Job Title: Leadership Academy Course Programme Lead

Salary: The starting salary is £59,839, which includes allowances totalling £2,928.

The salary is broken down as £56,911 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £69,342. Plus, a location allowance of £1,928 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Central London locations, Hendon, Marlowe House, NSY and potentially other locations across the MPS.

In line with A New Met for London to develop a strong cohort of leaders, the Commissioner has made a commitment to help set our leaders up to succeed by ensuring a leadership development programme for all leaders every year.

This will be delivered through the new Leadership Academy providing a contemporary and impactful learning offer to our leaders

This role will lead an internal team and manage external contractors to produce high quality learning content for leadership programmes. The role holder will ensure content design within leadership programmes support the objectives of the MPS and is relevant to officers and staff, enabling the MPS to have confidence that colleagues have the appropriate training for their specific role and meets the required national standards or licenses where applicable.

Specifically, take ownership of the design and development of the MPS Senior Leaders Programme, a key deliverable for the Leadership Academy. This involves managing the in-year leadership CPD offer, whilst concurrently leading the analysis and design of the following years leadership CPD.

This role will lead on Positive Action (PA) for the Academy, this includes co-ordinating the inclusion of PA into existing leadership products, and where necessary the inception of PA initiatives into the Leadership Academy portfolio.

Coaching and Mentoring forms a critical aspect of the leadership academy offer to the business, this role will manage this capability through internal and external stakeholders.

This role will need to engage across the whole organisation championing leadership development in support of NMfL.

How to apply

To begin your career at the Met, please click the "apply now" button below. The application process requires a comprehensive CV, a Personal Statement, and an online application form. In your Personal Statement (1 A4 page max), you should explain your interest in the position and illustrate how your skills and experiences make you a suitable candidate. Please note that you should not submit two copies of your CV, and ensure that your documents are saved in either PDF or Word format, clearly labelled as CV and/or Personal Statement.

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 31st July 2025.

Once received, your application will be reviewed against eligibility criteria, following this, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager.

Following application review, successful candidates will be invited to interview.

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Knowledge

• Expert knowledge/understanding of leadership models and practical application for personal growth with demonstrable expertise in learning design methodologies, adult learning principles, and learning technologies relevant to leadership training.
• Conduct comprehensive Training Needs Analyses (TNA) to identify learning gaps, define performance objectives, and align training initiatives with organisational goals.
• Knowledge of learning and organisational development and experience of delivering products within a business environment.
• Ability to provide learning programmes aligned to immediate and long-term business requirements that demonstrate return on investment and impact.
• Knowledge of leadership curriculum and how this aligns to the wider organisational strategy.

Skills

Lead (providing leadership and assurance of this skill):

• A proven track record of managing high profile programmes of work; using risk management appropriately and planning and developing relationships with key stakeholders. Managing links and dependencies between complex and interrelated issues.
• Commercial and financial acumen – ensuring financial spend is accurately profiled, managed and reported.

Master (highest level of skill, operating as MPS lead in this area):

• Strategic scanning on new learning requirements for long term organisational health.
• Proficiency in understanding how learning management systems (LMS), authoring tools, and multimedia development software can enhance design processes.

Advanced (highly competent in this skill and could train others):

• Learning & Development (L&D) technology and tools.
• L&D business engagement.
• L&D course continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of L&D tools and systems.
• Programme commissioning.
• Learning delivery methods.
• Analysing options to support decision-makers.
• Business change.
• Identifying key dependencies and inter-dependencies within and across activities.
• Assess and anticipate risk and escalate as needed.
• Presentation and facilitation skills.

Intermediate (executes the skill competently with minimal supervision):

• Creative thinking.
• Business writing.
• Microsoft packages (Excel/PPT/SharePoint/Word).

Qualifications

• MSc or equivalent qualification in Instructional Design, Education, Learning & Development, or a related field.
• Professional certification in instructional design or training (e.g., CIPD Level 5-7) or similar.
• ED&I management (e.g., CMI/ILM Lvl 4-7) or equivalent.
• Coaching and Mentoring (CMI/ILM Lvl 5-7) or equivalent.
• Strong experience in project management related to learning initiatives – ideally with formal project management training (e.g., Prince2, Agile) or similar.
• Proven experience designing and delivering leadership development programmes within large, complex, or regulated organisations (public sector experience advantageous).
• Membership of a professional body like CMI, IoL, CIPD, Coaching and Mentoring governing body is preferable.

Experience

• Experience of senior leadership.
• Experience of operating on peer-to-peer basis at senior level - providing guidance, insight and advice across a broad range of business-related matters.
• High levels of strategic awareness, driven, forward thinking and able to communicate with high levels of confidence at a senior level across the breadth of our key internal and external stakeholder groups, including Management Board and senior leaders within the Met.
• Experience of working with local and national stakeholder groups.
• Experience of managing leadership development requirements, programme design, programme commissioning, solutions delivery, and programme evaluation.