Learning Partner

Closing Date: 17 November 2024

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Save the Children UK has an exciting opportunity for a customer centric and forward-thinking individual with extensive facilitation experience to join us as our Learning Partner where you will work with teams across the organisation to design and execute human-centric learning solutions. 

Please note: This role requires up to 4-6 days a month working in our Farringdon (London) offices. This is a 9-month Fixed Term Contract. 

About Us 

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach. 

About the role 

As Learning Partner, you will play a key role in shaping a dynamic Learning offer that is closely aligned with our OoF transformation. You will be a highly visible and essential part of both the People Team and the Organisation of the Future team, making it crucial to champion the People Team across the organisation and exemplify the Programme's core design principles—Agile, Adult, Experience, and Iterative. 

In this role, you will:   

• Advise and coach teams to design and implement human-centered learning solutions that align with our Organisation of the Future transformation programme  
• Collaborate with the wellbeing team—an important aspect of this role is designing and delivering wellbeing skills programmes that support the integration of wellbeing into the Organisation of the Future programme. You'll also ensure that wellbeing capabilities are embedded into the employee lifecycle and processes in a sustainable manner 
• Facilitate team, management and wellbeing learning programmes 
• Take ownership of and enhance various digital learning technologies, including the development of e-learning solutions, as well as the ongoing improvement and management of our existing Learning Management System (LMS) 
• Redesign work in partnership with the People Product Owner and Service Designers to ensure fit for purpose and provide a positive customer experience  
• Collaborate with the People Team Coordinator to manage communication channels effectively, ensuring that learning opportunities and resources are well-publicised and accessible to all colleagues. 

About you 

To be successful, it is important that you have:  

• Extensive and proven expertise in customer-focused Learning & Development, with strong experience in programme and product ownership, inclusive learning design, and facilitation—both online and in-person 
• Strong familiarity with digital learning platforms and LMS's, ideally LinkedIn Learning, and experience in promoting and curating content from such platforms and other sources
• Experience in design and facilitation of customer-centric learning interventions in at least 2 of the following areas: leadership & management development, wellbeing, agile mindset development, data skills development, organisation wide coaching and mentoring capability development, and/or team and group development
• Self and interpersonal awareness, with strong relationship building skills, and demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with diverse colleagues with sensitivity, confidentiality, and awareness of professional boundaries 
• An agile mindset and approach, with the ability to constantly adapt plans and review approaches, the willingness to constantly learn, including from positive and constructive feedback, and to work in ambiguity and emergence
• Commitment to Save the Children's vision, mission, and values. 

What we offer you: 

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. 

• We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing both in and outside of work. 
• We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.

Please note: To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

The majority of our roles can be performed remotely in the UK, but there are likely to be times when you will be required to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter).  This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team and is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building. 

Please note: travel costs to your contracted office will be at your own expense. 

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: 

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think. 

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.