Learning & Development Assistant

Pinsent Masons; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Learning & Development Assistant to join their dynamic Birmingham team. This role offers a unique opportunity to provide crucial administrative support to the Learning and Development Team, ensuring smooth logistical management of various training offerings. You will work closely with experienced professionals, coordinating instructor-led sessions and utilizing learning management systems to enhance participant engagement. In a supportive and inclusive environment, your contributions will directly impact the success of the team and the development of its members. If you're passionate about learning and development, this is the perfect chance to grow your career.

Qualifications

• Experience in administrative roles, ideally in professional services.
• Ability to manage logistics for learning and development programs.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative support to the Learning and Development Team.
• Coordinate development programs and manage logistics effectively.

Skills

Administrative Support

Logistical Management

Learning Management System (LMS)

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

Tools

In-house Finance System

Intranet Management

Job description

Job Description

Learning & Development Assistant

Birmingham

Role Overview

Here at Pinsent Masons we bring together the best people to get the job done. We’re naturally curious, constantly learning, listening, and growing. We’ll truly value your ideas. You’ll be joining an award-winning, hardworking and commercially minded team, where you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading experts and form meaningful relationships, while making a difference. You’ll get the opportunity to be involved in varied and challenging work. Working in an open and supportive environment, to deliver outstanding results.

Our people are our success, and we work as one team.

We are recruiting a Learning & Development Assistant to provide an excellent standard of administrative support to the Learning and Development Team based in our Birmingham office.

Our standard working hours are 9.30am-5.30pm, however, we are happy to consider flexible working requests.

Candidate Overview

We are looking for candidates who ideally hold the following skills and experience:

1. Previous administrative and support based work experience, preferably obtained within the professional services environment.
2. Responsible for the logistical management of various learning and development offerings, accurately following existing administration processes to ensure consistency across the team.
3. Working with the L&D Manager and/or L&D Consultants to effectively co-ordinate development programmes, including the scheduling of instructor-led training sessions and management of other blended learning activities.
4. Collaborating with the team to utilise the Learning Management System (LMS) in relation to the learning and development offerings.
5. Creating advertisements for learning and development offerings to encourage participant engagement.
6. Regularly monitoring engagement levels of learning and development offerings with further advertisement required, if necessary.
7. Responsible for ensuring workshops are suitably evaluated via feedback questionnaires to continuously improve learning activities, generating reports for review and data analysis.
8. Updating the L&D pages on the firm's intranet with up-to-date information.
9. Drafting letters of engagement and contracts for our external providers.
10. Processing global invoices for the external providers using the in-house finance system.
11. Updating the L&D budgets spreadsheet and supporting the L&D Manager/Consultant to manage spend.

What happens next?

Once your application has been submitted and reviewed, our Recruitment team will share the outcome with you by email.

We typically hold two interview stages per vacancy providing the opportunity to meet two members of the hiring team at each stage. The first stage is typically conducted virtually and the second stage typically in person at the office in which the role would be based. However, we strive to remain flexible depending on the requirements of the role or the candidate.

Our strength lies in our differences.

We are a Disability Confident and top Stonewall employer, a Valuable 500 member, a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and a proud partner of Neurodiversity in Law. We encourage and value different ideas and styles of thinking. It’s with different perspectives that we’ll find solutions to our clients’ most complex challenges. It’s how we’ll deliver outstanding results today, and tomorrow. We want everybody attending an interview to be comfortable and able to fully demonstrate their experience and talents.

As an inclusive employer, we are willing to consider any flexible working requests.