Job Details
People Development Advisor - Retail
Role overview:
As a People Development Advisor, you’ll be the key point of contact for development throughout our organisation. As the face of our development offering, you’ll play a role in the whole learning cycle, from scoping a learning need to researching and developing a learning solution, and crucially, the delivery of innovative and high quality development initiatives. These initiatives will vary from face to face delivery, to content curation, coaching and much more.
Responsibilities:
- Scope, design and deliver performance focused Learning & Development activity to audiences across the group, in both virtual and face-to-face facilitated sessions.
- Work with line managers to improve team KPI delivery, identify trends, and work in partnership to improve areas of concern through effective individual and team development activities.
- Conduct follow-up activity to ensure impact after development interventions; and to inform further learning needs and continuously improve our People Development Offering.
- Individual and group coaching activities which focus on both personal and professional development to colleagues both on and off development programs.
- Role-model a growth mindset throughout the business by staying up to date with, and applying, current theory within Learning & Development and adult learning.
- Advocate for and build a learning culture within the group by sharing their learning and facilitating social learning.
- Curate high quality content to share across the group to encourage and enable social and self-directed learning.
- Uphold ILM Assured quality standards in the delivering of programmes that align.
Role objectives:
- Effectively scope learning needs within the group using data and evidence as a basis.
- Design learning interventions that are effective and produce results.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of learning, further evidencing ROI.
- Coaching individuals for personal and professional development.
- Encourage the group’s values through embedding into learning.
Competencies:
- 1 Deciding and Initiating Action
- 2 Adhering to Principles and Values
- 3 Presenting and Communicating Information
- 2 Applying expertise and Technology
- 2 Creating and innovating
- 2 Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- 2 Coping with Pressures and Setbacks
- 1 Achieving personal work goals and objectives
Skills and Experience:
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management.
- Competency in individual and group coaching skills and techniques.
- High quality, passionate and inclusive learning facilitation skills that create an exciting environment.
- Can demonstrate a proven track record of their their ability to deliver learning activity which is focused on performance development and aligned to business objectives.
- Experience and ability to scope and design engaging learning experiences that follow proven structure informed by Adult Learning Theory and produce results.
- A strong commercial mindset with an ability to analyse data to inform further development needs for the individual, the group and continuously push our development offering.
- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent computer literacy skills, including MS Office.
- An avid learner, with an ambition to progress their personal and professional development and role-model a learning culture.
Training requirements for the role:
- The ideal candidate will qualified to Level 3 in Learning & Development by CIPD or hold other equivalent qualifications.
- Coaching Skills
- Learning Facilitation Skills
- Stakeholder Management
- Project Management