Brighter Futures for Children
HR and Learning & Workforce Development
Full-time, Permanent post
About us
Brighter Futures for Children is a not-for-profit company, owned by, but independent of, Reading Borough Council. Although we are independent, we are very much part of the Reading Family. Our people enjoy all of benefits as other Council employees including membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and continuous service.
We work closely with partners in the local community and key organisations including Reading Borough Council, policy, public health and voluntary groups. We are responsible for the delivery of children’s social care, early help & prevention, education services (including SEND). This also includes fostering and adoption, the Youth Offending Service and traded services with schools.
Our main aim is to protect and enhance the lives of the children of Reading. We help families find long-term solutions to ensure children lead happy, healthy and successful lives.
About the role
The Learning & Workforce/L&D function encompasses all the typical aspects of L&D work, from training needs analysis, through to elements of instructional design, ad-hoc delivery, evaluation, and reporting. You should have an interest in Learning & Workforce Development, and previous experience is welcomed but not required.
This is a busy role in which the post holder is to provide high quality administrative support to ensure the function remains organised, and our learning offer easily accessible. The post holder must provide a seamless customer experience as it will interact with those in the business often via the company mailbox and in person.
The role
- To book training venues for courses which are funded via the L&D budget, or other courses/events where required by the L&D Partner/HR Manager.
- To be responsible for the administration of all courses within the annual L&D training calendar, and ad-hoc courses as they arise, this includes but not limited to, generating participant lists, sending agreed joining instructions to participants/vendors/instructors, participant reminders
- To be responsible for collecting delegate attendance list(s) after course completion, updating the Learning Management system within agreed timescales.
- To be responsible for the team inbox, including the prioritisation of all incoming messages, and forwarding queries to the relevant parties, where necessary.
- To ensure that POs are raised and receipted promptly for all training courses.
- To assist in financial duties when required
- To assist with general administration tasks to keep the L&D function organised (including maintaining SharePoint) and support on L&D projects as required by the L&D Partner
The L&D Administrator is required to have
- GCSE English & Maths grace C or recognised equivalent
- Previous demonstratable experience of using Microsoft packages, including
- Word – intermediate level
- Excel – basic level
- Outlook – calendar, tasks, email
- Moderate experience where there are constant demands on time, preferable supporting multiple users and manging conflicting priorities
Our Offer
We offer a supportive environment to grow and develop your career with the opportunity to be creative and focus on innovative and ambitious interventions that leads to sustainable change for families. We are kind, friendly, collaborative and value driven.
We have high expectations for our children and young people and work in a relationship-based, child-centred manner to achieve the greatest impact in children’s lives.
We offer a competitive salary, plus:
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Relocation Scheme
- 26 days’ holiday plus public holidays, rising by 1 day for each year of LA service up to 5 years, and then rising to 33 days after 10 years’ service
- Discounted Child Care (on site nursery)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loans
- A range of local discounts
- Free parking
- Salary sacrifice car lease scheme
For more information and a confidential discussion please contact:
Vin Woolford on [email protected]
Closing date: Sunday 23 April 2023
Interview dates: w/c Monday 8 May 2023
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible