Learning & Development Advisor – 0.8 FTE – Remote

Salary: £27,388 plus benefits

We are delighted to be recruiting for a new Learning & Development (L&D) Advisor to join our People & Culture team. Reporting to our L&D Lead, you will play a key role in delivering the L&D strategy across Mary’s Meals. With a strong focus on Management and Leadership Development, you will have responsibility for scoping, designing and delivering a range of new and engaging learning interventions, from e-learning to virtual workshops, to support our strategic aims.

As a key member of our global L&D team, you will co-ordinate L&D activities and development programmes and advise and support staff on all aspects of L&D from personal development to use of the LMS. You will play a key role in the ongoing development of our learning culture across the global MM family, as we strive to reach the next childing waiting for Mary’s Meals.

Key duties:

• Support the L&D Lead in the planning, development and delivery of a high-quality leadership programme for aspiring leaders across the charity.
• Scope, design and delivery a Management Development Programme to build the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to empower and inspire teams.
• Coordinate a programme of activities to encourage and support the development of senior leaders, such as leadership talks, action learning sets and curation of a digital leadership learning library.
• Evaluate learning interventions to ensure their impact is measured and cost effective, making recommendations for improvement and supporting the continuous improvement of the L&D offering.
• Guide and advise line managers to help them identify learning and development needs within their teams and collaborate to design and deliver learning interventions that support our strategic aims.
• Facilitate learning events that are inspiring, engaging and aligned to Mary’s Meals strategic aims.
• Support the delivery of 360° feedback and psychometric tools where relevant.
• Support with the administration of training programmes and events as needed and carry out administration of the LMS and other administrative tasks.

We are looking for:

• Strong experience of working within a varied L&D role, with experience in all stages of the learning cycle and current knowledge of adult learning theories.
• Experience of co-ordinating, designing, delivering and evaluating high-quality and engaging online and blended training programmes, ideally with a Management or Leadership focus.
• Excellent facilitation skills, with experience of delivering workshops in a virtual environment.
• Willingness and ability to learn new digital tools and systems.
• A creative, positive and organised approach with excellent communication and relationship building skills.

We have a remote-first approach to work and are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work-life balance. We also have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive a Mary’s Meals. We believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, Mary’s Meals is fully committed to a culture of safeguarding.

Mary’s Meals is committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary’s Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.

If you would love to use your skills, talents and experience to be part of positive change in the world, we would love to hear from you. Please apply and tell us why you want to work at Mary’s Meals and why this role is a great fit for you.

Benefits:

• 8% non-contributory pension contribution – after 3 months (for international candidates the 8% pension contribution will be paid as a part of salary)
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week)
• Flexible working
• Lifeworks Employee Assistance Programme, including perks and cash back opportunities
• Life assurance