Talent Development Partner in Altrincham

As a Talent Development Partner, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and overseeing talent and development programs to enhance skills, improve team and individual performance, and foster career growth.

You will operationalise initiatives as part of the TSCG Deal for Colleagues, enhancing the onboarding experience, performance management process, career path development, training plans, and competency frameworks.

Your efforts will ensure that colleagues are engaged and equipped for future challenges.

• Oversee the management of talent initiatives, including the development and execution of leadership development programmes.
• Ensure adherence to mandatory training as part of our compliance obligations, in addition to developmental training.
• Provide a business partnership service for agreed departments/directorates to ensure TSCG's People First commitments and People and Culture best practice processes are embedded.
• Partner with managers to implement workforce and job design, talent and succession strategies that enable the Group to build the workforce needed for the delivery of strategic goals.
• Champion and role model the use of workforce data analytics to support and drive decisions.
• Collaborate with the Talent Attraction and Development Manager to map career families and pathways for the deployment of our Career Pathways initiative.
• Lead the role for Apprenticeships, including planning the growth of our offering, optimising funding available, and providing meaningful apprenticeships that support future needs and benefit individuals' careers.

Education and

Qualifications: CIPD qualified to chartered status or substantial equivalent HR experience.

Be educated to level 7 or have experience demonstrating the capabilities associated with a qualification at that level.

• Knowledge: Knowledge of learning and development, talent attraction, and HR best practice.

Understanding of IT applications in HR environments, EDI theory and practice, best practices in employee experience and employee voice, and employment law.

• Experience: Significant experience in a HR environment at a professional/advisory level.

Experience in managing conflict and sensitive issues, partnering senior managers to identify workforce design, skills and capabilities, and driving meaningful talent and succession initiatives.

Experience in managing learning and development activities, redesigning performance management processes and systems, and implementing LMS or online Career Pathway systems

• Skills and

Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

Ability to organise and analyse organisational workforce data, translate data into insights, and present and facilitate sessions with leadership teams.

A strong focus on delivery of milestones and outcomes, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy

Ambitious: We believe in you.

You can do it.

• Resilient: See the challenge. Face the challenge. Emerge even stronger.
• Collaborative: When we work together, great things happen.
• Inclusive: This place is for everyone, we all belong.
• Respectful: Full respect. For each other, ourselves, and the world around us.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a dynamic and evolving department that values innovation and inclusivity.
• Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals dedicated to making a positive impact.
• Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development.

About TSCG - Making a difference, together At Trafford & Stockport College Group (TSCG), you belong to a team that's committed to shaping brilliant futures - for students and colleagues alike.

We believe in unlocking the potential that exists in everyone and when you work with us, your individual skills and experiences are valued.

You'll be part of a supportive and friendly community, where everyone brings their own unique perspective and strengths, and where the work you do is appreciated and celebrated.

We're deeply rooted in our local communities, with strong connections to businesses, industry, and universities.

Together, we're all working toward a shared mission: to elevate skills, create opportunities, shape futures, and transform lives.

TSCG is not just a place to work - it's a place to belong, to thrive, and to make a difference.

• Exceptional Benefits Package At TSCG
• 40 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
• Generous company pension contribution 15%
• Onsite Costa Coffee & Subsidies staff canteen
• Employee Assistance Programme that extends the supports to your family members
• Tailored Professional Development plan
• Free onsite Parking

All employees, including senior managers, will normally be appointed to the minimum point of the pay grade for the job.

In certain cases, it may be appropriate to appoint to a higher point in the pay grade at the discretion of the Director of HR & Performance due to the candidate's current salary, experience or qualifications.

Staff at Trafford & Stockport College Group go above and beyond to ensure that our students get the best possible teaching and support to enable them to reach their ambitions.

We expect the very highest standards for all students, and this is evidenced year after year by our achievement and progression outcomes.

Please note that due to the volume of applications we receive we are unfortunately not able to respond to each applicant.

If you have not been called for interview within 3 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

Please note that new guidance in Keeping Children Safe in Education 2024 requires us to carry out an online search as part of our due diligence on successful candidates.

Here at Trafford and Stockport College Group (TSCG) we believe passionately in the transformative power of education and skills to unlock the potential for the successful futures of everyone who works with us - students, colleagues, employers and community partners.

Our college community is a place where everyone can belong - a truly inclusive and welcoming environment where ambition is nurtured, collaboration is fostered, resilience is built, and respect is earned.

Rooted in our local communities and aligned with Greater Manchester's ambitions, our vision is to lead the way for a city region where everyone has the education and skills to succeed in life and work.

Through our mission, we elevate skills, shape futures, and transform lives.

TSCG is an equal-opportunity employer.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

As part of our commitment to being a Disability Confident Employer, all disabled applicants who meet the minimum requirements of the job, as set out in the job description and person specification, will be guaranteed an interview.

Trafford & Stockport College Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all learners and expects all staff to share this commitment.

Employment at Trafford & Stockport College Group is subject to an Enhanced DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service) Check via the Disclosure and Barring Service and any post in regulated activity will also be subject to an additional barred list check.

The Group will meet the costs associated with this.

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