Contract type – Full Time, Permanent
Grade – 7
Information about the role
Counter Terrorism Policing is a collaboration of UK police forces working with the UK intelligence community to help protect the public and our national security by preventing, deterring and investigating terrorist activity.
Based at our modern offices near to Birmingham International Airport, our Operational Development Unit (ODU) is a dedicated team who are responsible for the strategic management of Learning, Training and Exercising (LTE) within the CT Network. The unit forms a key part of the Prepare strand of the Home Office CONTEST Strategy. Working alongside our partners, the ODU harnesses the value of shared LTE to ensure the CT Network is ready, prepared and interoperable to respond to current and emerging terrorism threats. We are looking for a motivated, dynamic and suitably qualified Organisational Learning & Development Officer to join the department. This role necessitates occasional national travel and out of hours working.
Responsibilities
- To lead and support national projects aligned to the National CT Organisational Learning Strategy to develop an interoperable Organisational Learning capability for the CT network.
- To make complex decisions and provide strategic direction and taskings to NCTP funded regional OL&D posts subject to governance and matrix-management arrangements.
- To plan and organise individual and team activities including setting aims/objectives and managing actions for delivery within set deadlines.
- To produce management reports for a strategic audience. These will include project proposals/business cases and performance reports.
- To develop and build relationships with partner agencies in relation to CT network organisational learning and exercising, including national leads in the Security Service, MOD and Home Office.
- To lead and coordinate working groups/conferences and represent the National OL&D unit at National Working Groups to promote shared learning and operational improvement.
- To lead on the development, implementation and management of the Network-wide Organisational Learning System IT application, which tracks lessons progression from identification (via exercises, operational debriefs and thematic reviews) through to resolution, testing and closure.
- To co-ordinate, design, prepare and deliver National Counter Terrorism exercises involving the Police CT Network and facilitate opportunities for learning and testing of new operational initiatives in accordance with the National Organisational Learning and Development Strategy.
- Planning, delivery and production of National Operational debriefs as requested via the Senior National Co-ordinator and delivery and production of debriefs for National MOD CT land based exercises.
- To manage the quality assurance regime for the CT Network in capturing, validating and evaluating organisational learning activity across all CT units to ensure that exercising, debriefing and lessons capture processes are consistent and comply with national standards.
- Promote and comply with NCTP policies on equal opportunities and H&S both in delivery of services and maintenance of discipline and professional standards for Organisational Learning activity across the UK.
- Promote equality, diversity and Human Rights in working practices by developing and maintaining positive working relationships, ensuring that colleagues are treated fairly and contributing to developing equality of opportunity in working practices.
- To support the Training and Development Team in the development and delivery of national CT training programmes and continued professional development of national cadres.
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