Learning Design Lead

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Role Summary

People are the beating heart of Newton, and our success and outstanding client impact is reliant upon the extraordinary talent that call Newton home. It is our mission to help great people experience extraordinary careers whilst enabling impactful, sustainable positive change in the delivery of service within some of the largest employers in the UK and beyond. This role is critical in helping us achieve this.

Reporting to the Head of Talent and Organisational Development, you’ll be a key part of our Talent & Organisational Development team.

As Learning Design Lead, you will be designing the talent development strategy that underpins our performance and future growth trajectory, in line with our purpose and values.

The specific accountabilities of this role are:

Talent Progression Pathways

• Lead the design and development of a talent progression pathway and supporting processes to support rapid career growth based on exceptional performance, through performance evaluation and measurement. This would include performance assessment processes and career progression routes.
• Bring your experience of international growth and acquisitions to our growing business, to ensure career pathways are mapped for the future of what our business will look like.
• Accountable for clear expectations and role requirements for roles across Newton, including in the Consulting team and in the Head Office functions.
• Actively engaging with external networks to bring best practice and innovative thinking into the talent development space.

Learning

• Lead the design and development of a comprehensive learning strategy to support career development, leadership development and technical development of colleagues at all levels across the business.
• Ensure a comprehensive learning strategy exists to support colleagues joining us through acquisition.
• Create learning personas to guide the design and delivery of tailored learning experiences
• Develop learning pathways that align with individual career goals and the business talent management strategy.
• Oversee and contribute to the design and development of engaging, effective learning programs using a range of different delivery methods (eLearning, F2F workshops, virtual workshops, blended learning solutions), equipping those with a diverse range of learning styles to excel in their role
• Adopt a data driven approach to assess ROI of learning programs.
• Ensure all learning content is aligned with adult learning principles, instructional design best practice and up to date learning technologies.
• Manage the full lifecycle of learning projects, from initial needs analysis and concept development to design, feedback and evaluation.
• Collaborate with business leads, SMEs and HRBPs to fully understand learning needs and desired outcomes.
• Partner with external consultants to develop programs where additional learning expertise and experience is desired
• Collaborate with the learning delivery team to assess and refine learning content to deliver continuous improvement, ensuring two-way knowledge transfer.
• Monitor project budgets, timelines and resources to ensure efficient program delivery.
• Lead, coach and support the Learning Design Manager.

How Do We Develop And Reward You?

Newton’s culture is prefaced on maximising the potential of our people, including in enabling central functions. The prospects for personal development in this role are no exception. This role offers you the opportunity to leave a lasting impact on Newton’s phenomenal growth story, with a driving seat in the acceleration of our talent development framework. You will have the opportunity to touch the career journeys of our gifted community and take pride in their achievements and impact across our client portfolio.

You will have the support, encouragement and resources to design groundbreaking, innovative learning programmes which are the envy of the sector. Newton’s impressive client network offers you the opportunity to engage with some of the most challenging issues affecting society and the economy, and network with Senior Advisors and thought leaders within our impressive Consulting body.

You’ll have a dedicated Development Manager to support your career progression and receive regular appraisals and annual pay reviews. We offer a highly competitive salary (£75,000 - £85,000), company performance bonus, equity participation scheme and our generous benefits package also includes Life Assurance, Income Protection, pension contributions and 29 days’ holiday.

Required Profile

You’ll be a high calibre individual, with exceptional levels of personal drive and eagerness for personal development. You will have demonstrable experience of designing career pathways and learning interventions in a professional services environment, and have a strong understanding of competency frameworks and career pathways within a consulting firm.

You will have demonstrable experience of delivering change at pace, working with stakeholders to identify learning needs, and to lead the design of interventions for both functional skills and leadership development, using in house and external providers.

You will be bubbling over with passion and excitement about the opportunity this role has to unleash potential in our gifted community, and be attuned to how best to achieve this inclusively within our diverse population. You will be open to creativity, innovation and big picture thinking, balancing this against analytical insight. You will be open to measured risk, and encourage empowerment and point accountability within your team. You will be solution-oriented, as comfortable rolling up your sleeves to solve challenges with your team as you are engaging with our Operating Board.

You will embrace accountability and ownership and demonstrate a natural ability to communicate for influence, balancing intellect with humility and good humour. You will have the courage and integrity to challenge the status quo and respectfully influence opinion. You will be inclusive and empathetic, able to bring others with you on a journey of change for collective impact.

You will have a passion for innovation in learning design, exploring creative ways to develop others, with experience designing high quality programmes with evidenced impact.

At Newton, we know we win together. You will be a committed team player, influencing change through empathy and insight. You will be a game changer, having the vision to make all you touch better.

The skills or experience we would expect you to evidence include:

• Significant experience in learning or talent design, showing evidence of successful delivery of a broad range of program development at all levels across the business
• Evidence of successful delivery of talent pathways, including at senior leadership level
• Evidence of successful delivery of learning interventions, including measurement of impact
• Proven ability to measure and deliver ROI from learning program solutions
• Demonstrated experience in engaging with business stakeholders, including senior leadership and translating business needs into effective learning solutions
• Proficient in range of learning technologies, eLearning authoring tools, blended learning program design
• Strong business acumen and project management skills.
• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

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