Workforce Development Officer

Workforce Development Officer

Secondment, Full Time

£26,927 to £31,678 per annum

Location: Chelmsford

Working Style: Anywhere worker

Closing Date: 27th July 2025

“Please note this vacancy is available as a secondment opportunity for up to 12 months”

This position has been classed as an anywhere worker role but has an expectation that the successful candidate will attend the office, in Chelmsford 1 day per month, with the remaining time for remote working if desired, in line with the organisation’s needs.

Our Business Area

The team sits within the wider Education Services directorate and contributes to the strategic goal of raising standards and outcomes across the education system. We support the development of a confident, skilled, and future-ready workforce through high-quality training and development pathways.

About This Role
This role is a key part of our communications and marketing function. You will lead on promoting our CPD offer to a wide audience, ensuring that opportunities are clearly communicated and well-attended. Your responsibilities will include:

• Managing and growing our professional Facebook page to engage the education community
• Creating and distributing internal and external newsletters
• Developing marketing materials and campaigns for CPD programmes
• Working with colleagues to ensure consistent messaging and branding
• Monitoring engagement and using insights to improve reach and effectiveness

To read more about our business area, please visit:

Education

The Opportunity

The Education Service is focused on continued improvement in the service to ensure every child and young person in Essex receives the best possible education and their individual needs are met. The Workforce Development team will deliver a professional development programme to equip the education workforce to meet the challenges ahead for education. 

This role is focused on the co-ordination of external development and training to ensure delivery is to a high standard, is consistent and offers high quality of outputs. This will be monitored on a regular basis by robust analysis and evaluation of learning using a number of tools to record activity and evaluate different courses. It will incorporate the planning process with evidence of aptitude and gaps in knowledge and experience that needs to be addressed. 

An experienced individual, able to prioritise and plan activity as required. Flexible to respond to new challenges and highlight the risks. 

Accountabilities

• Provide professional management support to the Business Development Manager.
• Responsible for ensuring good practice activity is shared with the external workforce using appropriate IT systems and toolkits.
• Ensure grant funding is linked to workforce development meets statutory duties.
• Track and monitor internal learning and development activities to evaluate the impact of learning and development using analytical skills and provide intelligence to the Business Development Manager.
• Work closely with the Systems and Intelligence team to collate data to enable senior leaders to influence strategic decision making linked to external workforce development.
• Use analytical data to identify gaps in the skills and knowledge of the external workforce
• Specific individual and shared targets and objectives are defined annually within the performance management framework.

The Experience You Will Bring

• Educated to A level or equivalent by experience. 
• Evidence of continuing professional development and expert knowledge in relevant professional area. 
• Evidence of good communication skills and the ability to influence others
• Evidence of a secure knowledge of IT systems
• Evidence of using data to challenge the ‘status quo’
• Experience of working within an education environment and supporting children and young people to achieve the best outcomes for them 

Why Essex?

As one of the largest and most dynamic UK local authorities, Essex offers a stimulating public service environment. Covering over 1,420 square miles and serving 1.8 million residents, we’re committed to transformational change and delivering better quality at lower cost. Recognised in the top three of the latest IMPOWER index for productivity, we ensure everyone matters in Everyone's Essex. With flexible working options and a focus on innovation, whether you are looking to develop your career or contribute to the local community, Essex is the ideal place for you.

In February 2025, Greater Essex was accepted onto the Government’s devolution priority programme, which will see local authorities in Essex work towards establishing a Mayoral Combined County Authority by May 2026. You can read more about devolution and local government reorganisation (LGR) on our careers site.

Essex County Council is proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We’re committed to interview all disabled applicants who choose to apply under our Job Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum requirements of the job. Please speak to our Recruiters if you require any reasonable adjustments during the process. We’re also committed to interview all veterans and care leavers, who meet the minimum requirements of the role for which they are applying.

Once you’ve secured your role within Essex County Council you will receive many great employee benefits, including support for unpaid carers and flexible working arrangements to accommodate their needs.

At Essex County Council, we value integrity and ethical behaviour. We kindly ask that you embrace our code of conduct and the Nolan principles, including throughout the recruitment process. Your commitment to these standards helps us maintain a positive and respectful workplace for everyone.

As part of employment with Essex County Council (ECC) should your role require a DBS check you will be required to register with the DBS update service.  The DBS update service ensures all registered DBS certificates are kept up to date and allows authorised parties to view the status of your certificate.  This is an annual subscription, and you will be responsible for ensuring this is maintained.  For further information on the DBS update service please go to https://www.gov.uk/dbs-update-service

Essex County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and expects all employees and volunteers to share this commitment.

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If you have queries on this role or require anything further, please email jamielea.wallis@essex.gov.uk

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