£36,000 - £45,000 + 25 days hols + 8 BH + Pension. We also offer a fantastic benefits package, which includes Online GP Service, Life Insurance and many more!

Location: Base location Bradford with hybrid working

To excel in this role, you must have expertise in coaching, mentoring, and learning and development. You will build coaching and mentoring relationships with leaders and teams, supporting and challenging their adoption of YW Organisational Development tools and approaches. Design and deliver interventions with a measurable impact on leadership capability and team environment, building a suite of learning solutions and pathways that mean leadership capability can be efficiently, consistently, and sustainably developed.

As part of a community of leadership learning, coaching, and development SMEs across YW, you will work together to build and deploy an integrated and cohesive set of learning activities across our business. You will also stay up-to-date in external best practice in learning and development, coaching, and organizational development to ensure YW is using the latest thinking and practice in its solutions.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

Essential:

• Qualified in coaching at level 5 or below
• Experience of delivering leadership-, behaviour- and performance-enhancing coaching, mentoring, learning and development activities
• Has experience of working at all levels of an organisation (individual contributor through to c-suite) and can adapt style accordingly, both in design and dynamically in delivery
• Extensive experience of learning design across facilitated (face to face and virtual) and self-directed modes of delivery
• Experienced working within a blended learning framework and of cohort-based learning programmes
• Experience of contemporary learning approaches – experiential, digital and immersive
• Confident and capable user of modern business technology and communication channels (e.g. MS Word/Excel/Powerpoint, Teams, Whiteboard)
• Extensive experience of integrating behavioural tools (e.g. psychometrics, 360s, feedback, team dynamics) within learning
• A strong and engaging communicator verbally who inspires, encourages, and challenges learners to grow their capability
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) and of keeping pace with latest thinking in the space of leadership and behavioural learning & development, including coaching
• Works well independently and as part of a team
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and partnering skills
• Has experience/is accredited as an Assessor (e.g. Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement)
• Experience of sourcing and managing external learning solutions, providers and partners
• A Full UK Driving Licence is essential as business travel will be required to sites across the Yorkshire Water Network

Desirable:

• Experience of psychometrics and/or qualified in some assessment tools
• Has worked with digital/curated learning platforms and Learning Management Systems
• Experience working with Success Factors Learning/SAP
• Is an accredited coach at level 5 and above
• Experience of coaching within a continuous improvement/change environment
• ILM or CMI Leadership & Management Qualification

If you are an expert in leadership & behavioural development who is passionate about coaching and mentoring, apply now to join us on our journey to becoming a leading employer in Yorkshire.

To apply for this exciting opportunity, please send your CV and cover letter to us today. We look forward to hearing from you!

Advert End Date: 26th May 2023

What's in it for you?

We are committed to attracting and developing the best people across our business. Our success relies on our ability to provide a supportive, inclusive and motivating environment where everyone has a role to play in supporting the delivery of outstanding service to our customers.

We offer excellent career opportunities to our colleagues, in an environment that is challenging and rewarding.

We are looking for highly talented people who can demonstrate an affinity with our values to help us achieve our vision of 'taking responsibility for the water environment for good'. In return, we offer a lively and diverse environment in which people can build a long and varied career, rewarded with an excellent salary and benefits package.

Company Information

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire we make sure that all 5.2 million people living in the region have clean safe drinking water on tap and their waste water taken away. But for us it's so much more than this.

We care passionately about the environments and communities in which we work; we always look for new innovative ways to do things that deliver great value for our business and deliver the service our customers want and expect.

Our customers are at the heart of what we do and how we do things. We work best as a company to deliver this when we work together - team work, creativity, enthusiasm and passion are inherent within our 3000 people who work 24/7 365 days a year to keep Yorkshire's water flowing.

We are a business that has its eye on the future, planning ahead to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow and always.

Yorkshire Water values equality, diversity and inclusion we celebrate and support difference and believe that everyone should be treated with respect. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of gender, marital status, parental status, sexual orientation, race, colour, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, religion or belief and trade union membership.

Yorkshire Water reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.