Learning and Development Advisor

We're looking for a Learning and Development Advisor to join our Infrastructure team based in Birmingham, London or Manchester.

Location: National Role – Birmingham, London, Manchester
Hours: 37.5 hours per week - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us
We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

The Learning and Development Advisor provides specialist advice and assurance on workforce competence and training compliance across the Infrastructure business, helping ensure our people have the training, skills and qualifications to work safely and effectively. You'll work with Health, Safety & Wellbeing, technical and operational stakeholders to challenge performance, influence accountable managers and recommend appropriate action.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Learning and Development Advisor, you'll be working within the Infrastructure team, supporting them in ensuring workforce competence and training compliance. Your day to day will include:

• Interpreting mandatory, statutory, client and role-specific requirements and advising the business on appropriate training and competence controls
• Analysing compliance and competence information to identify trends, gaps and emerging risks across contracts and functions
• Developing clear management information and assurance reports for operational leaders and senior stakeholders
• Acting as a trusted adviser to Health, Safety & Wellbeing, technical, operational and HR stakeholders on training compliance and workforce capability
• Leading improvements to reporting, governance and processes that strengthen assurance and reduce compliance risk

What are we looking for?

This Learning and Development Advisor role could be a great fit if you're an experienced L&D professional who enjoys delivering effective learning solutions, building strong stakeholder relationships and supporting training initiatives in a commercial environment. You'll bring:

• Significant experience in Learning and Development, with a strong track record of supporting successful training initiatives in a commercial environment
• A solid understanding of current learning and development practices, approaches and techniques
• Excellent communication, relationship-building and networking skills, with the confidence to engage with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong organisation and self-motivation, combined with a collaborative approach to working across different teams and stakeholders
• Good Microsoft Office skills and the flexibility to travel nationwide when required to support learning and development projects

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.