Senior Learning & Capability Partner, Transformation

Maurice Blackburn; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid flex working model

Salary Continuance & Life Insurance

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Maurice Blackburn is seeking a Senior Learning & Capability Business Partner to lead a multi-year transformation in Personal Law L&D. You’ll own sequencing, providers, budget and outcomes in collaboration with senior legal leaders and People & Culture.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a strong backing for a multi-year strategy. You will influence design, delivery models, and adoption across seven capability streams, ensuring measurable uplift and alignment to strategic goals.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in L&D, capability or organisational development in a professional services, legal or other complex, multi-tiered environment.
• A track record designing and running a multi-stream capability framework end-to-end.
• Confidence managing external L&D/OD providers and holding them to delivery and quality commitments.
• Sound judgement across blended delivery models.
• Comfort presenting budget, adoption and outcome data to senior stakeholders.
• Experience sequencing learning around a broader change or transformation program, with an instinct for change fatigue and timing.
• Stellar stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, you build trust at all levels.
• Exposure to learning systems and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

• Driving end-to-end delivery of all seven Personal Law capability streams, design, sequencing and rollout, in partnership with leaders.
• Owning and matching learning to role, seniority and client responsibility.
• Choosing the right delivery model for the right capability.
• Managing external provider relationships, scoping, contracting input and performance.
• Owning budget tracking and reporting across training spend, conferences and internal resourcing.
• Embedding the culture-shift agenda, recognition, psychological safety, wellbeing and peer-led learning, into existing initiatives.
• Tracking adoption, completion, quality and engagement metrics to inform what we invest in next.

Skills

L&D experience

Capability development

Stakeholder engagement

Budget reporting

Change management

External provider management

Learning systems

Coaching & career development

Delivery leadership

Tools

Clio Operate

Harvey

Copilot

LinkedIn Learning

Claude/ChatGPT

Job description

Maurice Blackburn is seeking a Senior Learning & Capability Business Partner to lead a multi-year transformation in Personal Law L&D. You’ll own sequencing, providers, budget and outcomes in collaboration with senior legal leaders and People & Culture.

This is a 12-month fixed-term contract with a strong backing for a multi-year strategy. You will influence design, delivery models, and adoption across seven capability streams, ensuring measurable uplift and alignment to strategic goals.