Learning and Development Specialist (FTC) - #1707605

About Baringa

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk, or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life. Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world - from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there's a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Our Learning and Development team are looking for an experienced Learning Specialist to join them on an initial 14-month FTC.

This is an excellent opportunity to join our award winning and forward-thinking L&D team. If you're looking to be part of high performing team of passionate L&D experts, design and deliver great learning solutions, and work with our brilliant consultants we want to hear from you.

What You Will Be Doing

You’ll work across Baringa to identify and create innovative learning solutions that enable our Leadership team and people to be great at work. You’ll do this by building close relationships with our Leaders and the business units you partner with, proactively looking for opportunities to add value to their world through learning.

• Building strong relationships with your client group and across Baringa, operating as a trusted learning advisor and guide.
• Proactively leading new learning initiatives to support people strategies and demand across our consultants, Leaders and executives’ performance.
• Product managing our Leadership and Exec development programmes, making sure it performs as it should and responsible for the ongoing continuous improvement roadmap.
• Driving the end-to-end L&D consultation and design approach - from concept and needs analysis, design and deployment, through to a debriefing and evaluation.
• Bringing L&D team members and external providers together to curate, create and deploy engaging learning solutions - whilst being hands-on with the design yourself.
• Expertly facilitating these solutions – in person or virtually – across the firm and the regions we operate in.
• Manage and coordinate our Leadership coaching programme, ensuring it empowers and transforms our leaders to reach their full potential.
• Oversee the management of our Leadership psychometric tools (e.g. Clifton Strengths), ensuring they are effectively integrated into our Exec and Leadership programmes.
  
  

Your Skills And Experience

• Experience and passion for designing, delivering and managing Leadership development programmes.
• A proactive, motivated, self-starter with the ability to influence and lead others.
• A track record of designing and delivering excellent blended learning experiences including virtual, in person, and digital.
• Experienced in leading on the full cycle of learning consultation, design and delivery – working with stakeholders to co-create the end solution.
• Confidence and presence to challenge and influence stakeholders where needed.
• Experienced in developing forward looking, innovative strategies that deliver value and impact.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to engage senior stakeholders.
• Comfortable delivering within agile and changing environments.
• Have a passion for teamwork and collaboration.
• Awareness of Leadership and learning trends and theories, be well networked in the learning and talent community.
  
  

What a Career At Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First.

Benefits

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.
  
  

Diversity and Inclusion.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace.

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further .