Head of Secure Patents Academy - Newport
1 day ago
Newport
About the job Job summary Please note: Applicants should review all aspects of this advert to ensure a thorough understanding. If reviewing via a screen reader, please note that the Job summary, Job description, Person specification, Benefits and Things you need to know sections have been emphasised Head of Secure Patents Academy This is a new, exciting and varied role with responsibility for technical training and capability management across Secure Patents, developing our people for a high-performing future. The role holder will establish and manage a 'Secure Patents Academy' to service Secure Patents (including the Private Applicant Unit and the Secure Examination Support team) i.e. circa 550+ staff with differing training/development needs. The training/development currently includes: structured technical/legal training; informal technical training; core skills training; management training; Civil Service wide training; and specific/bespoke training for internal systems/processes. The purpose of the role is to assess current training/development to ensure effectiveness, inclusivity, and efficiency whilst also considering scalability and sustainability for a growing directorate. As Head of the Academy, the role holder will set the Academy direction. They will be expected to design and deliver training/development programmes (to include both existing and new materials) for multiple roles; provide help, guidance, and support to our technical/non-technical people; support and develop our leaders & managers; create/establish career pathways that value breadth and depth of experience; and mature our professions. The role holder will share our commitment to strengthen our talent pipelines, improve workforce agility and adaptability and support our technical/non-technical specialists to lead and manage their teams. Reporting to one of the Heads of Patents, the role holder will provide matrix management to trainers/programme managers to deliver a diverse training portfolio. We need someone who can see and influence the bigger picture, ensure that informed decisions are made and know when and how to engage in the detail; and who can work closely with colleagues in our central Talent and Learning team, and our Secure Patents and Secure Examination Support teams; sharing knowledge and best practice across the organisation. This role requires commercial awareness, great stakeholder skills, and a real people focus on personal development. Job description Main duties consist of but are not limited to: • To establish and manage the Secure Patents Academy, providing matrix management to trainers/training programme managers, • Strategic leadership for Secure Patents capabilities and competencies, • Development and ownership of strategies relating to technical learning and development and their implementation, • Ensuring continuous improvement and evolution of the existing Secure Patents talent management schemes, • Responsibility for the Secure personal development budget ensuring best value across a wide range of training and development activities, • Developing management information tools/solutions for training and development activities to monitor and evaluate technical learning and development, talent management and succession planning, • Part of the Secure Patents leadership team, contributing to decisions around current and future organisational make-up, • Work closely with corporate talent and learning teams to align delivery and approaches, • Strong leadership and management expertise with experience of leading technical/specialist teams, • Experience of working in a training and/or development area, identifying opportunities for staff to develop their skills and abilities in line with organisational needs, • Strong written and verbal communication skills, • Strong strategic mindset and ability to 'see the big picture', • Understanding and experience of proactive risk management, • Driven and self-motivated and demonstrates a proactive approach to overcome challenges, • Upload an anonymised copy of your current CV., • Use this to explain why you're suitable for the role., • Structure your statement around the essential criteria in the Person Specification., • Leadership, • Developing Self and Others, • Communicating and Influencing, • A flexible working scheme with excellent development opportunities, • 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments (1 day per year) over 5 years of reckonable service. You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave, • Family friendly policies that support modern working families and individuals with caring responsibilities, • A variety of support functions; Staff Counselling Service, Peer to Peer Support Group, • Eligibility for special and office-wide bonus payments, • The opportunity to form part of our many inclusive network groups, find out more by looking at Intellectual Property Office (IPO) (diversityjobsgroup.com), • A range of wellbeing initiatives; Onsite Gym (Newport office), Eye Care Scheme, Volunteering Programme, Cycling facilities, • Free car parking is available on site at our Newport office, • UK nationals, • nationals of the Republic of Ireland, • nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window), • nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS), • individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020