Introduction

Organisation Development provides professional development support, including learning and development in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) for the Durham University community.

The University recognises the contribution its employees make to its success. It also recognises that to maintain a committed and competent workforce, it needs to ensure that there is adequate training and development provided for all.

All employees are entitled to an allocated amount of Continuous Professional Development time. To find out how much this is, please speak to your line manager.

The University is committed to making the most effective use of the talents, skills and abilities of its workforce and to helping all employees maximise the contribution they can make.

Development Opportunities

We support our staff in both their personal and professional development and provide a range of development opportunities that can help to enhance skills, knowledge and competencies through in-person or online workshops, eLearning, coaching, mentoring and leadership and management development programmes.  A range of leadership and management programmes include the following: -

• Team Leader Essentials.
• Managing People at Durham University.
• Diversifying Leadership Programme (Advance HE).
• Aurora Leadership Programme (Advance HE).
• Emerging Leaders Programme.
• Strategic Leaders Induction Programme.
• Operational Management Programme for Strategic Leaders.
• Transforming Leadership Programme (Advance HE).
• Matariki International Higher Education Leadership Programme.

Career Development tools for Professional Services Staff

There are a range of career development tools to support Professional Services staff which include the job families, realising your potential approach (behavioural framework), skills framework, development roles, and apprenticeships.  This supports an individual’s personal development journey and empowers staff members to be proactive about their career progression. This is our Career Pathway framework.

We aim to support careers by providing information about the range of roles across the University.  Each service area has roles which progress in their level of competency and our career pathways sets out roles in some of these areas and the skills, behaviours, qualifications, experiences and development that might be needed for different roles at different grades. Our staff can undertake training fully funded by the apprenticeship levy to gain professional qualifications available as an apprenticeship standard in a range of areas and levels currently from Level 2 (GCSE level) through to Level 7 (Master's level).

How to use the career pathways:

• Review the individual career pathways to see which area you want to learn more about.
  
  
• Within the pathway you can click onto specific roles to find out more about the job role and the skills, behaviours and experiences required.
  
  
• Each career pathway provides suggestions of training and development activities which may support your personal and professional development for you to consider.
  
  
• Review the Estates and Facilities career pathway approach for further information.