Learning Architect

Rathbones; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rathbones is seeking a Learning Curriculum Designer (Financial Services) to design and govern the Rathbones Institute’s curriculum architecture, ensuring coherence and continual improvement across all components. This role develops mastery-based programs for Wealth Managers and Financial Planners, translating Institute vision into a scalable curriculum framework.

The role requires strong experience in learning design for financial services, stakeholder collaboration, and a data-driven approach

Qualifications

• Strong experience in learning architecture, curriculum design, instructional design or capability framework development.
• Understanding of financial services, wealth management, regulatory learning and professional qualifications is highly desirable.
• Ability to design for mastery, assessment, personalisation and applied workplace performance rather than content completion alone.
• Confident stakeholder manager able to work across senior business leaders, SMEs, learning teams and external partners.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using learning data and evaluation to drive improvement.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end learning architecture for the Institute, ensuring clear pathways, coherent curriculum sequencing and alignment to graduate standards.
• Design mastery-based curricula that combine technical knowledge, applied skills, professional judgement, ethical conduct and commercial capability.
• Define curriculum standards, module design principles, assessment expectations and evidence requirements for progression gates.
• Partner with subject matter experts, trainers, coaches, assessors and business stakeholders to translate business needs into high-impact learning experiences.
• Ensure learning design reflects realistic client, market, investment, planning and conduct-risk scenarios relevant to wealth management.
• Maintain curriculum maps showing links between learning outcomes, assessments, qualifications, behavioural expectations and role readiness.
• Establish quality assurance routines for programme materials, facilitation, learner experience, assessment validity and learning transfer.
• Use learner data, evaluation outputs, stakeholder feedback and business outcomes to continually improve the Institute curriculum.
• Identify gaps in the existing learning catalogue and recommend build, buy or partner solutions to close critical capability gaps.
• Act as the design authority for Institute learning standards, ensuring consistency while allowing personalisation by learner profile and pace.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with the Institute’s Learning Experience Platform provider, professional bodies and training providers, supporting effective delivery and a positive learner experience.

Job description

Division: Talent, Performance & Learning

Location: Edinburgh / Glasgow / Liverpool / London

Contract: 12 months

About the Role

Designs and governors the overall learning architecture for the Rathbones Institute, ensuring curriculum coherence, quality, evaluation and continual improvement across all components. The role is responsible for translating the Institute vision into a clear, mastery-based curriculum architecture that develops outstanding Wealth Managers, Investment Managers, Financial Planners and Business Development professionals.

Job description:

Role Title: Learning Curriculum Designer (Financial Services)

Division: Talent, Performance & Learning

Location: Edinburgh / Glasgow / Liverpool / London

Contract: 12 months

About the Role

Designs and governors the overall learning architecture for the Rathbones Institute, ensuring curriculum coherence, quality, evaluation and continual improvement across all components. The role is responsible for translating the Institute vision into a clear, mastery-based curriculum architecture that develops outstanding Wealth Managers, Investment Managers, Financial Planners and Business Development professionals.

Financial services experience is essential, with previous experience within the Wealth Management sector strongly preferred.

What you’ll be responsible for

• Own the end-to-end learning architecture for the Institute, ensuring clear pathways, coherent curriculum sequencing and alignment to graduate standards.
• Design mastery-based curricula that combine technical knowledge, applied skills, professional judgement, ethical conduct and commercial capability.
• Define curriculum standards, module design principles, assessment expectations and evidence requirements for progression gates.
• Partner with subject matter experts, trainers, coaches, assessors and business stakeholders to translate business needs into high-impact learning experiences.
• Ensure learning design reflects realistic client, market, investment, planning and conduct-risk scenarios relevant to wealth management.
• Maintain curriculum maps showing links between learning outcomes, assessments, qualifications, behavioural expectations and role readiness.
• Establish quality assurance routines for programme materials, facilitation, learner experience, assessment validity and learning transfer.
• Use learner data, evaluation outputs, stakeholder feedback and business outcomes to continually improve the Institute curriculum.
• Identify gaps in the existing learning catalogue and recommend build, buy or partner solutions to close critical capability gaps.
• Act as the design authority for Institute learning standards, ensuring consistency while allowing personalisation by learner profile and pace.
• Manage day-to-day relationships with the Institute’s Learning Experience Platform provider, professional bodies and training providers, supporting effective delivery and a positive learner experience.

About you

If you meet some of these criteria and are excited about the role, we encourage you to apply

• Strong experience in learning architecture, curriculum design, instructional design or capability framework development.
• Understanding of financial services, wealth management, regulatory learning and professional qualifications is highly desirable.
• Ability to design for mastery, assessment, personalisation and applied workplace performance rather than content completion alone.
• Confident stakeholder manager able to work across senior business leaders, SMEs, learning teams and external partners.
• Strong analytical capability, with experience using learning data and evaluation to drive improvement.