Kennedys is looking for a Learning and Development Advisor to join our Learning and Development team. This is an exciting opportunity to join a global HR team that offers great potential as the organisation goes through an exciting period of change.
The role is an exciting HR development role for someone passionate about building their career in Learning & Development. It will support the team to deliver a variety of learning initiatives, as well as play a pivotal role in promoting learning and development opportunities across the firm. The successful person will have a passion for learning and development, have strong planning and organisational skills; have strong communication and IT skills and the ability to build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the firm.
Our hybrid working policy will allow the successful person to work flexibly from home and either our Chelmsford or Manchester offices.
Team
Kennedys HR team support the firm around the world with all people related matters.
The HR team is based in Chelmsford, London and Manchester for the UK, Belfast and Dublin for EMEA, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia for APAC, Basking Ridge for US and Miami for LATAM. The areas of HR that we have responsibility for are Business Partnering, Learning and Development, Policies and Operations, Recruitment, Responsible Business (Social Impact and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion), Reward and HR Systems. The HR function is also responsible for the Secretarial function in the UK.
You will be working in a fast-paced, demanding, and global environment as we strive to make a difference for our people, clients and communities where we work.
Key responsibilities
- Support the delivery of learning and development initiatives- for example helping to implement the global mentoring schemes, supporting the rollout of a new competency framework; delivering a new approach to performance. This will include involve planning and completing tasks to support the delivery of these initiatives as well developing communications and facilitating training in the rollout.
- Working closely with the L&D Business Partners to support them when they have identified client needs, to design and deliver bespoke client learning solutions or programmes- for example team building sessions, specific workshops or leadership development workshops.
- Maintain, update and promote the content on our Learning Experience platform, ensuring content remains dynamic and relevant to emerging business needs and the platform provides a strong user experience driving increased engagement.
- Lead on the promotion of learning opportunities across the firm - this will include promoting attendance at our global programmes and core curriculum, being the key point of contact for our learning champions, getting involved in planning learning initiatives such as our annual learning festival LearnFest and delivering career roadshows across the firm
- Some training facilitation e.g. induction, Early Careers
Required experience
- Experience of supporting the delivery of global talent projects
- Experience of operating in a fast paced, commercial environment within a global organisation
- Demonstrable organisational and planning skills
- Experience of working with modern learning platforms and technologies
- Collaborative and a strong team player
- Strong technology skills - learning platforms, excel, word, PowerPoint
- Strong and persuasive writer with a flair for writing engaging and promotional communications
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong influencing skills and ability to quickly build relationships and demonstrate credibility in a professional environment
- Ability to work at speed and balance a wide range of activities at any one time and at short notice
- Ability to manage own work load and work autonomously
- Strong attention to detail and ability to work under high pressure
Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.
*where a level of experience is indicated, this is a guideline only and represents the amount of time we would usually expect a candidate to accumulate the requisite level of experience. This does not preclude applications from candidates with more or less experience.