Head of Training Design (T31)

Date Posted:

2024-07-31

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Near Reading

Position Role Type:

Unspecified

Head of Training Design

Hybrid/Near Reading

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.

Our business

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.

The role

This is a key role for a talented and innovative senior leader with the drive to transform a specific area of our Integrated Training Design Service (TDS). Leading this aspect of the ITDS this person will enable the business to deliver learning that is blended, active and provides customer delight.

In this role there is great scope to make a significant and tangible impact to Royal Navy Training Design Services. Working in a dynamic business this role demands collaboration across a range of stakeholders, our ideal candidate will have led and operated in a commercially focused learning partnership, working at the strategic/operational level.

They will manage the implementation of major change initiatives; lead the transformation training design team in response to new training requirements and will oversee the production and maintenance of all relevant training design documentation including Formal Training Statement ( FTS), Training Performance Statement (TPS), Training Objectives (TOs), Workplace Training Statement (WTS), Residual Training Gap Statement (RTGS), Learning Specifications (LSpecs) and Assessment Strategy (AStrat) and all media requirements for course delivery.

This role will combine needs analysis and specialist knowledge to enable all teams to create relevant L&D interventions. Although this position will be working in a military environment, the right candidate does not need a military background. 

Main duties will include:

• Manage the T31 Training Design Team, circa 30+ personnel, in producing DSAT compliant documentation for multiple MOD sites within standardised design processes

• Manage the implementation of major change initiatives; lead the transformation training design team in response to new training requirements producing and maintaining Training Design from Formal Training Statement (FTS) (including the Training Performance Statement (TPS), Training Objectives (TOs), Workplace Training Statement (WTS), Residual Training Gap Statement (RTGS)) so that they adequately and accurately reflect the Authority’s requirement. 

• Review of all in scope training courses, maintaining course materials and curricula, trainer competence requirements, design documentation, delivery methods and media to ensure that such training courses are transformed using active learning methodologies and appropriate assessments to satisfy relevant learner requirement
• Capture and articulate training needs arising from new or changing requirements through the transformation period  
• In agreement with the transformation key member, provide discrete Training Analysis to recommend new or transformational training requirements and identify the optimum training solution to meet the identified requirement, balancing time, cost and quality.

• Provide training solution(s) to