Workforce Development Adviser
Team: Workforce and Talent Development
Job Family: Advising - CBG11
Salary: £41,042 - £44,296 per annum pro rata
Hours: 30 hours per week
Location: You will be expected to attend a CBC office location as often as needed to carry out your role, which will be no less than once per month.
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract / Secondment Opportunity until 04/06/2027 (Maternity Cover)
Closing Date: 17th May 2026
Interview Date: W/C 18th May 2026
About us:
It’s an exciting time at Central Bedfordshire’s workforce and talent development team, the Workforce and Talent Development Team supports the ambitions of the council and its staff to provide a great service to Central Bedfordshire residents through career development opportunities that enable staff to find their greatness.
This is a great time to join us on our journey, find your greatness as a key member of the team dedicated to supporting and developing our staff to deliver better services to the local community.
You will have experience of working in a training environment and developing learning opportunities which support learners at every level in the organisation. You will need to be flexible in your approach to work and respond quickly and positively to changing priorities.
The Workforce Development Adviser will be responsible for analysing the learning needs arising from our corporate programmes and projects. You will also support a wide range of services across our Place and Communities, Resources and Office of the Chief Executive directorates.
You will work closely with the Corporate Workforce Development Manager, Workforce Development Trainer, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) from service areas and project teams to establish our learning offer and provide advice and guidance to find the right solution. You will also manage training requests to source cost effective solutions which meet the requesters’ needs. You will support and review our existing offer including the corporate induction, mandatory learning and management programmes.
You will review e-learning and virtual content via our Success Factors Learning Management system and curate additional content where needed. You will also undertake learning needs analysis reviews and develop learning activities to support these.
To ensure quality assurance, you will collect data and use reports to evaluate the effectiveness of training activities and make recommendations for improvement.
Our Offer
We have a number of rewards and benefits available to our staff, to view these please visit our Rewards and Benefits page
Our aspiration is to be a truly flexible employer. We welcome discussion on location, hours and working pattern as part of the application process.
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You will be expected to demonstrate how you meet the key accountabilities and competencies in this Recruitment Pack.
Our Competency Framework and Qualification Guidance are to be read in conjunction with our Recruitment Pack.
For an informal discussion about this position, please contact: Sue Ridley at sue.ridley@centralbedfordshire.gov.uk
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To maintain a fair and consistent approach for applicants, it is Central Bedfordshire Council's policy to only consider applications made via our online application system and we therefore thank you for not submitting your application offline.
Our National Careers Service team offer a free monthly workshop covering CV writing and how to complete the statement sections of the Central Bedfordshire Council online application form. This MS Teams workshop is open to anyone from the UK and lasts around 1.5 hours. Please book your place here.
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