Talent Development Partner
| Posting date: | 19 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £37,677 to £41,289 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 October 2025 |
| Location: | Altrincham, Greater Manchester |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Blue Octopus Recruitment Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | TCHR194590 |
Summary
We're thrilled to share that our HR function is evolving into the newly established People and Culture Department. This exciting transformation is a testament to our dedication to creating a vibrant, inclusive, and people-first organisation. To support this transformation, we are looking for a passionate and dedicated Talent Development Partner to join our team.
About the Role: As a Talent Development Partner, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and overseeing talent and development programs to enhance skills, improve team and individual performance, and foster career growth. You will operationalise initiatives as part of the TSCG Deal for Colleagues, enhancing the onboarding experience, performance management process, career path development, training plans, and competency frameworks. Your efforts will ensure that colleagues are engaged and equipped for future challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee the management of talent initiatives, including the development and execution of leadership development programmes.
Ensure adherence to mandatory training as part of our compliance obligations, in addition to developmental training.
Provide a business partnership service for agreed departments/directorates to ensure TSCG's People First commitments and People and Culture best practice processes are embedded.
Partner with managers to implement workforce and job design, talent and succession strategies that enable the Group to build the workforce needed for the delivery of strategic goals.
Champion and role model the use of workforce data analytics to support and drive decisions.
Collaborate with the Talent Attraction and Development Manager to map career families and pathways for the deployment of our Career Pathways initiative.
Lead the role for Apprenticeships, including planning the growth of our offering, optimising funding available, and providing meaningful apprenticeships that support future needs and benefit individuals' careers.
Skills and Experience:
Education and Qualifications: CIPD qualified to chartered status or substantial equivalent HR experience. Be educated to level 7 or have experience demonstrating the capabilities associated with a qualification at that level.
Knowledge: Knowledge of learning and development, talent attraction, and HR best practice. Understanding of IT applications in HR environments, EDI theory and practice, best practices in employee experience and employee voice, and employment law.
Experience: Significant experience in a HR environment at a professional/advisory level. Experience in managing conflict and sensitive issues, partnering senior managers to identify workforce design, skills and capabilities, and driving meaningful talent and succession initiatives. Experience in managing learning and development activities, redesigning performance management processes and systems, and implementing LMS or online Career Pathway systems
Skills and Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Ability to organise and analyse organisational workforce data, translate data into insights, and present and facilitate sessions with leadership teams. A strong focus on delivery of milestones and outcomes, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy
Our Values:
Respectful: Full respect. For each other, ourselves, and the world around us.
Why Join Us?
Be part of a dynamic and evolving department that values innovation and inclusivity.
Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals dedicated to making a positive impact.
Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development.
If you are passionate about talent development and eager to contribute to a people-first organisation, we would love to hear from you!
About TSCG – Making a difference, together
At Trafford & Stockport College Group (TSCG), you belong to a team that’s committed to shaping brilliant futures – for students and colleagues alike. We believe in unlocking the potential that exists in everyone and when you work with us, your individual skills and experiences are valued. You’ll be part of a supportive and friendly community, where everyone brings their own unique perspective and strengths, and where the work you do is appreciated and celebrated.
We’re deeply rooted in our local communities, with strong connections to businesses, industry, and universities. Together, we’re all working toward a shared mission: to elevate skills, create opportunities, shape futures, and transform lives.
TSCG is not just a place to work – it’s a place to belong, to thrive, and to make a difference.
Exceptional Benefits Package
About the Role: As a Talent Development Partner, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and overseeing talent and development programs to enhance skills, improve team and individual performance, and foster career growth. You will operationalise initiatives as part of the TSCG Deal for Colleagues, enhancing the onboarding experience, performance management process, career path development, training plans, and competency frameworks. Your efforts will ensure that colleagues are engaged and equipped for future challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Oversee the management of talent initiatives, including the development and execution of leadership development programmes.
Ensure adherence to mandatory training as part of our compliance obligations, in addition to developmental training.
Provide a business partnership service for agreed departments/directorates to ensure TSCG's People First commitments and People and Culture best practice processes are embedded.
Partner with managers to implement workforce and job design, talent and succession strategies that enable the Group to build the workforce needed for the delivery of strategic goals.
Champion and role model the use of workforce data analytics to support and drive decisions.
Collaborate with the Talent Attraction and Development Manager to map career families and pathways for the deployment of our Career Pathways initiative.
Lead the role for Apprenticeships, including planning the growth of our offering, optimising funding available, and providing meaningful apprenticeships that support future needs and benefit individuals' careers.
Skills and Experience:
Education and Qualifications: CIPD qualified to chartered status or substantial equivalent HR experience. Be educated to level 7 or have experience demonstrating the capabilities associated with a qualification at that level.
Knowledge: Knowledge of learning and development, talent attraction, and HR best practice. Understanding of IT applications in HR environments, EDI theory and practice, best practices in employee experience and employee voice, and employment law.
Experience: Significant experience in a HR environment at a professional/advisory level. Experience in managing conflict and sensitive issues, partnering senior managers to identify workforce design, skills and capabilities, and driving meaningful talent and succession initiatives. Experience in managing learning and development activities, redesigning performance management processes and systems, and implementing LMS or online Career Pathway systems
Skills and Abilities: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Ability to organise and analyse organisational workforce data, translate data into insights, and present and facilitate sessions with leadership teams. A strong focus on delivery of milestones and outcomes, and the ability to work under pressure and to deadlines while maintaining a high degree of accuracy
Our Values:
Respectful: Full respect. For each other, ourselves, and the world around us.
Why Join Us?
Be part of a dynamic and evolving department that values innovation and inclusivity.
Collaborate with a diverse team of professionals dedicated to making a positive impact.
Enjoy opportunities for professional growth and development.
If you are passionate about talent development and eager to contribute to a people-first organisation, we would love to hear from you!
About TSCG – Making a difference, together
At Trafford & Stockport College Group (TSCG), you belong to a team that’s committed to shaping brilliant futures – for students and colleagues alike. We believe in unlocking the potential that exists in everyone and when you work with us, your individual skills and experiences are valued. You’ll be part of a supportive and friendly community, where everyone brings their own unique perspective and strengths, and where the work you do is appreciated and celebrated.
We’re deeply rooted in our local communities, with strong connections to businesses, industry, and universities. Together, we’re all working toward a shared mission: to elevate skills, create opportunities, shape futures, and transform lives.
TSCG is not just a place to work – it’s a place to belong, to thrive, and to make a difference.
Exceptional Benefits Package