Are you a values driven L&OD specialist, passionate about developing individuals and teams to maximise performance and potential? Could you support our employees to be the best they can be? 

Optivo is recruiting an experienced Learning and Organisational Development Partner to play an integral role in the development and delivery of the Learning & Organisational Development strategy and align performance with our culture.

You will work on the identification of L&OD needs across Optivo and drive the development of activities that will develop the capability of our leaders, managers and employees; and engage with all areas of the business. Working closely with your HR colleagues, you will develop talent pipelines and design and deliver comprehensive L&OD interventions, activities and materials.

You will support and manage the delivery of effective and engaging virtual learning activities at all levels and maximise return on investment across the Optivo learning portfolio; ensuring all learning is evaluated, effective and embedded. You will also provide oversight and leadership to the L&OD co-ordinator/s and trainer/s.

The successful candidate will design, implement, manage and continuously improve an effective and appropriate integration programme involving schools, colleges, universities and other future skills establishments to help to maximise engagement and future pools of emerging talent recruitment.

A strong influencer and relationship builder, you will be experienced in working with senior management and working collaboratively with external providers, related external support, assessment, governance and influential bodies.

You will have significant experience of designing and running leadership and talent programmes, including emerging talent, apprentice, graduate and high potential programmes.  The ideal candidate will be working towards Level 7 CIPD L&D or equivalent and be a competent user of the Microsoft Office suite of applications with excellent report writing skills.

As well as this extremely rewarding job, you will also have 27 days annual leave, an extra day leave to celebrate your birthday, company pension, access to a health care cash plan and continued development and career opportunities throughout your employment with Optivo.

The role is based in Kent but travel between sites will be a requirement.

PLEASE NOTE: Interviews will be held on 12th June and there will not be alternative interview dates available. Successful candidates will be notified on Friday 7th June. The selection process will include a competency based interview and presentation.

Equal Opportunities

At Optivo our aim is to have a diverse and inclusive workforce where people are respected for who they are. We embrace and celebrate cultural diversity in the workplace and value the strengths it brings us as an organisation. We believe that everyone deserves to be treated with respect irrespective of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We treat everyone we house, serve, employ and work with fairly and expect and encourage others to do the same.