Senior Workforce Development Advisor - Fixed Term until March 2026

Job Introduction

Join Us in Shaping the Future of Leadership at BCP Council

We are looking for a passionate and experienced professional to join our dynamic Workforce Development Centre of Excellence at BCP Council. You’ll be part of a forward-thinking team committed to building a culture where people thrive through inclusive, values-led leadership.

In this pivotal role, you will lead the development of a new Management Standards Framework - one of our key People Strategy priorities. This framework will define what great management looks like at BCP Council, supporting a high-performance culture, succession planning, and leadership development.

The post is funded until the end of March 2026.

You will work closely with stakeholders across the organisation to:

• Lead and manage the end-to-end Management Standards Framework project to design a modular, flexible framework that reflects the realities of managing in a complex public sector environment.
• Align the framework with our leadership development offer, performance indicators, and corporate ambitions.
• Coach and mentor junior team members to develop learning, tools, guidance, and engagement strategies to embed the framework into everyday practice
• Ensure the framework supports equity, transparency, and continuous improvement in management capability
• Promote systems thinking principles and understand the inter-relationships between the Directorates and partnerships
  
  

We are seeking someone with:

• A Degree (or equivalent experience) in learning and development, education, psychology, HR, or related field 
• Proven experience leading organisational development or workforce transformation projects.
• Strong understanding of the challenges and opportunities of management in the public sector.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in evaluating the impact and effectiveness of workforce development solutions
• Strong project management, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• The ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A creative, evidence-informed approach and a commitment to building a learning organisation. 

If you are ready to make a meaningful impact and help shape the future of leadership at BCP Council, we’d love to hear from you. 

If you would like to discuss this post and find out more about this opportunity, please contact Workforce Development Manager, Sophie Rowson, sophie.rowson@bcpcouncil.gov.uk

About BCP Council

BCP Council provides services to a diverse community of 400,000 residents and employs more than 5,000 people. Our area includes over 15 miles of beautiful world-renowned coastline. We can offer career defining roles to transform and improve services. By working with us, you can help deliver a vision of a thriving, word-class, prosperous and inclusive place for generations to come.

Our Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package to colleagues. Find out more on our website.

As a result of the creation of BCP Council in 2019, we are working on simplifying our terms and conditions of service and will be creating a single pay structure which is to be applicable for all employees. It is important to us that we offer benefits that our colleagues value as part of their total employment package and we are reviewing these to make sure we have it right. We have been in a process of collective bargaining since 2019 and have positively worked forward to reach an agreed position with the unions for the new contractual offer. This has taken longer than we hoped and therefore we are having to consider all alternative avenues available to enable us to remove inequality in the organisation as a result of bringing together 3 councils. 

We are in the process of establishing a timescale for implementation, and all colleagues joining us will be included in these changes. We want to reassure everyone that whichever route is taken to reach the new terms and conditions, we can honour continuous service and there will not be any job reduction as a result of the implementation of Pay and Reward.  If you have any questions at all about this process, please feel free to raise this with the hiring manager.