Upskilling Expert

Job reference:002930

Salary:£45,243 plus London allowance of £3,520 if applicable

Closing date:11/03/2026

Department:Advice Content

Location:Blended between office and home (England and Wales)

Employment type:Fixed Term

Hours Per Week36.25 hours per week / Open to flexible working

Job posted date:11/02/2026

Contract Duration:12 months

Job Description

Location: Blended between office and home (England and Wales). Time in office negotiable

The Upskilling Expert will play a key role in enabling colleagues across the department to thrive in the new operating model, adopt new systems and technologies, and build the skills needed to deliver high-quality advice and services.

The Upskilling Expert will lead on developing, testing, and embedding approaches that support employees to succeed in the new departmental structure. This includes creating departmental and team learning pathways, applying learning design principles, supporting adoption of new ways of working, facilitating or organising workshops, coaching sessions, and team collaboration, and connecting initiatives across teams to ensure maximum impact.

You will work closely with the Sustainability and Practice Lead to ensure departmental learning and capability-building activities align with the department’s strategy, enabling colleagues to deliver efficient, sustainable, and future-ready advice services.

You will lead and/or connect activities such as:

• Developing high-level end-to-end processes and new ways of working that support the department’s transformation objectives.
• Testing and embedding new processes, systems, and technologies to enhance operational efficiency and employee performance.
• Leading departmental learning and development initiatives that enable employees to build new skills and advance their careers.
• Supporting adoption of tools, frameworks, and innovations across teams, ensuring consistency and scalability.
• Capturing lessons learned and codifying best practice for wider dissemination and ongoing improvement.

Please provide details in your cover letter to evidence the following essential criteria. Please make sure your cover letter provides evidence for the essential criteria succinctly.

• Proven experience designing and delivering learning, upskilling, or professional development programs in a complex organisation, applying learning principles and iterative approaches.
• Strong understanding of change management, adoption of new processes, systems, or technologies, and embedding sustainable ways of working, including experience leading or supporting employees through change initiatives.
• Experience designing learning or adoption strategies that enhance cross-departmental collaboration and coordination, including through digital platforms.

Citizens Advice offers confidential advice online, over the phone, and in person, for free. Through our national network of charities, we give people the knowledge and the confidence they need to find their way forward – whoever they are, and whatever their problem.

Do you want to work for an organisation that makes a difference, every single day, to people from all walks of life? The people that turn to Citizens Advice need help overcoming an obstacle in their lives – from debt to evictions to trouble at work – and you can be key to them getting the support they need in the quickest, easiest, and most effective way.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is of strategic importance within the organisation and recognised as integral to all we do as a service.

Central to pursuing our EDI mission is building diverse and inclusive teams in which everyone has a sense of belonging. We believe inclusion is a social justice issue - a principle that underpins our all EDI work. To that end, we particularly welcome applications from people we would like to see better represented in our organisation and sector - people of colour, LGBTQ+ people and disabled people. We follow the social model of disability. We will offer an interview to disabled candidates who indicate they wish their application to be considered under our Disability Confident Interview Commitment where they meet our selection criteria in their application. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances where it is not practicable or appropriate, we may limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates. We will provide reasonable adjustments as needed.

We’re a flexible employer, so this role may suit anyone who’d prefer a flexible arrangement to help their work/life balance, many of our colleagues spend most of their time working remotely. Whilst we prefer a blended approach between a local office, if one is near you, and home we’re open to being flexible on location, occasionally a role may require you to be based in a certain location if that's the case it will be detailed in the advert or job description. This can be discussed in more detail during your interview.

The National Citizens Advice operates from offices in England and Wales, with 4 regional offices based in Cardiff, London, Birmingham and Leeds, therefore all successful applicants must be based within England or Wales.

Please be aware that Citizens Advice is not a sponsoring organisation. Therefore the successful applicant must already possess the right to work in the UK or be able to secure the right to work in the UK independently.

We have been awarded the top charity in Third sectors' employer index, where it's recognised that Citizens Advice is an organization that not only prioritizes the people we serve but also values the wellbeing of its employees.

Citizens Advice seeks to redeploy internal staff who are at risk or under notice of redundancy and will prioritise them in the recruitment process where necessary. If you have been confirmed as at risk or under notice of redundancy please ensure you indicate this in the at-risk box in your application.

Please note, in the event of a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the application early.

This vacancy closes at 23.59 on the closing date.

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