We are looking for a Learning Specialist (Leadership & Coaching) to join our Bauer Academy Team on a Full-Time Permanent Basis.
This is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced trainer and facilitator to design and deliver work-based learning solutions for our people across Bauer Media Group as well as a range of high-profile external clients.
The Team provides training in key areas expected of one of Europe's largest media companies. These include digital marketing, advertising, sales, leadership and management, innovation, and wellbeing.
The Learning Specialist should be a confident generalist, capable of facilitating a wide range of training solutions, with a core focus on Leadership and Coaching. Your role will help learners acquire, retain, and apply new knowledge and skills. Additionally, you must be able to work confidently with a variety of client groups.
Working closely with our Senior Learning Specialist and Head of Learning Solutions, you will work with clients to identify training needs and co-create innovative solutions whilst also delivering established programmes remotely and face-to-face.
Through effective programme management and design expertise, this role ensures Bauer Academy’s training provision is world-class. This role collaborates to ensure all programmes and projects deliver impactful work-based learning provision, improving individual performance and creating vibrant learning cultures.
This role also supports the development of new business opportunities, with targeted client management and the commercialisation of training content.
This role will be based in either our Peterborough or London offices. Whilst flexibility is possible (with some home working), this role requires a presence in Bauer offices and travel for face-to-face delivery and client meetings.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Providing high quality curriculum design for internal and external learning and development programmes, with an emphasis on work-based learning cultures.
2. Delivering effective, interactive training utilising a range of tools and technology both online and face-to-face.
3. Supporting co-creation services including bespoke design for internal stakeholders and external clients with creative training approaches, always aligned to Bauer Academy values.
4. Managing a variety of training projects, including ad hoc talent development programmes, events, and summits.
5. When required, providing excellent client management, including relationship building to support growth of new business
6. Reviewing training programmes for continuous improvement and produce post-programme reports.
7. Contributing to Train the Trainer activities and Best Practice Sessions, aligned to specific individual / team needs, and emerging educational trends.
8. Supporting the commercialisation of Bauer Academy training content, with entrepreneurial ideas, business plans and marketing campaigns
9. Keep up to date with educational trends to ensure compliance and best practice is embedded within all design work.
10. Keep up to date with evolving and emerging job roles across the creative sector internationally, with detailed updates on future training needs and trends.
11. Growing and maintain high level knowledge and expertise across multiple subject areas, with an emphasis on digital marketing, advertising, leadership and management, multimedia storytelling.
The Ideal Candidate
12. Degree-level qualification, ideally within media or education disciplines.
13. Coaching qualification essential.
14. L5 Teaching Qualification and / or CIPD is desirable, but not essential
15. Demonstrable passion for work-based learning, with skills evidencing innovative approaches utilising technology for both face to face and online delivery
16. Strong expertise in educational practice, with a passion for impactful curriculum design and innovative teaching methods
17. Strong sense of initiative, with excellent project management skills and the ability to promote process improvement
18. Experience within the creative sector is preferable, ideally with senior industry experience in a multimedia company
19. Highly collaborative with exceptional inter-personal skills and the ability to influence others
20. Excellent project management skills, with outstanding attention to detail and a relentless commitment to best practice
21. Evidence of commercial acumen and entrepreneurship is essential
Sounds incredible right? - if you have the desired skills and experience to work for an incredible team, then we would love to hear from you!
Closing Date For Applications: Thursday 22nd August
Package Description
Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.
22. 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
23. Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
24. Opportunity to buy additional holiday
25. Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
26. Company pension
27. Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
28. Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
29. Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
30. Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives
31. Discounted high street vouchers