Shared Services

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for our Shared Services Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

At BAE Systems we are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

Our Shared Services Business

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of the Shared Services team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world.

Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

Curriculum Design Practitioner

Would you like to make a difference in defence by developing a variety of vital skills across BAE Systems whilst supporting UK sites to embrace change through the conception, creation and implementation of innovative assessment techniques? We currently have a vacancy for a Curriculum Design Practitioner at our site in Preston.

As a Curriculum Design Practitioner, you will be responsible for the coordination of Subject Matter Experts at our UK sites, to create modern, blended and impactful curricula for Apprenticeships and Skills Training.

The role is a fantastic opportunity for an individual who is passionate about learning to come to a large organisation such as BAE and use their knowledge in developing curriculum content, supporting stakeholders in continuous improvement and be part of an inclusive team.

Your main responsibilities as a Curriculum Design Practitioner will involve:

• Identifying and recommending changes to enhance the efficient and effective delivery of training across our UK businesses
• You will be able to support UK teams with the design and production of non-qualification standards, exploiting all modern learning and assessment techniques
• You will work collaboratively with the UK delivery sites to develop learning and assessment materials for virtual and face-to-face delivery.
• You will be promoting the use of digital resources to benefit learning, skills delivery, teaching and continued innovation
• Creating and sustaining a culture of collaboration to enable the sharing of best practice and enhance the overall learner experience at a UK level
• Engaging with external organisations to leverage best practice and promote a shared culture of continuous improvement throughout BAE Systems in relation to all aspects of teaching, learning and assessment and the learner experience
• Being able to utilise modern delivery methods via the latest learning approaches such as: social, collaborative, video, app-based, user-generated content, gamification and digital learning whilst recognising the continued need for more formal delivery techniques where appropriate.

Your skills and qualifications:

• Online curriculum design experience/Curriculum design experience
• Experience of using LMS or VLE (Virtual Learning)
• Understanding of the intent, implementation and impact of the planned and delivered curriculum
• Working within training and education with a sound knowledge of Ofsted/SDS and other regulatory bodies
• Educated to Degree level or above with a teaching qualification e.g. PGCE or Cert Ed

What we are looking for in you:

Experienced in engaging others and promoting participation in activity that promotes improved and modernised teaching learning and assessment through a modernised curriculum.

• Outstanding organisational, communication, collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Practice and motivated to collaborate with others to support the development of others.
• Process driven, with attention to detail and output orientated
• Able to work autonomously for a shared outcome

Location: Preston

Salary: £36,000+ DOE

Benefits:

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.