Senior Learning Partner: Learning Experience Design, Standard Bank Group at Standard Bank Group

Job Description
We are looking for a senior manager to help design Group-wide learning solutions to enhance the value of Learning in delivering on our strategy and moving towards our vision – Africa is our home, we drive her growth. In this role, you will deliver on our Learning strategy by researching and designing diverse development experiences in partnership with business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) colleagues.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic designer, efficient project manager, and problem solver, who can manage complex learning delivery.  We need someone ready to work in a changing environment, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills.

Qualifications
Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Social Science or equivalent. 

Experience required

• A solid 8-10 years of experience in learning, including 3-4 years of leading a team.
• Research, design, develop and implement multi-year Group-wide learning programmes.
• Design sustainable and well managed programmes and processes.
• Engage the business leaders and People and Culture (P&C) community on learning needs and optimal design.
• Experiment with learning and people insights technologies to optimise the value of learning experiences.
• Devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences. 
• Engage with a range of learning modalities to create impactful learning experiences.
• Use strong stakeholder management and communication skills to devise the best solutions.
• Scan the global environment and integrate macro trends in learning design and delivery into our designs.
• Coach learning teams to design optimally.
• Collaborate across P&C centres of excellence and all learning teams across the business.
• Manage collaborative and respectful relationships with partner vendors.

Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies

• Developing Strategies
• Providing Insights
• Embracing Change
• Challenging Ideas
• Making Decisions
• Team Working

Technical Competencies

• Learning and Development: Strong experience in Learning and Development.
• Project Management: Exceptional skills in managing and organising multiple parallel projects.
• Learning Design: Exceptional skills in learning experience design and academy design.
• Communications: Strong stakeholder engagement, negotiation, collaboration and presentation skills. 
• External Partnership: Experience in partnering with vendors for learning value.
• Learning Technology Adoption: Ability to devise and execute plans, engagements and campaigns to increase adoption of learning tools for increased engagement with learning experiences. 
• Learning Technology: Experience in sharing learning experience digitally through most appropriate platforms – LMSs, LXPs, micro-learning platforms, content libraries etc. Experience in using people insights technology to harness data insights for learning experience improvement.