​​Learning Design Specialist ​

Job summary

​​This post is open to applicants who can meet the College’s nationality, UK residency and vetting requirements.​ We are specifically looking for police officers and police staff with recent relevant experience of working in child abuse investigations.

About us:

Our mission is: Leadership, Standards, Performance. This guides our work with individuals, forces, and policing partners towards our vision. We exist to support police officers, police staff and volunteers to deliver the best service to the public. Only through high quality leadership, consistent standards and continual performance improvement can everyone in policing reach their full potential. Our mission guides our work with individual, forces and partners towards our vision.

Although we are a relatively small organisation, our work has a big reach. We are uniquely placed to work both with national policing organisations and local forces to support frontline officers, staff and volunteers in their day-to-day roles.

We offer a supportive and inclusive environment for people to thrive. Our extensive flexible-working policy, employee wellbeing support, family friendly policies, employers’ network for equality and inclusion membership (ENEI silver award winners), and status as a disability confident leader means everyone can bring their whole self to work.

Additional Information:

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.

Due to our status as Public Servants, we are not eligible to participate in the Civil Service transfer process. Therefore, while successful candidates can transfer in on their existing terms and conditions, any subsequent transfer out of the College to the Civil Service cannot be guaranteed on existing terms and conditions, and new starter/modernised terms may apply.

The College embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we comply with the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) and apply the minimum selection criteria at sift stage of the recruitment process.

Job description

Are you interested in becoming part of a talented and dedicated team of learning design specialists? We have a fixed term role for a secondee who has experience of conducting child abuse investigations to help us design a new specialist child abuse investigator programme.

The team are based across the UK and are predominately home-based workers however design specialists will be expected to travel for projects and departmental meetings as required.

Vetting

The role requires vetting level NPPV3 and SC and you may need to complete further vetting forms if you do not already have this level.

As a Learning Design Specialist, you will be involved in every stage of the design process from researching, designing, planning, evaluating, and handing over final products to trainers for delivery.

Our work is high profile and can sometimes be pressured, working to tight timelines in a fast-paced environment.

The successful applicant must ensure all design content is accurate, relevant, and impactful and is aligned and appropriate for specialist child abuse investigators’ learning needs.

You will also apply project management principles to track progress, manage risks, and deliver high-quality outcomes.

To succeed in this role, you will bring excellent communication and engagement skills, experience in creating learning materials, and a commitment to supporting the policing profession. You will be confident in building strong working relationships, analysing learning needs, and applying your knowledge of adult learning to design creative, high-quality solutions that deliver measurable impact.

Person specification

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• ​​Design, develop and maintain high quality learning products applying innovative design solutions for face to face and online delivery. ​

• ​​Confidently engage and collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to share information, resources and support​

• Attention to detail to provide analysis, evidence and information to support recommendations for improvements

To be successful in this role you’ll need:

• ​​Skills in research, consultation and analysis of information from multiple sources to identify clear, appropriate learning .​

• ​​Proficiency in MS Office suite, Microsoft 365, learning design software and knowledge of remote learning platforms such as MS Teams​

• ​​Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to translate technical and academic language into an appropriate format and style for all stakeholders​

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to translate technical and academic language into an appropriate format and style for all stakeholders
• Attention to detail to provide analysis, evidence and information to support recommendations for improvements

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £36,520, College of Policing contributes £10,579 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

College staff have Public Servant status. As a Public Servant, you are eligible to join the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme

The College is a great place to work. We're passionate about our people and offer a wide range of benefits. The benefits we can offer include:

• Defined benefit pension scheme with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Up to 30 days holiday (this is in addition to 8 public holidays and 2.5 privilege days)
• Educational funding and study leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Flexi-time (for certain grades)
• Flexible working hours
• Childcare vouchers
• Benenden Healthcare
• National Dental Plan
• Discount scheme which provides cut-price on-line shopping
• Free employee support line
• Interest free loans for travel.
• Staff networks: You will have the opportunity to join our employee-run networks to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be heard. There are currently 6 staff networks; Diversity Champions, LGBT, Carer’s, Women’s, Parenting and our Diverse Ethnic Action network. Each network has access to an executive level sponsor.

Things you need to know

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