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Operational Training Academy Learning Design Lead

Hybrid in London·Part-time·Added today (last checked 7 Nov)

Home Office

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Our summary

Salary
£53,850 - £56,850 a year

About £3,480 - £3,630 a month after tax.

Work mode
Hybrid, London
Contract
Part-time
Closing date
Apply by Friday 20 November
Holiday
25 days holiday
Pension
28.97% employer pension

Skills

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • A recognised qualification at Level 4 or above in teaching, education, learning and development, instructional design, digital learning or a closely related discipline, or demonstrable equivalent professional expertise.
  • Substantial practical experience of designing, creating and improving structured learning solutions, applying appropriate learning theory and instructional-design methods across classroom, digital, blended or workplace learning, including learning objectives, activities, resources and assessment approaches.
  • Strong knowledge of accessible and inclusive learning design, with the ability to translate complex subject matter and operational capability requirements into clear, engaging and usable learning pathways and proportionate solutions.
  • Experience of leading learning-design professionals, setting professional standards and assuring the quality, accessibility and consistency of their work.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders and subject-matter experts, providing authoritative professional advice and constructive challenge to shape effective learning solutions.
  • Strong strategic judgement, with experience of prioritising a learning-design portfolio and managing risks, dependencies and competing demands.

Nice to have

  • Experience as a teacher, lecturer, trainer, instructional designer, learning-content creator or digital-learning designer.
  • Experience designing learning for an operational, regulated or safety-critical environment.

Education & certifications

Driving licence
Due to the nature of the work, driving is a key requirement for this role. It is essential you hold a full valid UK manual driving licence at the time of application.

Your licence will be checked at interview stage and you must confirm you hold one when you apply.

A recognised qualification at Level 4 or above in teaching, education, learning and development, instructional design, digital learning or a closely related discipline, or demonstrable equivalent professional expertise.
Qualifications such as PGCE, CertEd, Level 4 Certificate in Education and Training, Level 5 Diploma in Education and Training, CIPD learning qualifications, or recognised instructional-design or digital-learning qualifications would be relevant.
It is essential that you hold the required qualification for this role at the time of application. Evidence of your qualification will be checked during the selection process. Candidates who do not hold the required qualification or are unable to provide evidence, will be deemed ineligible and withdrawn from the recruitment process.

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

£49,850 - £56,850

National pay locations: Basingstoke, Bedford, Belfast, Cardiff, Castle Donington, Dover, Durham, Felixstowe, Folkestone, Glasgow, Hull, Immingham, Leeds, Liverpool, Loughborough, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Salford, Sheffield, Solihull, Stansted, Stoke on Trent, Swansea £49,850 - £52,850.
London pay locations: Heathrow, London £53,850 - £56,850.

In addition to your salary, a career with the Home Office offers a range of benefits, including:

  • A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.
  • In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
  • 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service to 30 days.
  • Eight days of public holidays, plus one additional privilege day
  • Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.
  • See more of our benefits on our careers website.

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Visa & relocation

Open to UK nationals only.

The role

The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.

Immigration Enforcement is responsible for enforcing the government's immigration laws, tackling illegal migration, removing foreign national offenders and immigration offenders from the UK. It also aims to disrupt the organised criminal groups that exploit the vulnerable for their personal gain. Learn more on the Immigration Enforcement careers page.

The Learning Design Lead sits within the Operational Training Academy (OTA) and will lead its learning-design profession, setting the strategy, methodology and standards for accessible, evidence-led learning. This is an opportunity to shape how operational capability needs are translated into consistent, high-quality and implementation-ready learning across specialist portfolios.

The Learning Design Lead will provide senior professional leadership for learning design across the Operational Training Academy. The postholder will own the OTA Learning and Development Strategy and establish the methodology, standards and governance needed to create accessible, inclusive, evidence-led and operationally relevant learning.

Working with operational leaders, policy owners and subject-matter experts, the postholder will ensure learning begins with an evidenced capability need and clear workplace outcomes. They will maintain clear accountability between operational experts, who own the requirement and technical content, and learning professionals, who determine how that need is translated into effective learning.

The role will set strategic direction for face-to-face, digital, blended and workplace learning, including appropriate use of innovation and learning technology. It will own product-lifecycle governance, including objectives, accessibility, documentation, ownership, version control, review, revalidation and retirement.

The postholder will govern and prioritise the design portfolio, line manage and professionally lead three HEO Learning Design and Development Partners embedded across operational portfolios, and flex capacity in response to priority, demand and risk. They will use performance, evaluation and assurance evidence to commission redesign and continuous improvement.

The role will represent learning design through OTA and IE Academy governance, providing authoritative advice and constructive challenge while building a cohesive, capable and inclusive professional learning-design function.

