Senior Manager, Learning & Development

MINDSG Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization in Singapore is seeking a Senior Manager, Learning & Development. The role involves establishing the learning strategy, developing talent programs, and enhancing employee capabilities. Candidates should have a degree in Human Resources or Business Administration, along with at least 10 years of relevant experience and strong leadership skills. This position focuses on driving organizational learning initiatives and requires excellent communication and negotiation skills, as well as a background in HR transformation.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of relevant working experience, with at least 5 years in a middle to senior L&D role.
• Strong leadership and supervisory skills are required.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct learning needs analysis to assess current capabilities and areas for development.
• Develop customized learning and development strategies and curricula.
• Engage with senior management to develop organizational learning strategies.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Coaching

Systems thinking

Education

Degree in Human Resource Management or Business Administration

HR Professional Certification

Job description

About Us

MINDS has been caring for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities (PWIDs) and their families since 1962.

Grounded in the belief that all PWIDs have innate abilities and talents, MINDS is committed to empowering them and enhancing their quality of life, while advocating for greater inclusivity for PWIDs as a nation. MINDS is today one of the largest charities in Singapore employing more than 1000 staff. With the key focus to expand community-based services, improving the employability of PWIDS, strengthening education, and engendering inclusive community living, MINDS offers a holistic range of services and programmes across the PWIDs' lifespan. These include schools, employment and training development centres, home-based care services and community-based services to cater to the physical, psychological, environmental and social needs of PWIDs. For more information, please visit www.minds.org.sg.

Job Description

The Senior Manager, Learning & Development is responsible for establishing the organisation's learning and development strategy and recommending organisational design and/or change interventions to deliver business strategies and plans effectively. He/she collate and monitor the budgets for learning and development programmes to build capabilities in the organisation. He/she influences stakeholders to redesign the organisational model and spearheads organisational change interventions to drive the integration of Competencies / Skills Frameworks across the organisation's learning programmes. He/she develops and oversees talent development programme to support succession planning, career progression, and employee engagement. He/she builds leadership capability across all levels through Integrating leadership frameworks (e.g. Clifton Strengths, Serving Leader) into development pathways.

Job Responsibilities

• Conduct learning needs analysis to assess their current capabilities and areas of development required to deliver against the organisation's strategy, business restructuring and future plans.
• Develop customised learning and development strategies, plans and curricula to improve overall workforce capabilities for current and future roles, and to promote lifelong learning.
• Engage with senior management / HODs to seek clarity on business strategy and develop organisational learning and development strategies based on organisation's current and future business and skill requirements.
• Compile and monitor budget for learning and development and prioritise spending to invest on strategic organisational capabilities to enable current and future business strategy and objectives.
• Monitor and assess the effectiveness and business impact of learning and development strategy and programmes to meet current and future business needs.
• Apply data governance concepts and principles to identify, collect and prepare data for analytics and HR metrics benchmarking.
• Look across a series of data and anticipate implications of business activity on HR practices.
• Review and develop HR policies, practices or strategies that competitively position organisation as an employer of choice.
• Develop communication material/ information kits for the HR programmes/ activities to convey desired learning and development messages clearly and effectively.
• Create high impact, consistent and accurate messaging using appropriate tools to drive staff learning and development, aligned with the organisation-wide communications strategy.
• Understand organisational and individual challenges, help the senior leaders to define the problem and identify root cause of the development related issues
• Leverage Skills Maps of the Skills Frameworks to identify learning gaps and develop competency framework.
• Create and align learning roadmaps and programmes with reference to MINDS Career Maps and MINDS Competency Framework.
• Establish Learning & Development strategy in accordance with MINDS Competency Framework components.

Qualification & Skills

• Degree in Human Resource Management or Business Administration or equivalent
• HR Professional Certification

Other Information

• At least 10 years of relevant working experience, with at least 5 years in a middle to senior L&D role.
• Strong leadership and supervisory skills, with exemplary personal conduct and professionalism.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and interpersonal skills both written and verbal.
• Coaching, System thinking, Leadership Development background
• Should preferably have experience in HR transformation projects leading to excellence in organisation culture or learning & development or HR practices.