Learning Leader - London, United Kingdom - Arup

Arup

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Job Title:
Learning Leader

Associate or Associate Director (Grade 8)

Location:
London

Contract:
Full time permanent.

Reporting to - Learning Faculty Lead of the Arup University

About Arup
Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries.

Founded to be both humane and excellent, we collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology, and rigour to shape a better world.

About Arup University

Arup University is the firm's centre of excellence and is responsible for our communities of experts and enthusiasts that enables members to develop our skills and capability to better meet the needs of our clients and drive continuous innovation across the firm.

We are dedicated to expanding our knowledge, strengthening our collective capabilities, and accelerating our progress towards a sustainable future.

Find out more about Arup University here.

Introduction to the role and the Arup Global Skills Network
Arup is highly collaborative and creative, with expertise and excellence shared worldwide. Arup University hosts 58 dedicated Global Skill Networks. These networks are open to all members (our employees) globally within Arup.

The leaders of these networks bring together communities of talented and enthusiastic members to share knowledge, tools, and techniques and to drive forward the transformation of their domains.

At Arup, skills are critical to building and enhancing our current and future capability and our Skill Leaders are critical in leading and enabling world class networks on behalf of the firm.

These unique communities share knowledge and technical expertise, push boundaries, experiment, and inspire each other in their work.

This ensures that our clients have access to the most up to date and diverse experience and capabilities across the firm.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced learning leader to drive and develop the learning agenda within these skills-based communities to upskill and reskill approximately 18000 experts to excel in their professional practice and support our strategy and plans.

They will be responsible for evaluating and developing transformational learning that is innovative and impactful to fully support our members and enable them to deliver technical excellence in everything they do.

Each Skills Network is responsible for developing capability and building deep expertise in their membership aligned to a Skills Transformation Plan.

The ultimate purpose is any learning solution contributes pro-actively to our people rigorously exercising their skill at the best level possible on our project work for our clients.

You will be in the learning faculty leadership team; but partnering full time with the Skills Faculty in your day to day work.

You will make an impact in this role by:

Delivering a Skills Networks learning strategy in partnership with your key client, the Skills Faculty, that underpins Arup purpose, delivering excellence and transformational outcomes for Arup's members.
Taking responsibility for the full cycle learning programme management including definition of capabilities, diagnosis, design, delivery of learning projects and evaluation; relying on the learning professionals within Arup University to succeed in your work.
Leading 58 Global Skills Leaders to identify, create and implement formal learning solutions and informal activities for their community of experts in line with their Skills Transformation Plans.
Work with professional institutions to establish quality learning provisions to enable external recognition of professional excellence for our members: including routes to establish chartership or required technical qualifications or certifications.

Is this role right for you?

If so, you will have:

Curious learning mindset, and will thrive in a dynamic fast paced working environment, dealing with very senior stakeholders in multiple locations around the world
Demonstrated ability to deliver success when working across all aspects of the learning cycle (e.g. needs analysis, design & development, delivery, assessment & evaluation)
Evidence of delivering innovation in learning solutions that create real value in projects delivered to clients; comfortable across broad range of solution typologoies.
Project management experience and skills, including planning what, stakeholder management, task management and communications.
Ability to develop and present coherent ideas with confidence, inspiration and gravitas, creating engagement.
A strong data driven approach to learning.
Strong technical aptitude with willingness to learn and work with emerging technologies.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.

The role is based in our London office, with a requirement to attend our offices a minimum of 3 days per week.

Rewards and Benefits
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