Job type: Full-time, permanent
Salary: Circa £45,000 per annum depending on experience and location
Location: This is a hybrid role where you’ll be mainly based from home but there’ll be regular travel for client and internal meetings.
A Bit About Us
We’re the full-service HR consultancy that synchronises seamlessly with our clients’ businesses. An outsourced team that feels like an in-house superpower. We think that expert guidance on how to recruit, retain, develop and lead people should be available to every business, big or small. Because the right advice at the right time, from the right specialist, can be game-changing. We’re here to make those conversations happen. We help our clients to recruit, manage and retain the best people for their organisations, whether as a one-off project or an ongoing service. The work we do with them enables them to create a culture where everyone can bring the best version of themselves to work. Ultimately, people are the foundation of our clients’ success and we think they can be amazing if they’re given the right environment and support. Together, we help our clients create a great place to work and make sure they’re ready to conquer their corner of the world. We know that even in the best of workplaces, difficult employee issues arise. We help our clients face these challenges, simplify the complex, and handle everything with care and consideration for their people and culture. We eat, sleep and breathe this stuff. From people strategy to HR admin, we’re here to help – whether it’s a people team needing additional resource, or a business wanting to outsource their HR. However they need us we’ll be there: on call, or on site, whatever works best for them. We’re on a mission to show brilliant companies what happens when they hire really smart people (that’s us) to help them be the very best employers they can be. The only thing we can’t handle? Letting our clients down.
Key Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
As Learning and Development Specialist, you’ll be responsible for delivering a brilliant learning and development service to our clients, creating impactful learning experiences for a wide variety of learners. You’ll design and develop interactive face to face, virtual, digital and blended learning solutions, tailoring content to meet the needs of our clients. You’ll also take ownership of implementing and maintaining our Learning Management System (LMS), making sure our L&D offer is as high-quality as everything else we do.
Summary
Your responsibilities will be many and varied, but never boring. Here’s a brief summary of your day to day role:
* Design face to face, virtual and digital learning content
* Implement and maximise client use of our LMS
* Support the People Partnering, ER and new opportunity teams to confidently sell our L&D offer
* Seek opportunities to grow and develop professionally and keep on top of what’s happening in the L&D space
* When it comes to time recording and managing client work, sweat the small stuff, care about the detail and make sure it’s right
* We set the bar high for everything we do – make sure your work meets this expectation
* Keep clients happy, communicate well with them, do a great job and don’t let them down
* Play your part in helping us meet our team/company targets and goals
* Understand our values, what they mean in practice and be guided by them in your behaviour and decision making when at work
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
About You
You are a creative and technically skilled learning and development specialist with a strong background in designing engaging digital learning content and interactive workshops. You’re a highly organised self-starter with the ability to juggle multiple projects whilst building strong client relationships.
You’re a digital learning expert, using your creativity and technical skills to bring our existing workshops to life in a digital format. You have experience designing innovative and engaging learning content, with a history of meeting client needs. You know how to design and, ideally, deliver virtual and in-person workshops that maximise learning impact and receive excellent feedback.
You’re confident in implementing and managing learning management systems, ideally Absorb LMS. Exceptionally well-organised, you can coordinate learning and development activities across multiple stakeholders with ease. You naturally put yourself in the shoes of others, making sure that workshops and digital content are designed to really resonate with participants.
An expert in how people learn, you create experiences that are engaging, effective, and impactful. You’re independent, able to manage multiple projects and offer recommendations within your role. Most importantly, you treat every day like a school day. You see every piece of feedback as an opportunity to learn and approach challenges with curiosity.
Benefits
The Perks
We’re probably biased, but we think this role is exciting, interesting, fun, challenging, full of growth opportunities… we could go on. All that aside, we also offer:
* Competitive salary, Circa £45,000 per annum FTE.
* 25 days when you start employment with us, 27 days after 1 year service, 29 days after 2 years’ service + bank holidays.
* Career qualifications supported and paid for where relevant with progression and development opportunities.
* Monthly homeworking allowance and all equipment provided.
* Many flexible working patterns to make sure you have a good balance between your work and home life.
* A wide range of support in your role internally and externally and a hugely supportive and friendly team.
* 4% employer pension contributions, with a minimum of 4% employee contributions.
* Shopping discounts platform, flu vaccinations and technology and cycle to work salary sacrifice schemes.
* Paid for social events and virtual get-togethers.
* Employee assistance programme.
* Life assurance at 4 times basic salary.
* Unlimited remote GP appointments available 24/7.
* A range of other health and wellbeing benefits.
How to Apply
There are a few stages in our application process which help you get to know us as much as it helps us get to know you. This includes a virtual interview, psychometric testing and a concluding in-person meeting with an assessment of your training design skills.
If this sounds good, and you think Fitzgerald could be the place for you, APPLY NOW. We can’t wait to hear from you!
We believe our team should reflect all parts of society at every level of the organisation. That’s why one of our top priorities is crafting a clear strategy and action plan to achieve our diversity and inclusion goals.
We’re all about finding the best person for the job - no exceptions. Every candidate and employee gets a fair shot, no matter their age, disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.
From shortlisting to interviews to final selection, we’re committed to applying equal opportunities every step of the way.
Above all, we’re creating a workplace where everyone feels included, respected, and able to bring their whole self to work. Because dignity and respect aren’t just nice-to-haves - they’re non-negotiable.
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