Learning and Development Manager

Role Title: Learning and Development Manager

Salary: £48166 to £49,558

Location: London-Hybrid

Tenure: Permanent - Full time

ActionAid UK is a member of the ActionAid Federation, an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. As part of the ActionAid Federation, we work with women and girls, our partners, and dedicated staff in 43 countries to end violence and fight poverty so that all women, everywhere, can create the future they want

Are you a keen advocate of women and girls’ rights in emergencies? 

Can you create engaging and innovative learning strategies and programmes?

Then we'd love to hear from you!

We’re looking for an innovative and knowledgeable Learning & Development Manager to join our People & Culture team

This is an exciting and autonomous role in a small but ambitious team, where you will work alongside the Director of People Transformation & Culture,  Head of People & Culture and the HR Team. You’ll have the opportunity to shape learning and development across the organisation, working with incredible colleagues to support them on their learning journeys, enabling our colleagues to deliver to the best of their ability.

The ideal candidate will possess expertise in fostering a culture of learning, wellbeing, inclusion, and service excellence, they will have strong project management skills and will be able to identify and address potential risks and issues in project execution, proposing solutions as needed as well as a keen interest in enhancing learning and development initiatives, while imbedding our Anti-racist and Feminist Principles.
 

You will be able to demonstrate how you have improved or implemented ways or working strategies within learning as well as how you document processes and templates that are easily accessible. You will also be able to demonstrate how you have designed and delivered comprehensive learning and skills development experiences and how you have ensured alignment of learning initiatives with organisational goals and individual career paths. 

You'll be an agile thinker, using a flexible approach to inspire and empower individuals and teams to proactively develop their knowledge, skills, and behaviours in a fast-paced environment-Communicating confidently, leveraging influencing skills utilising a genuine passion for people to build strong relationships with diverse stakeholders. It is essential that you can work at pace in a complex INGO matrix business with different priorities and can demonstrate experience of using Project Management software. 

What you'll be doing:

• Utilising LMS systems to ensure learning is accessible
• Keeping up to date with L&D trends and best practices
• Assessing/evaluating current learning materials
• Driving forward a culture of learning and respectful feedback, ensuring personal and professional development is embedded across the organisation

What you'll bring:

• Proven experience of LMS management
• Create engaging learning activities and compelling course content for both in person and online use
• Create bespoke online content and curated learning collections
• Proven strong stakeholder management
• Experience designing and delivering L&D programmes, along with evaluation
• Budget and project management experience
• Learning evaluation methodology and how to implement this.
• CIPD L5 Qualification or Equivalent 

This role provides essential support to the business whilst ensuring delivery of our L&D strategy. Working with the wider People, Transformation & Culture department to ensure our wonderful people have access to ‘best in class’ professional and personal development at every stage of their career with ActionAid UK.

Please Review our Feminist Principles & Behaviours 

Due to the nature of this role, the successful candidate will be asked to participate in criminal records checks at the point of offer.

Additional Information:

Diversity, Equality, Inclusion and Belonging:

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging are key to our organisational culture. We are on a journey to become not only an anti-racist organisation but one that proudly

celebrates the diversity of all applicants and employees. We look forward to you bringing your full self to work, proudly sharing your unique perspective and helping us to shape our combined future. We especially welcome applications from those from underrepresented/marginalised communities.

AAUK is a disability Confident Committed organisation and as such any candidate that declares a disability will be shortlisted for interview if they meet the essential criteria for the role.

Referencing and Safeguarding:

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which can include safeguarding, criminal records and terrorism

finance checks. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

ActionAid UK is committed to preventing any form of sexual harassment, exploitation, and abuse (including child abuse and adult at-risk abuse) and responding robustly when these harms take place. We expect all ActionAid UK Staff and ActionAid UK Representatives to share this commitment. We will not tolerate our Staff or other representatives carrying out any form of sexual harassment, exploitation or abuse towards anyone we come into contact with through our work.

ActionAid UK also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.  In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms their understanding of these recruitment procedures.

Working practices:

ActionAid is committed to supporting flexible working. If you would like to discuss flexible working options, including the possibility of a job share for this role, there will be space to do so during the interview process.

ActionAid UK has a hybrid working policy for many of our roles. The requirement will vary from team to team and the responsibilities of individual roles. As a minimum, all colleagues are expected to attend the office 12 days per year, plus additional time for induction, training, and “Company Connection days.” Some roles may require in- office attendance on all days and if so, these will clearly be marked as in-office roles.

Please note that ActionAid UK does not offer fully remote working options. We encourage you to discuss hybrid working expectations at interview.

Please not you will need to the the Right to Work in the UK

Recruitment Processes:

Please note that ActionAid UK may review, shortlist and interview candidates prior to the closing date so we encourage all candidates to apply as soon as possible.

If we receive a very high response, we may close the vacancy early and will not accept further submissions.