Role Purpose
To design and implement an innovative and impactful learning strategy and curriculum to build organisational and individual capabilities across global and country teams, ensuring all staff are equipped with the skills and knowledge to deliver exceptional results. This role drives best practices in learning and leadership development by fostering a culture of continuous learning and inclusivity. It contributes significantly to the organisation's mission by empowering staff to excel in their roles, promoting equity, and enhancing overall effectiveness.
Principal Accountabilities
- Strategy & Curriculum: Develop and maintain our learning and development strategy, frameworks, and curricula (including leadership, management mandatory training, personal effectiveness, and other organisational capability areas) that are customisable and scalable and drive organisational capability.
- Leadership Uplift: Design, deliver, and implement the Global Leadership and Management Curriculum, uplifting SCI Leadership and Management behaviours.
- Needs Assessment & Execution: Collaborate with People Partners, Head of Talent, and other stakeholders to assess learning needs, create comprehensive learning plans, design interventions, and ensure the execution of high-quality development programs.
- Inclusion & Support: Foster an inclusive and supportive learning environment by integrating diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into all training materials and methods.
- Evaluation: Evaluate the effectiveness of learning interventions through regular feedback, monitoring, and reporting, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organisational goals.
- Cultural Competence: Champion the development of cultural competence within the organisation by promoting awareness, understanding, and respect for diverse cultural perspectives in all learning initiatives.
- Partnerships: Build partnerships to fund and leverage learning resources that are relevant for Save the Children.
- Budget Management: Manage the Learning and Development budget and influence global funding for L&D.
- Capability Building: Coach and build the capability of the Learning and Leadership Team and the broader learning and development community.
Experience and Skills
Essential
- Extensive Experience in Learning and Development: Proven track record in leading the full life cycle of learning and development at scale.
- Extensive Experience: In best practice and thought leadership across learning and development, including leadership and management development, learning theories, and future-focused learning design.
- Significant Experience: In fostering inclusive learning environments and championing diversity, equity, and inclusion within an organization.
- Significant Stakeholder Experience: In working with senior leaders and other key stakeholders to align and prioritise learning initiatives with organisational goals.
- Instructional Design: Significant experience in instructional design—designing, developing, and delivering blended learning solutions.
- Innovative Learning Design: Considerable experience in innovative learning design and implementation tools and technologies.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to set ambitious and challenging goals for oneself and for the team, being future-oriented and thinking on a global scale. Proven ability to create implementable strategies from complex requirements.
- Prioritisation: Ability to balance competing and conflicting priorities, and make decisions aligned to the overall strategy.
- Creativity and Innovation: Capacity to develop and encourage new and innovative solutions, while willing to take disciplined risks.
- Leadership: Demonstrates strong leadership abilities, relatable and easy to talk to, and an approachable team leader who can motivate and support others.
Desirable
- Coaching and Mentoring: Strong skills in coaching and mentoring leaders at various levels.
Education and Qualifications
- BA/BSc/HND degree qualification.
- Recognised HR Qualification with emphasis on learning is desirable but not essential.
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