Global Learning Manager at WaterAid

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.