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Interim Housing Learning & Development Officer - London – 3 months
Venn Group’s specialist Local Government recruitment team is recruiting a Housing Professionalisation & Development Officer for a London Borough. This interim opportunity is to provide hands-on delivery, coordination and administrative support for Housing’s professionalisation and workforce development programme, with a particular focus on the Competence and Conduct Standard (CCS), professional standards, workforce competence and inspection readiness.


The role will support implementation of agreed priorities, coordinate development activity and ensure that Housing has accurate systems, records and evidence to track competence, learning and professional qualifications.


The role
• Support the implementation and embedding of the Housing Professional Standards Policy
• Coordinate and support the delivery of workshops, briefings and other development activity, including scheduling, communications, attendance and follow-up
• Facilitate workshops and development sessions where required and help develop practical materials, guidance and resources
• Support training needs and capability analysis across Housing and help translate identified gaps into appropriate development activity
• Provide day-to-day coordination and administration for Housing professionalisation activity, maintaining action plans, records, trackers and evidence
• Support work to make Oracle (Dynamic Skills) fit for Housing’s needs, working with relevant corporate teams to improve how competence, learning, qualifications and development activity are recorded and reported
• Undertake manual data entry and data cleansing in Oracle and other systems where required, ensuring records are complete, accurate and kept up to date
• Support the development and coordination of the Housing induction offer and ongoing professional development activity


About you
• Knowledge of social housing, the Competence and Conduct Standard and/or experience of working in a regulatory or inspection environment
Strong Learning & Development/workforce development background, ideally within a complex or regulated organisation
Experience of undertaking Training Needs Analysis, identifying capability gaps and translating these into appropriate development activity
• Experience of designing and delivering learning interventions, workshops and practical development resources, with an understanding of how to evaluate impact
• Facilitator - able to engage effectively with staff and managers at different levels
• Experience of LMS/HR systems, ideally Oracle Learn, together with good Excel and reporting skills
• Able to work independently, analyse information, identify gaps and follow actions through to completion


Key details
*Day Rate: DOE
*Location: London / Hybrid – around 2/3 days per week onsite
*Start: ASAP
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