Job Description:

We’re building thriving communities as one of the UK’s largest housing groups and a leading developer of affordable housing.

We believe everyone is entitled to a good home they can afford, in a place they are proud to live. More than 100,000 people live in our homes.

If you want to experience work that’s truly rewarding, join us. Because when we achieve together, customers and communities thrive.

Work for Orbit. Believe in people.

The role

At Orbit, we believe that investing in our people is fundamental to delivering great services for our customers. We are committed to creating a culture where every colleague has the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to be successful today, while preparing for the opportunities of tomorrow.

As our People Development Partner (Capability Development), you will play a key role in partnering with leaders across the business to build organisational capability and support the delivery of our People Strategy. Working closely with the Professionalisation Lead and wider People Development team, you will help shape, deliver and embed practical capability solutions that enable colleagues to perform at their best and continue to grow throughout their careers.

Through your work, you will help ensure our colleagues are equipped to meet changing business needs, evolving professional standards, and increasing regulatory expectations, while continuing to deliver excellent outcomes for our customers. This role will also hold line management responsibility of our Capability Coordinator, and is an agile working role with one day per week working on-site (subject to change weekly in line with business need).

This role is part of People and Strategy where you'll help us to build a culture and brand that people want to be part of.

What you'll achieve

• Partner with leaders and managers across allocated business areas to understand capability requirements and support the delivery of business priorities through effective learning and development interventions.
• Use workforce data, capability insights and stakeholder feedback to identify capability gaps, emerging development needs, and opportunities to improve performance.
• Lead the ongoing rollout, embedding and continuous improvement of Orbit's Professional Development Framework across agreed role groups, ensuring a consistent, high-quality colleague and manager experience.
• Own the implementation roadmap for the Professional Development Framework, working with business leaders to plan deployment, manage stakeholders, and ensure successful adoption across the organisation.
• Lead the design and implementation of future Continuous Professional Development (CPD) frameworks for role groups outside the Professional Development Framework, supporting Orbit's ambition for every colleague to have a clear professional development pathway.
• Plan and deliver all framework deployment activities, including stakeholder engagement, manager briefings, colleague workshops, calibration sessions, coaching, drop-in support and communications.
• Use capability data and workforce insight to identify organisational strengths, risks and development priorities, making recommendations to inform future learning and capability investment.

What you'll bring

Essential skills

• Demonstrable experience of designing, implementing or embedding capability frameworks, competency frameworks or similar workforce development approaches.
• Experience of partnering with operational leaders and stakeholders to deliver organisation-wide capability or learning initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility and work effectively across all levels of the organisation.
• Strong facilitation, presentation and communication skills, with the confidence to engage audiences ranging from frontline colleagues to senior leaders.
• Experience of designing and delivering engaging blended learning and capability development solutions.
• Ability to coach, support and challenge leaders to build capability within their teams.
• Experience working within the housing sector or another regulated environment.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and maintain high standards.

Why Orbit?

Choosing us means being rewarded in every sense.

Here’s what you can expect to enjoy with us.

A rewarding experience that works for you

We strive to create an inclusive experience with benefits and wellbeing programmes designed to help you, and your loved ones, to thrive. For a better work life balance, we offer flexible working opportunities for many roles.

A place to progress

From training programmes to professional qualifications, we provide opportunities to learn and develop at every stage of your career. Whether you’re a student, graduate or experienced professional we’ll support you to grow.

For leaders, our tailored development journeys are designed to stretch and strengthen your leadership skills. As well as practical training, we give you access to renowned business schools and experiential programmes for greater breadth and depth of learning.

A purpose to feel proud of

We’re proud to make a difference to people together. We’re values-driven with a commercial focus on performance - because the more profit we make, the more we can achieve for people.

What brings us together is a passionate belief in progress and people.

Read more about the values and purpose that drive us on our careers website.

How we hire

We aim to make our hiring process simple and fair:

1. Online application
2. Interview(s)
3. Decision and offer

We put the safeguarding of our customers, colleagues and contractors at the heart of everything we do and as such, certain roles will be subject to a DBS check.