0.5 Learning And Development Administrator

East Lancashire Learning Group; Chatburn; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 15,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Sick pay scheme

Health and wellbeing benefits

Staff recognition scheme

Family friendly policies

Free on-site parking

Job summary

East Lancashire Learning Group is seeking a maternity-cover Learning and Development Administrator. Based at Lancashire Adult Learning & Accrington and Rossendale campus, with duties across sites, you will support the L&D Director in delivering CPDL activities and staff development.

The role requires a proactive administrator with excellent communication, IT skills, and a passion for developing staff knowledge and skills, including event planning and reporting.

Qualifications

• Experience in a busy administrative role with strong IT skills.
• Ability to manage workload and priorities with attention to detail.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and event coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide efficient admin support to CPDL activities and staff requests.
• Organise CPDL days/weeks/events and maintain records for reports.
• Build relationships with SLT, managers, staff and external providers.

Skills

Administration

Event planning

MS Office

Communication

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

0.5 Learning & Development Administrator

Salary: : Up to £13,802.13 per annum depending on experience (FTE £27,604.26)
Hours: 18.5 per week
Working Weeks: Full Year
Contract Type: Temporary
Site: : Accrington & Rossendale College and Lancashire Adult Learning
Closing Date: Midnight, 04 November 2026
Interview Date: 11 November 2026
‘Together, Let’s Be Extraordinary’

Our Organisation

This role is advertised by ELLG Professional Services. Part of East Lancashire Learning Group, ELLG Professional Services provides expert business support services to the wider Group.

Part of East Lancashire Learning Group, Accrington and Rossendale College has a proud history of delivering high quality vocational courses and technical training, apprenticeships and higher education provision to the communities that we serve. We excel in providing people with a platform to progress into fantastic employment opportunities with rewarding careers prospects.

Part of East Lancashire Learning Group, Lancashire Adult Learning (LAL) provide learning opportunities for all adults across the region. LAL currently offers an extensive range of subjects to learners, with over 2000 courses delivered through more than 300 venues across Lancashire. We engage over 10,000 learners, which makes us one of the UK’s largest Adult Community Learning Providers

The Exciting Role

An exciting opportunity has become available for maternity cover for the Learning and Development Administrator. You can be based at Lancashire Adult Learning & Accrington and Rossendale campus, when needed at Nelson and Colne College. You will be a part of the Learning and Development Team reporting to the Director of Teaching, Learning and Development. This is a fantastic opportunity to support the college to implement their people strategy, supporting all staff to further develop staff knowledge and skills, developing talent and succession planning, through supporting to organise CPDL opportunities for leaders, curriculum and support staff.

What You Will Be Doing:

You will assist the Teaching Learning and Development Director providing an efficient administration support service being the central contact for staff requesting CPDL activities. You will support the Learning and Development Director in organising college CPDL days, weeks and events. You will book CPDL activities keeping records of activities and contribute to reports and reviews. You will be using specific software to do this. Within this role it is key that you develop good relationships with SLT, Support & Curriculum Managers, staff, other key support areas across the College and external providers.

What We Are Looking For:

We are looking for a highly motivated person to join the Learning and Development Team, who is passionate about staff development and seeing people develop in their roles.

We need someone that has experience of working in a busy administrative role and can manage and priories their workload. Excellent communication skills verbal and written are key and attention to detail with first time accuracy is paramount. Use of IT with the use of Microsoft applications to a high standard. Within this role we need someone who like to project manage events and gets satisfaction in communicating with people organising events, seeing them through to the end and evaluating how they went so they can improve the next event.

What We Offer in Return:

• Access to a workplace pension scheme – with generous employer contributions
• Enhanced occupational sick pay scheme and access to family friendly policies and benefits
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits and support
• Staff recognition scheme, including long service awards
• Fantastic family friendly policies
• Free on-site parking on all College sites

Please visit the Careers section on our website for full details of our benefits http://www.eastlancslearning.ac.uk/

Further Questions?

Please contact our friendly HR Team

Please note we only accept applications submitted via our website

All of our posts are subject to an enhanced DBS check due to working with vulnerable adults and children. Should you wish to discuss this further, please get in touch with the HR team.