Global Learning Manager

Nigeria, Abuja/ Lagos: Grade F – 18,397,645 - 23,445,232 (NGN)
Tanzania, Dar Es Salaam: Grade F - 92,039,950 -116,866,370 (TZS)
South Africa, Pretoria: Grade F - 827,550 - 1,034,437 (ZAR)
Nepal, Kathmandu: Grade F1 - 2,683,878 3,882,926 (NPR)
Kenya, competitive package

About WaterAid:
Want to use your strong learning and development skills to play a vital role in making clean water, decent toilets and good hygiene normal for everyone everywhere?

We need passionate, creative and dedicated people. In return, you will be encouraged and empowered to be yourself at your very best. Together, we will make a bigger difference.

Join WaterAid as Global Learning Manager to change normal for millions of people so they can unlock their potential, break free from poverty and change their lives for good.

About the Team:
This role reports to the Leadership Development & Wellbeing Lead working as part of the Leadership & Employee Experience Team in the Global People Team. This team is responsible for facilitating high levels of performance across WaterAid, through the development of integrated leadership, learning, engagement and internal communications strategies.

About the Role:
As our strong learning thinking partner and designer you will analyse global learning needs and design excellent initiatives to equip us with the skills needed to achieve our global strategy.

In this role, you will design and develop our global management development programme and approach as well as support the design and development of new global learning initiatives.

You’ll also:

Manage our global induction approach, creating and updating guidance and resources to support a consistent induction experience for all WaterAiders at a local level.
- Manage the design, guidance and resources of our senior leadership induction to ensure a consistency of experience and expectation across the global whole.
Support the development and design of WaterAid’s performance management approach and principles ensuring guidance and learning resources are available and shared with the global people network.
Provide oversight of our e-learning provision, working with the Learning Hub manager and WAUK Learning Manager to ensure content is aligned to our strategic priorities and meeting the needs of the global whole.
Provide tailored leadership, management and learning development approaches and senior team development initiatives to address identified priorities as agreed with the relevant stakeholder/business partner.
Pro-actively maintain expert knowledge about latest trends in learning and management development and use this to support the creation of impactful programmes and approaches aligned to organisational priorities.

About You:

Be a credible advisor able to build trusting relationships and be a thinking partner
Be an excellent designer with an ability to design creative and engaging learning solutions that deliver on the defined need and desired outcomes.
Be skilled at identifying and analysing needs, developing relevant approaches and evaluating effectiveness.
Have expert knowledge and experience of learning and management development approaches and practice.
Have experience of partnering with third parties to design and deliver learning interventions.
Have experience of working globally, with an appreciation of cultural differences and of the difference this makes to learning styles and ways of working
Have strong coaching and mentoring skills with an approach that builds capacity rather than dependency.
Have project management experience, managing learning projects from end to end.
Be a team player, able to work in a collaborative way, with flexibility and resourcefulness.

Although not essential, we also prefer you to have:

Experience of learning management systems
The ability to facilitate and/or coach in other languages, particularly French, Spanish or Portuguese would be an advantage.
HR or Learning and development qualifications, Coaching & Mentoring certification, psychometric assessments etc.

Closing date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 13th October. Availability for initial interview is required week commencing 4th November 2024.

How to Apply: To see the full job pack, please click ‘Apply’. Please apply by submitting your CV and a cover letter into one document in either Word Document or PDF format.

Pre-employment screening: To apply for this post, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in the respective country. All pre-employment checks will be carried out according to the applicable laws in the respective countries.

Our Commitment

Our People Promise:
We will work with passion and focus to ensure safe and sustainable water, toilets and hygiene are available to everyone, everywhere. WaterAid is a place of purpose – where people have a real commitment and shared responsibility for the impact we have. We are a global community with diverse backgrounds and perspectives, motivated by inspiring, stimulating work. We are determined to put the wellbeing of our people first, to be a place where people feel safe and able to contribute their voice and truly live our values.

Equal opportunities:
We are an equal opportunity, disability-confident employer and are dedicated to achieving the highest standards of diversity, equity and inclusion. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, beliefs, customs, traditions and ways of life. This includes, but is not limited to, race, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, national or social origin, health status, and economic or social situation.

Safeguarding:
We are also committed to protecting everyone we come into contact with. We have a zero-tolerance approach to abuse of power, privilege or trust across our global work, and any form of inappropriate behaviour, discrimination, abuse, bullying, harassment, or exploitation. Safeguarding the people and communities we work with, our staff, volunteers and anyone working on our behalf is our top priority, and we take our responsibilities extremely seriously.