Delivery lead: Directors Leadership Programme (DLP) and Senior Leadership Scheme (SLS)

Posting date:	23 June 2025
Salary:	£42,382 to £50,062 per year
Additional salary information:	National: £42,382 - £45,920 London: £46,169 - £50,062
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	06 July 2025
Location:	YO1 7PX
Company:	Government Recruitment Service
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	412830/3

Summary

In 2022, the Leadership College for Government (LCG) opened to equip civil service and public sector leaders with the skills, knowledge, and networks they need to solve today’s most complex problems.

We – the Accelerated Development Schemes Team – sit in the Leadership College for Government as part of the ambition to build a Government campus and curriculum for skills driven by Civil Service HR.

Joining ADS will present you with an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, high-profile environment with exposure to senior leaders as well as the chance to build and draw on rich networks across government. Our ambition is to accelerate the development of world-class leaders from across a range of diverse backgrounds for the future Civil Service.

This role of DLP and SLS delivery lead sits in the Accelerated Development Scheme (ADS).

Key responsibilities:

Leading the delivery of the Directors Leadership Programme and Senior Leadership Scheme for SCS 2 and SCS 1 in collaboration with the suppliers and internal learning design specialists.

Working with the private offices of Directors General and Permanent Secretaries for training programmes and other high level networking events and preparing briefings.

Team leadership to set an inclusive team culture to ensure high performance, development and engagement of team members.

Setting-up an alumni network of DLP and SLS’s graduates.

Creating networking and development opportunities in the line of continuous development framework and building community.

Overseeing and managing evaluation activities across the programmes in collaboration with Research and Evaluation Lead.

Overseeing the budget of multi million pounds working with finance lead.

Regularly checking-in with external suppliers on delivery schedule and make changes in the programme based on feedback received.

Providing high quality customer service to the participants of the DLP and SLS.

Data management of both programmes and timely response to relevant queries often received from Permanent Secretaries’ offices.

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