About The Role
What skills will we need in the future? And how can we plan now to make sure we have the people and skills we need?
As our Future Talent & Planning Specialist, you’ll help us answer those questions.
You’ll join our Talent & Development team and work across the Society to understand our future workforce needs and turn that insight into practical plans. You’ll look at where we are today, where we need to be in the future and what we need to do to get there.
You’ll use workforce planning, labour market insight and future skills trends to understand where our workforce is today, where we need it to be in the future and what skills and capabilities we’ll need to get there. You’ll identify gaps and develop practical plans to address them, working with teams to build, develop or attract the talent we’ll need.
This could mean developing future talent pipelines, creating new career pathways, strengthening early careers opportunities or identifying ways to develop skills from within. You’ll help us think beyond immediate recruitment needs and plan for the workforce we’ll need in the years ahead.
You’ll also have the opportunity to build partnerships with education providers, employability organisations and community groups. Together, you’ll help create meaningful routes into work and make careers at Alzheimer’s Society more accessible.
Could you help us understand where our future workforce needs will come from, what skills we’ll need and how we can create opportunities for people to build those skills and careers with Alzheimer’s Society?
Interviews are provisionally scheduled to take place on the 23rd & 24th November via MS Teams.
What you’ll do
You’ll help shape our approach to future talent and workforce planning, bringing together workforce insight, future skills, career development and inclusive routes into work.
You’ll:
Develop future workforce and talent plans that connect our longer-term workforce needs with practical actions to build, develop and attract the skills we’ll need.
Work with leaders, managers and People colleagues to understand current and future workforce requirements, identify skills and capability gaps and develop plans to address them.
Use workforce data, labour market insight and emerging skills trends to identify future opportunities, risks and areas where we need to plan ahead.
Translate workforce planning insight into practical talent and development activity, such as career pathways, early careers opportunities, internships, work experience and employability programmes.
Identify opportunities to build skills from within the Society, supporting internal mobility, career development and progression.
Build partnerships with education providers, community groups and employability organisations to create new and accessible routes into work.
Develop clear resources and guidance to help colleagues understand career pathways, progression and development opportunities.
Monitor and evaluate future talent activity, using measures such as progression, retention, inclusion and internal mobility to understand what is working and where we may need to adapt.
Identify and help remove barriers that can make it harder for people to access, develop and progress within the Society.
About you
Are you interested in what the future of work could look like and how organisations can plan for the skills they’ll need? Do you enjoy using insight to understand future workforce needs and turning that into practical plans and opportunities for people?
You’ll have experience of workforce planning and understand how it can help an organisation prepare for future skills and capability needs. You’ll be able to look at current workforce data and future requirements, identify gaps and translate your findings into practical workforce and talent plans. You’ll also understand how talent development, career pathways and early careers activity can support those plans.
You’ll be comfortable working with workforce data and other…