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.  

Job Description:

About the Role:

As their strong learning thinking partner and designer, you will analyze global learning needs and design excellent initiatives to equip them with the skills needed to achieve their global strategy.

In this role, you will design and develop their global management development program and approach as well as support the design and development of new global learning initiatives.    You’ll also:

• Manage their 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 their 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 their e-learning provision, working with the Learning Hub manager and WAUK Learning Manager to ensure content is aligned to their 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 programs and approaches aligned to their organizational 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 analyzing 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.

No Fees: Water Aid does not charge any application fees during the recruitment process.

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