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Talent Management Officer

£37,602 - £45,564

Fixed Term

Full Time

Wandsworth / Richmond / Home Working (office based 3 - 4 times a week)

Fixed Term Contract – March 2029

Objective of role  

Work Match, Richmond and Wandsworth council’s jobs and skills brokerage is recruiting for a Talent Management Officer to add further resource to an already successful employment delivery team.

The Talent Management Officer is the key link between our resident engagement process and the identification of a resident’s skills, ambition and development needs prior to supporting them on their employment pathway. The Talent Management Officer will develop a talent pool of residents to support the ambition of Work Match in supporting local people to gain local employment. 

About you

You will be an ambitious self-starter, ready to take on the challenge of joining a successful job brokerage service for talented residents of Wandsworth. Your employability and employment support skills will deliver a high-quality resident focused employment support and resourcing service by engaging with local people.

The ideal candidate will be able to deliver high quality advice and guidance, CV preparation, job readiness preparation and be able to successfully match local people to jobs created in the associated boroughs that Work Match operates alongside our Business Engagement teams. 

This is an exciting time to join Work Match and help in the continued delivery of high-quality business engagement activity and to help residents to realise their potential and raise their aspirations to enter the local labour market. 

The Role

The primary purpose of this position is to effectively engage with a wide range of Wandsworth residents who have registered with the councils Work Match service. To assess the work readiness of these residents and enable them to access appropriate employment support or training. To Manage a talent pool of work ready Wandsworth residents and liaise with Work Match colleagues to ensure these residents can be placed into local job openings.

The post holder will also work closely with Work Match’s Partnerships and Commissioning team to ensure training delivered is resident responsive and demand led, based on evidence gathered from the local area

Essential Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of barriers to work for the unemployed and underemployed.
• Knowledge of a range of suitable provision to help further enhance an individual’s work readiness. 
• Experience of delivering high impact and innovative programmes of employability.
• Experience of managing a wide-ranging caseload of people looking to access employment and training opportunities.
• Experience of providing advice, guidance and developing action plans for those wishing to enter employment and training.
• Ability to ascertain the work readiness of a resident engaging with Work Match, to establish their barriers to employment and create interventions to help address these.

Closing Date:  Sunday 8th February 2026

Shortlisting Date: Monday 9th February 2026

Interview Date: TBC (week 23rd February 2026)

Presentation: Details to be confirmed after offer of interview

For an informal conversation please contact Andrew Harland Employment Delivery Manager via andrew.harland@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk

Secondment

All internal applicants for this secondment must seek permission from their current line manager before applying. Failure to do so may result in the secondment not being authorised.

We may close this vacancy early once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.

Richmond & Wandsworth Better Service Partnership are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services. 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process, please let us know.

We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Some posts may be exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to these posts will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to attract, develop, and reward our employees such as 40 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), flexible working and a generous pension plan.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils