£40K/yr to £49K/yr
Gloucester, England
Permanent, Variable

Learning and Development Specialist

Posted by Claranet Limited.

About The Role

Essential Roles & Responsibilities

  • Leading role in growing our Sales Academy Programme, working with your team and wider business stakeholders to develop our sales staff, meeting the needs of the business and senior stakeholders.
  • Apply a clear understanding of the skills, knowledge and abilities required to support the organisation's vision and long-term goals by researching and authoring a programme of foundational learning accessible to all employees across the organisation.
  • In conjunction with your capability colleagues, source, design and deliver fit-for-purpose training programmes to meet current and future needs of the organisation.
  • Work with the Head of Learning, Development & Capability to promote a continuous development and self-study culture within Claranet that, in turn, contributes to our reward & recognition program.
  • Hold Quarterly Capability Reviews (QCRs) with HR Business Partners and department stakeholders to review objectives and training engagement.
  • Contribute to the annual forecasting and budgeting of training requirements by liaising with the Head of Learning, Development & Capability, department heads and Finance teams, ensuring it is aligned to the overall Learning & Development budget.
  • Promote a consistent message across training, learning and development workstreams, including onboarding & induction, probation, development objectives, appraisals and performance management programs.
  • Work with HR on all training and development initiatives across the business, such as: succession planning, coaching and mentoring programmes.

Change Management

  • Work closely with key stakeholders across the business to implement new Learning & Development workflows, whilst retiring legacy tooling and processes.

Service Tooling

  • Research & drive the adoption of innovative methods of development and content delivery, i.e. e-learning platforms.
  • Contribute to annual appraisals of external training partners and report appropriate recommendations using engagement metrics.

People & Wellbeing

  • Design, implement and lead a new Leadership Development Programme. This involves identifying the skills and competencies required for effective leadership within the organisation and developing a tailored program to enhance those skills.
  • Develop and deliver a programme that includes training, education, and awareness-building initiatives aimed at promoting a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace.
  • Working with the wider HR team, provide support and input to ensure that the employee benefit offering maintains an innovative and strong focus on wellbeing.
  • Work with members of the HR, L&D and Talent teams to author a compelling induction and on-boarding programme, taking input from members of the SLT and SMT communities.

About You

Position specifications

Behavioural competencies

  • Ability to create engaging training material through e-learning platforms and can adopt new tools and techniques to communicate with an audience.
  • A practical and common-sense approach to HR matters.
  • Willingness to travel to other sites in the business to engage with teams and grow your professional network.
  • A keen interest in helping others advance their careers through new innovative programs of learning & development.
  • Proactive and organised approach to managing consecutive workloads and the ability to prioritise deadlines.
  • Experience in delivering company-wide projects with a proactive and organised approach.
  • Manages conflict and challenges in an open and constructive manner.
  • You are self-motivated with a resourceful approach to problem solving and a willingness to learn.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills to help shape a new team dynamic.
  • Must be able to adapt to diverse workloads and maintain an attention to detail in a fast-moving environment.

Critical competencies

  • You will be a lead contributor, internally and externally recognised as an expert in your area.
  • Strong skills in collaborative working across the Microsoft 365 software suite.
  • Awareness of Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies and the ability to apply the best approach.
  • Confident & professional in verbal and written communication.

Favourable Skills

  • Have an interest in Data or Microsoft Power Platform and are keen to expand your understanding.
  • Understand the concepts of Cloud Computing and the benefits it affords.
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