Learning and Development Manager

My client a top 5 Accountancy firm based in London seek a L&D manager to join their thriving team. the ideal candidate must be able to work proactively and manage your own tasks and collaborate with others within your team and senior managers and partners within the firm.

Core duties will include the following:

• Creation of impactful, innovative solutions which meet learner needs and deliver clear business outcomes

• Review content written by design secondees and instructional designers to maintain quality control of content, ensure learning objectives have been met, challenge learning efficacy and innovation and drive consistency, whilst always meeting business needs

• Developing and maintaining relevant business relationships that are integral to programmatic design such as content SMEs

• Supporting the delivery of programmes with onsite project management and/or facilitation support as appropriate

• Responsible for the design, curation or creating of relevant content under the direction of the Development and Monitoring Lead with a particular focus on how technical and non-technical elements are blended through our programmes

• Support the Monitoring, Reporting & Compliance team in ensuring appropriate evaluation metrics are put in place and analyse evaluation reporting at a programme level to consider the impact of this on future design iteration

• Coach and supervise more junior development team members

• Support the Faculty team with the briefing and training of facilitators and hosts to equip them to be able to deliver learning content

• Support facilitation of programmes as needed alongside the Stream

• Collaborate effectively with the Business Partner and Learning Implementation Lead, as well as wider teams to understand training needs for specific training, and translate those needs into learning objectives and content, as well as develop content that can be successfully and commercially implemented

• Collaborate with the Innovation and Technology Hub team to enable effective learning design that appropriately leverages innovation and technology as well as the latest design thinking

• Bring the latest thinking and innovation to the business to support the development of effective, high-quality learning solutions

• Advocate change where needed, leading by example and seeking support as appropriate

Ideal Candidates must have the following:

• Senior Manager (or equivalent) with a background in programme development, both non-technical and audit-technical course content, and preferably with experience of regulatory reporting requirements

• Must have come from a professional services fiem and understand Audit (Essential)

• Experience of authoring and reviewing programme content

• Understanding of the latest design thinking, innovation, tools and technology to support programme development, data analytics / evidence-based analysis

• Strong relationship skills with an ability to work with varied stakeholders, influence agendas and drive forward activities

• Strong teamworking and collaboration skills alongside an ability to coach, develop and inspire people to reach their potential

• Ability to take training needs and translate these into learning objectives and key learning outcomes and then coordinate an appropriate response to these

• Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal

• Strong data-analytics and problem-solving skills

• Understanding of business strategy and goals and a focus on delivering effectively against these

• Focus on excellence, quality and outputs