Learning & Development Officer

Birketts LLP; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Birketts LLP, a leading UK law firm, seeks a Learning & Development Officer to enhance training for future and junior lawyers. The role involves developing programs, conducting training needs analysis, and ensuring that resources meet learners' requirements. You will work in a collaborative environment that values ambition and personal growth.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Private Healthcare with BUPA

Life Assurance - 4 x salary

Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave

Subsidised gym membership

Flexible and inclusive work environment

Qualifications

• Hands-on delivery role focused on future and junior lawyers and business services professionals.
• Ability to design formal and informal learning interventions.
• Responsible for ensuring the training environment meets learner needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage learning programs for junior lawyers.
• Evaluate effectiveness of training programs.
• Prepare learning environments, including setting up IT equipment.

Skills

Training Needs Analysis

Delivery of Learning Interventions

Quality Assurance

Evaluation of Training Programs

Job description

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Birketts is a full service, UK Top 50 law firm. With a heritage spanning 160 years, we have more than 700 lawyers and legal professionals based in Bristol, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Ipswich, London, Norwich and Sevenoaks. We advise businesses, government and public sector organisations and individuals in the UK and internationally across four principal practice groups: Real Estate, Corporate Services, Dispute Resolution and Private Client.

We are defined by our Next Level Law proposition. We work with our clients as a proactive partner, horizon scanning and thinking ahead to the changes, challenges or opportunities that they may face.

Next Level Law is also applied to our people. Our collegiate culture means everyone is encouraged to achieve their next level in everything they do. RollOnFriday recently ranked us as the 5th best law firm to work at in 2024.

With our ambition to succeed, comes a strong desire to make a positive contribution to the communities we serve, and we are committed to delivering the objectives set out in our ESG strategy. Diversity plays an integral part in all that we do, with female partners comprising 40% of our partnership.

The department

L&D is a core element of our People offering, as Birketts LLP believes that staff development and learning should be an integral part of the firm’s strategic planning; to enable staff to perform their individual roles effectively and with confidence, and to ensure that we achieve our common objectives and plans for growth.

The central Learning & Development (L&D) team provides learning and development for all staff through training programmes and other development support. Developing our talent and delivers business systems knowledge, business skills and personal development training for all team members within the firm

The L&D team are mainly based in Ipswich and sits alongside the other people functions including HR.

Purpose of job

The job holder will be responsible for the development, delivery and management of programs aimed a predominately future and junior lawyers and business services professionals. This is a hands-on delivery role.

Accountabilities

• Delivering and developing learning interventions, and programme within the current learning programme framework and Future lawyers Induction programs in line with firm and Learning and Development (L&D) strategy. Liaising with appropriate stakeholders to ensure learning needs are established and met.
• Managing the future lawyer’s professional qualification requirements in conjunction with Early years and Head of L&D
• Carrying out Training Needs Analysis (TNA) for target approach to skills and development opportunities. Working with both external consultants internal SME and delivery some aspects of the programme.
• Designing both formal and informal learning interventions with accompanying materials such as handouts, exercises and trainer notes.
• Contributing to and assisting with quality assurance of electronic learning materials.
• Ensuring the learning environment and resources support learner needs.
• Preparing the learning environment and resources; including setting up IT equipment where appropriate.
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of training programmes and learning outcomes.
• Appropriate record keeping on training delivered to assist the L&D Administrator in ensuring that data is accurate.
• Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and skills are kept up to date, using internal and external resources and tools. Requesting training where necessary.
  
  
  

The candidate

• Delivering and developing learning interventions, and programme within the current learning programme framework and Future lawyers Induction programs in line with firm and Learning and Development (L&D) strategy. Liaising with appropriate stakeholders to ensure learning needs are established and met.
• Managing the future lawyer’s professional qualification requirements in conjunction with Early years and Head of L&D
• Carrying out Training Needs Analysis (TNA) for target approach to skills and development opportunities. Working with both external consultants internal SME and delivery some aspects of the programme.
• Designing both formal and informal learning interventions with accompanying materials such as handouts, exercises and trainer notes.
• Contributing to and assisting with quality assurance of electronic learning materials.
• Ensuring the learning environment and resources support learner needs.
• Preparing the learning environment and resources; including setting up IT equipment where appropriate.
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of training programmes and learning outcomes.
• Appropriate record keeping on training delivered to assist the L&D Administrator in ensuring that data is accurate.
• Responsible for ensuring own knowledge and skills are kept up to date, using internal and external resources and tools. Requesting training where necessary.
  
  
  

Equal opportunities

At Birketts, our culture is driven by ambition and a commitment to positively impact all the communities we serve. We are dedicated to the success, development, and wellbeing of our colleagues, helping them achieve their goals and seize the opportunities that come with our growth. Alongside a flexible and inclusive work environment, we offer the following core benefits:

• 25 days holiday (FTE) plus Bank Holidays
• Long Service holiday award – 1 extra week every 10 years continuous service
• Private Healthcare with BUPA (offered after probation is passed)
• Scottish Widows Pension Scheme (5% employer / 5% Employee)
• Staff Profit Share and Individual Performance Bonus Scheme
• Salary sacrifice (Pensions, Staff Profit Share)
• Life Assurance - 4 x salary / Permanent Health Insurance
• Paid CSR Day
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave
• Subsidised gym membership
• Electric car scheme
• Agile/Hybrid Working Policy
• Dress for your Day Policy
  
  
  

https://www.birketts.co.uk/recognition-reward-benefits/

Birketts is a flexible business which has embraced a hybrid working model where our colleagues enjoy a mix of home and office working. We welcome applications from people looking for flexible, agile, and part-time roles and we are happy to explore your preferred working patterns as part of your application.

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.

Birketts is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is unequivocal: we do not tolerate discrimination based on age, disability, sex, race, religion or belief, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, or sexual orientation.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive organisation that actively promotes equality of opportunity for all, valuing the right mix of talent, skills, and potential. We welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates, and selection for roles is based solely on individual merit.

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