have a significant equivalent level of experience. A qualified IQA (Internal Quality Assurance) with experience of embedding quality. You’ll have knowledge of awarding body codes of practice and assessment strategies.
We offer flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working. Whilst you will be required to work from our offices for parts of your initial training, after this you’ll work both in the office and from home.