Package Description
Role: LOTI Skills and Talent Manager
Division: London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI)
Responsible to: Delivery Lead: Digital Innovation
Starting salary: £50,721 per annum
Working Hours: 35 per week
Location: London Councils, 12 Arthur Street, London, and remotely.
Contract details: Full time, Two years fixed term with potential to extend.
If you have have any queries, please contact Genta Hajri, Delivery Lead: Digital Innovation - LOTI - genta.hajri@loti.london.
Please be advised that this role will close at 23:59 pm on Monday 21st April 2025.
Interviews: Round 1 - Tuesday 29 April (in person); Round 2 - Friday 2 May (online)
Job Introduction
Come and join the London Office of Technology and Innovation (LOTI), the capital’s local government innovation team, to help borough councils improve the way they recruit, train and develop the digital, data and innovation talent they need.
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to design, deliver and influence skills projects that can have an impact at a truly London-wide scale. You’ll be responsible for shaping a wide range of initiatives, from apprenticeships to recruitment support, and from training programmes to expert communities of practice. While LOTI has a number of skills and talent initiatives underway, you’ll be able to bring your full creativity and initiative to design and test new ways of meeting boroughs’ needs.
Role Responsibility
If London boroughs are to realise the full benefits of technology, data and innovation, it’s vital that they have access to people with the right skills, experience and knowledge. Yet many struggle to recruit, develop or access the talent they need.
In response, LOTI has supported boroughs with a number of skills and talent initiatives, including: identifying great recruiters they can work with; brokering pan-London apprenticeship schemes; finding high-quality training opportunities; hosting careers events and developing a LOTI jobs board and job description library.
We now seek a dedicated Skills and Talent Manager to help us build on this work and expand the range and breadth of what we do to provide boroughs with the talent they need. The role will deliver on existing initiatives while also having the creative space and freedom to shape new programmes of work that respond to the needs of London borough councils’ digital, tech, data and innovation teams.
In this role, you will:
- Identify, contract and oversee the work of recruiters who can support LOTI boroughs with their hiring needs. Manage and assess borough requests for recruitment support and direct them to the appropriate recruiter. Develop LOTI’s overall recruitment offer in response to boroughs’ needs.
- Ensure all Digital, Tech, Data and Innovation jobs being offered by LOTI members are added to and promoted via the LOTI jobs board and analyse the roles and associated salaries for trends.
- Help boroughs take an informed, strategic and inclusive approach to the structure and composition of their teams in Digital, Tech, Data and Innovation functions. Research best practice and help develop and curate LOTI’s library of job descriptions.
- Design and manage careers events and other initiatives to promote the benefits of working in local government digital, tech, data and innovation roles to diverse audiences. Represent the LOTI community at external careers events.
- Develop creative ideas and initiatives for meeting skills gaps in key areas where boroughs are finding it consistently hard to recruit permanent staff.
- Work with the LOTI team and its partners to arrange, design and/or deliver high-quality professional training opportunities for LOTI members. Curate and promote other interesting training and professional development opportunities available to boroughs.
- Help boroughs make effective use of apprenticeships, identifying training providers, and supporting or initiating pan-London schemes.
- Support the design and running of LOTI’s communities of practice in key skills areas where boroughs would like their colleagues to network with their peers. Explore the feasibility of establishing related schemes such as a pan-London mentoring programme.
- Conduct research related to recruitment, skills and talent development to help boroughs adopt leading practice, learning from other councils as well as other sectors and geographies. Present insights back to LOTI members in written and oral form.
- Research and find answers to questions boroughs raise about skills and talent. Build strong relationships with Digital and HR colleagues, as well as expert external partners to ensure LOTI has access to expert insights.
Supporting the LOTI Team
- Support broader LOTI team activities, such as helping facilitate workshops, assisting at events and contributing to LOTI’s wider work and mission.
- Help the LOTI team incorporate elements of skills and training into their own work and projects.
The Ideal Candidate
To be our ideal candidate you’ll:
Be a people person! Thriving on meeting and developing productive working relationships with new people and organisations. You’ll have strong interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on diplomacy and empathy.
Have a solid understanding of what good training and skills development looks like, and an eagerness to develop new solutions in the skills, development and recruitment space.
Be credible talking to council IT and digital teams about digital topics and comfortable with technical terms and language.
Have buckets of creativity and initiative. You’ll be proactive in spotting opportunities, comfortable designing new initiatives and approaches based on LOTI members’ feedback and needs.
Be highly organised and able to stay on top of multiple projects and opportunities at the same time.
Enjoy problem-solving in new, complex and sometimes ambiguous environments where both creativity and pragmatism are required.
Have experience in designing and running effective events and workshops.
Be comfortable working flexibly to meet the evolving needs of a small and fast-moving team, managing a mixed and varied workload, and responding to a range of stakeholders.
Be committed to constantly learning and honing your craft.
If that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!
All applications will be processed using a blind sifting method. This means that personal identifying details will be removed to ensure fair and unbiased shortlisting of applications.
Please note that anyone using generative AI tools such as ChatGPT or Copilot to answer sift questions may be marked down if they do not also include original content that demonstrates their aptitude, experience and skills. Using these tools also runs the risk of plagiarism.
About the Company
About LOTI
LOTI is London local government’s collaborative innovation team. We help London borough councils and the Greater London Authority (GLA) use innovation, data and technology to be high performing organisations, improve services and tackle London’s biggest challenges together. We connect more than 1,500 local government colleagues online and in person, helping them to share knowledge, build capacity, run projects and influence change together. Read all about our activities at: https://loti.london/. LOTI is part of London local government, hosted by London Councils.
About London Councils
London Councils is the collective of London local government, the 32 boroughs and the City of London Corporation. They come together through London Councils to work in collaboration to deliver their shared ambitions for London and Londoners.
Through lobbying, collaboration and partnership, we ensure the voice of the London boroughs are united, and heard at a local, regional and national level.
We also run a number of services on behalf of the boroughs including the Freedom Pass, Taxicard and Health Emergency Badge (HEB) and London Lorry Control Scheme (LLCS).
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