People & Organisational Development (POD) Officer
Job Title
People & Organisational Development (POD) Officer
Location
Belfast
Hours
36 hours per week generally 9am – 5.15pm Mon to Thurs and 9am – 2pm on a Friday. Hybrid policy states a min. of 2 days in the office.
Contract Type
Full-Time, Fixed-Term (12 Months Maternity Cover)
Closing Date
3 August 2026
Purpose of the Role
Reporting to the People & Organisational Development Manager, the People & Organisational Development (POD) Officer will be responsible for coordinating and delivering learning and development initiatives across all business areas.
Key Responsibilities
Learning & Development
- Lead the delivery of annual Training Calendar, ensuring organisational learning needs are met and continuously improved through evaluation, feedback and performance metrics.
- Collaborate with business divisions to identify development needs and design appropriate learning solutions aligned to organisational priorities.
- Act as a subject matter expert in the design and delivery of training programmes, including digital learning solutions.
- Maintain awareness of emerging learning and development trends, technologies and future capability requirements.
- Support the wider HR team in the delivery of training sessions and workshops.
- Assist the POD Manager in coordinating and delivering structured induction programmes for newly appointed managers.
- Manage development programmes
- Evaluate programme effectiveness against business KPIs and recommend improvements.
- Develop and present learning analytics
- Develop and implement communication plans to promote learning and development opportunities across the organisation.
- Manage relationships and contracts with external learning providers, ensuring quality and value for money through regular reviews.
- Support the development and monitoring of annual learning and development budgets.
- Administer the Voluntary Training and Educational Development Fund, ensuring compliance, governance and budget control.
- Support compliance with mandatory and statutory training requirements through monitoring, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
Core HR Talent & Performance Management
- Manage the Group Performance Management System (currently the Core HR Talent Module).
- Ensure the system is fully operational and ready for annual performance review cycles.
- Lead system optimisation, maintenance and troubleshooting activities.
- Support the rollout of future performance management developments across additional employee groups.
- Monitor and report on completion rates across divisions.
- Liaise with business areas to ensure compliance with performance management processes.
- Manage performance management timelines, communications and training materials.
- Conduct quality audits and reviews and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
- Deliver LEAD Framework training to Management, Professional and Technical (MPT) employees.
Person Specification
Essential Criteria
- Minimum of 3 years' experience within a Learning & Development environment.
- Minimum HNC qualification
- Experience analysing feedback and evaluation data and presenting findings to senior stakeholders.
- Experience managing internal stakeholders to deliver learning and development outcomes.
- Awareness of monitoring and controlling resources and associated project budgets.
- Experience managing projects.
- Able to satisfy the medical standards applicable to the post.