You may be required to undertake the same or a similar role within a different team or teams (where possible, at your base location or within reasonable travel distance), depending on business priorities. With appropriate training and support, this will provide opportunities to broaden both your experience and skill set.

What you'll do

  • Own and deliver the OTA Learning and Development Strategy, professional design methodology and standards for accessible, inclusive and evidence-led learning.
  • Govern and prioritise the learning-design portfolio, including learning-needs analysis, bespoke learning and significant redesign.
  • Line manage and professionally develop three embedded HEO Learning Design and Development Partners, allocating and flexing capacity across portfolios.
  • Partner with operational leaders, policy owners and subject-matter experts to translate capability requirements into proportionate learning responses.
  • Set strategic direction for face-to-face, digital, blended and workplace learning, promoting appropriate and responsible innovation.
  • Own product-lifecycle and design governance, including objectives, accessibility, documentation, version control, review, revalidation and retirement.
  • Use performance, evaluation and assurance evidence to commission improvement and redesign.
  • Represent the learning-design profession through OTA and IE Academy governance, providing authoritative advice and constructive challenge.

How you'll work

Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours

This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working. This role is also suitable for part-time working hours, with a minimum requirement to work 30 hours per week due to business requirements.

Regular travel to Operational Training Academy (OTA) / training locations across the UK.

Apply before

Apply before 11:55 pm on Friday 20th November 2026

Reference number

488984

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Operational Delivery

Number of jobs available

1

Location

Basingstoke, Bedford, Belfast, Cardiff, Castle Donington, Dover, Durham, Felixstowe, Folkestone, Glasgow, Hull, Immingham, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Loughborough, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Peterborough, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Salford, Sheffield, Solihull, Stoke-on-Trent, Swansea, Stansted, Heathrow

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Leadership
  • Changing and Improving
  • Communicating and Influencing
  • Managing a Quality Service

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Location Preferences

You can select up to three locations in order of preference. Please ensure that these are locations you are prepared to travel to. If you are offered a role at one of your preferred location(s) and you decline, your application will be withdrawn.

Reserve List

A reserve list may be held for a period of up to 12 months from which further appointments may be made. There is no guarantee that being held on a reserve list will lead to a job offer. Further information can be found on our website.

Reserve lists will be held for each location. Candidates will be appointed in merit order by location.

Breaking Tied Scores

The behaviours and strengths have been ranked in order of importance to enable us to differentiate between candidates with tied interview scores.

Job contact

  • Name : Home Office Resourcing Centre
  • Email : HORCCampaignTeamIE@homeoffice.gov.uk

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Hiring process

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

We will endeavour to conduct the selection process in line with the dates indicated below, but cannot guarantee that these will not, where necessary, be revised.

  1. Application - by 20th November 2026

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete:

  • CV
  • Personal Statement (maximum 1000 words).

Your CV should consist of your career history, qualifications and skills/experience, including any key achievements in each role. Your CV will be scored against the experience required for the role as noted within the essential criteria.

The Personal Statement should be aligned to and demonstrate how you meet the skills and experience set out in the essential criteria, detailed in the job description.

For guidance and information on how to construct your application (CV, Personal Statement and Behaviours), you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers website.

2. Sift - from 24th November 2026

The sift will be held on the Personal Statement and CV, as listed in the advert.

3. Interview - from 14th December 2026

If you are successful at sift stage, you will be invited to an interview that will be Behaviour based questions and Strength based questions.

The interview will take place online via Teams.

For guidance and information on what to expect and how to prepare for an interview, you are encouraged to visit Civil Service Careers.

If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you've made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website.

Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

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About the company & team

HO - Immigration Enforcement

  • Email : HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Additional information

Northern Ireland is part of the UK. As stated in the Belfast Agreement, also known as the Good Friday Agreement, the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of Ireland recognise the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish or British, or both, as they may so choose, and accordingly confirm that their right to hold both British and Irish citizenship is accepted by both Governments and would not be affected by any future change in the status of Northern Ireland.

All Civil Servants are expected to comply with the Civil Service Code, and its core values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.

As well as successfully obtaining UK Security Vetting clearance, you will also be subject to an additional Integrity Check, as part of the pre-employment process, to determine your suitability to work for Border Force or Immigration Enforcement. For further information on what this involves, please visit our website.

If a person with disabilities is at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should:

  • Contact Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs
  • Complete the "Assistance Required" section in the "Additional Requirements" page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you're deaf, a language service professional

If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service/Disclosure Scotland/Access NI on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct.

If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.

For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk

For further information on the Access NI confidential checking service telephone: the Access NI Helpline on 0300 200 7888 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email accessni@ani.x.gsi.gov.uk

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

If you feel that your application has not been treated in accordance with the Civil Service Recruitment Principles. and you wish to make a complaint, then contact the Government Recruitment Service via HOrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response that you receive, then you can contact the Civil Service Commission.

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