Organisational Learning Lead Analyst (Strategic Insight Unit)

Job Title:Organisational Learning Lead Analyst (Strategic Insight Unit)

Salary: The starting salary is £45,073, which includes allowances totalling £2,841.

The salary is broken down as £42,232 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £50,385 Plus, a location allowance of £1,841 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.

Location: Westminster

Can you implement Organisational Learning and knowledge management frameworks, so we learn from what we do and from others?

The Metropolitan Police Service is looking for an exceptional individual to help drive the MPS’ transition to a learning organisation. This is an exciting and challenging role requiring energy, an inquisitive experiential mind-set and powerful people skills.

Organisational Learning is about designing and implementing the structures, processes and behaviours that capture knowledge from external, corporate and local sources across disciplines, improving what we do and holding knowledge as corporate memory. Amongst the first UK police forces to design a systemic framework, we are now implementing across the MPS.

As an Organisational Learning Lead you will head a small team tasked to operationalise the MPS’ Organisational Learning network, engaging senior leaders and subject experts. You will be responsible for managing and analysing Organisational Learning to ensure that risks and opportunities are clear, and that causal analysis, evaluation and learning have a route to action. You will ensure that learning is thematically evaluated and implemented, including at Strategic Groups.

You will use technology to develop effective Organisational Learning pathways and improve the speed and quality of knowledge capture. You will champion learning and knowledge sharing behaviours and an organisational culture of inquisitive learning, evidential practice and reflective thinking.

The Strategic Insight Unit develops and delivers insight and evaluation across the Metropolitan Police through a team including analysts, social and behavioural scientists. We provide Strategic Insight into learning derived from neighbourhood policing, public protection, serious and organised crime, operational support and counter-terrorism, and on explicit issues such as policing culture, operational practice and community-led learning. We also support policing research and evaluations, including national projects.

Please note this role requires expertise in knowledge management techniques and methodologies gained through recognised academic, workplace and professional environments. The role equally requires professional maturity and integrity, strong relational and communication skills and an understanding of team dynamics.

How to apply

Click the apply now button below and start your career at the Met. Applications will be via a detailed CV, Personal Statement, and online application form. Your personal statement should outline why you are interested in the role and how your skills and experience demonstrate your suitability for the role. (NB. Please do not attach 2 copies of your CV).

Completed applications must be submitted by 23:55 on 9th April 2024.

Essential Criteria

• preference for postgraduate in a discipline such as (but not limited to) organisational development, organisational behaviour, strategic HRM or systems thinking, as a minimum undergraduate 2:1 (or equivalent)
• extensive experience in large and complex multidisciplinary environments
• understanding of ways to develop roadmaps, structures and practices to capture Organisational Learning and integrate knowledge sharing behaviours into operational processes.
• ability to co-ordinate delivery of Organisational Learning across an organisation, including through knowledge management, information management, social networking and communities of practice.
• demonstrable analytical and information modelling skills including critical analysis of complex information to inform decision making and organisational performance.
• experience of organisational dynamics, systems and change management, comfortable with ambiguity and innovation
• experience in the design and implementation of projects, and essential project management skills
• experience of managing collaborative and partner relationships
• highly developed interpersonal skills with an ability to interact professionally with senior leaders and partners, and to manage customer expectations.
• developed negotiating and influencing skills including co-operative challenge.
• strong communication skills including verbal reasoning.
• strong personal and team skills including matrix leadership.

Desirable for the Role

• strong knowledge of policing and of Evidence Based Practice