Learning and Development Assistant

Join Fieldfisher as a Learning and Development Assistant!

Join a dynamic and fastpaced People Development team at Fieldfisher where you will play a crucial role in supporting our training and development initiatives. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to maintaining excellence in employee development and ensuring the seamless of various training and growth programmes. Your efforts will directly impact the career progression and skill enhancement of our employees.

The People Development team which is part of the wider HR department services all of our European network of offices as well as providing support to our US office. We work closely with the firms lawyers business services and legal support services tohelp boost them from where they are now to where they need to be to provide the best service to their clients.

Through our Business Skills curricula Academy programmes and other programmes and projects we enable people to build new capabilities and growtheir existing skillsets to ensure they can meet their individual team and firm objectives.

Responsibilities include:

• Training Records Management: Maintain and update training records track new joiners and keep core data spreadsheets current to reflect accurate employee development progress.
• Session Management: Handle midlevel/advanced Business Services sessions including scheduling liaising with training providers booking appropriate rooms managing diaries arranging catering IT equipment and course materials drafting communications and invitations monitoring attendance and recording training data.
• Support for Training Programmes: Assist with preparations for our Fee Earner and Business Services Management Academies Leadership Programmes and New Partner training by coordinating scheduling drafting and sending invites preparing materials and managing logistics.
• In person support:travel will be required from time to time to help support the team with running workshops and other programme setup.
• Material Maintenance: Support the maintenance and updating of materials for the core L&D sessions alongside data analytics to inform program improvements.
• Sponsorship Agreements and External Courses Coordination: Oversee the coordination budget checks booking payments monitoring and intranet updates related to sponsorship agreements and external course.
• Intranet and Resource Updates: Update the Whats On page and other intranet sections PD know how resources and collating and creating ondemand and digital resources.
• Communication Support: Manage welcome and welcome back emails to ensure new joiners feel supported and informed.
• Administrative Tasks: Barclaycard credit card administration scheduling internal 1:1s psychometric tools allocation and monthly team meeting scheduling
• PD Inbox Triage: Work with PD Administrator to be the first point of contact for the PD inbox managing and triaging inquiries to ensure swift and effective responses.
• Support ad hoc team projects and general coordination and support for the PD team

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong organisational and multitasking skills with the ability to manage time effectively think ahead and around challenges and provide solutions
• Confident communication and ability to engage and collaborate with internal colleagues
• Excellent attention to detail
• Enthusiasm for learning and development processes
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to adapt to new software
• A proactive selfmotivated and flexible approach to work with the ability to work independently and collaboratively within a team
• Experience in a similar role in a professional services environment is desirable

What We Offer:

• Inclusive & Supportive Environment: Were a firm with real entrepreneurial drive and we dont believe in squashing peoples individuality. Our hybrid working model and open plan workspaces encourage a sense of camaraderie.
• Comprehensive and Flexible Benefits Package: Our offering includes private medical insurance health cash plan dental insurance life assurance critical illness insurance matched pension contributions up to 7 holiday trading plus many more. Visit: Reward & Benefits Fieldfisher for further information.
• Modern Office Space: Located in the iconic Titanic Quarter with excellent commuter links and onsite parking.
• Training and Development: Well give you bespoke support to develop your career with our people development and IT training teams.
• Social & Community Engagement: Participate in clubs networks inclusive events and charity initiatives.

Inclusion at Fieldfisher:

At Fieldfisher led by the social model of disability we are working towards removing accessibility barriers and maximising disability and neurodiversity inclusion in our recruitment processes.

Should you have any accessibility requirements please contact a member of Fieldfishers recruitment team who will work with you to implement suitable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All conversations are treated in the strictest of confidence and we would appreciate your feedback to ensure we can provide an accessible and enjoyable recruitment process.

For accessibility information on our Belfast offices visit:Fieldfisher Belfast Hub Accessibility

Recruitment process:

• An online application form (completed by clicking the apply now button) and CV submission.
• 2030minute introductory call with one of our experienced recruiters.
• The interview process varies depending on the role you apply for. However your recruitment contact will always let you know what to expect from the process so nothing should come as a surprise.
• For hybrid opportunities candidates will be invited to visit our offices and meet the team facetoface.
• Our average process takes around 23 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team at various points during your process but if you have any specific questions before this please contact us at.

Please note that we recruit on a rolling basis meaning that your application will most likely be reviewed before the application deadline. We will continue to accept applications until we have successfully filled the role.

Fieldfisher is Times Top 20 Law Firm a highly commended firm in the European Financial Times Innovative Lawyers rankings and is repeatedly nominated for awards in areas including dispute resolution M&A and IP. Many of our lawyers are recognised by legal directories as leading professionals in their areas of specialism and we are top tworanked in a number of our key practice areas.

Our network spans over 1800 people across 26 international offices in 12 countries.

We operate across our offices in Amsterdam Barcelona Beijing Belfast 2 Berlin Birmingham Bologna Brussels Dublin Dsseldorf Frankfurt Guangzhou Hamburg London Luxembourg Madrid Manchester Milan Munich Paris Rome Shanghai Turin Venice Vienna and Silicon Valley.

Fieldfisher aims to ensure equality of opportunity and we are actively working towards improving the diversity of our staff. All applications will only be considered on merit and the applicants suitability to meet the requirements of the role.