Learning and Development Partner

Join us were an Investors in People Gold Standard Company and this is your opportunity to make your mark in a growing organisation that needs future focused L&D.

We have an exciting brand new opportunity for a strong and enthusiastic L&D Partner to join us and help change the face of Learning at Ground Control!

You will become a key member of our L&D team delivering newly designed modern blended learning materials bespoke materials and programmes to a hungry audience. Youll own your own programmes play a part in the research and help to design all our content. Youll use your design skills to create modules for programmes partner with our eLearning Manager for new materials Bitesize guides and manage an online social learning platform keeping your learners engaged.

The main part of your role is life skills management development and early Leadership programme delivery but because youre so well organised and pay attention to detail youll have plenty of time to build your design and business partnering skills too. This is an excellent time to join and build your experience and your future career by joining us at such a critical time in our expansion.

Youll also be looking after induction and helping our new hires to have the best experience as they start with us. When we get bespoke requests for support youll get to create and launch those solutions too. The role you play will truly be critical to the entire business.

What we offer:

At Ground Control we believe in creating an inspirational environment and rewarding our employees for their hard work. We offer a wideranging benefits program supporting you to realise your full potential and are proud to be recognised as a great place to work:

Awards Accolades and Culture

• We have been awarded worldclass status for employee engagement in the 2023 best companies results ranking at #16 in the Top 100 Large Companies to Work For league table.

• CertifiedBCorp Accredited Ground Control has been certified by B Lab the notforprofit behind the B Corp movement as having met rigorous social and environmental standards which represent its commitment to sustainable goals ahead of profit.

• We inclusively support The Race at Work Charter Ban the Box The Armed Forces Covenant and are Disability Confident

• We invest 5% of our profits into theEvergreen Fund an investment fund dedicated to sustainability and environmental initiatives.

• By 2025 we have committed to plantingtrees having a fully electric fleet and achievingcarbon net zeroafter becoming carbon neutral in 2020.

• 2 personal choice volunteering days with your fundraising efforts matched up to 500!

Perks and Benefits

• Free gym access if you are Head Office based or subsidised national gym memberships if you are based elsewhere.

• Nursery Vouchers Cycle to work scheme and Travel loans

• Medigold employee support Free Flu Jabs online private GP service and a premium subscription to Calm the wellbeing app

• A supportive entrepreneurial working environment that fosters collaboration.

• Training development coaching and mentoring plans including our GC Leadership Academy job specific accreditations and higher education opportunities

• Hybrid working opportunities with time in the office including breakfast Mondays and dog friendly Fridays.

• Financial benefits include yearly bonus scheme access to Wagestream and employee share options
  

How we work:

We put people at the centre of everything we do.
Everyone is welcome. Were embracing a culture where difference is valued. Your uniqueness will be celebrated. We believe diversity grows innovation and innovation creates initiative. Together well succeed in caring for each other caring for our communities and caring for our Environment. Together were stronger.

Who are we looking for

Outgoing confident and energetic you will be someone with experience in L&D design delivery and business partnership who can help us to create a modern learning culture across our business and help bring learning to life for different audiences with varying needs. Youll be flexible innovative and willing to work hard but with a solid purpose every day. You can be based anywhere in the UK but youll need super strong WiFi to be effective! Youll sometimes be working from home or one of our offices or occasionally a venue somewhere in the UK.

As any business in growth will ask your resilience levels will need to be high. Youll report to our experienced Head of L&D who will guide nurture and develop you every step of the way as you help bring their vision to life. Wed love to help you build on some of these skills but youll need to already have measurable experience of design and delivery in a fastpaced organisation and must be a dab hand at delivering engaging sessions via webinars and face to face with both small and large audiences

The team is fun passionate and love what they do so youll need to show those same qualities to hit the ground running and help them smash their goals.

Youll be mainly focused on:

• Researching adapting and embedding modern learning techniques across all materials

• Designing delivering and management of inhouse development programmes

• Design and delivery of a new leadership programme

• Helping to run a group mentor and coaching programme

• Creating fun and engaging bitesize on demand content

• Making induction a memorable experience

• Working on bespoke learning requests from the business

• Working on bitesize and on demand solutions

• Partnering with senior leaders across the business

• Evaluation of programmes to prove ROI

• Communicating selling and landing our offer across the business

• Creating a culture of learning across a growing business

This role will be a hybrid role but spending most of the time either at home to deliver exciting training or in an office or venue for some of our programs. Well flex this around you as we grow but wed like you to spend at least 2 days per month in our office in Billericay with the rest of the team and meet your manager outside the office occasionally so some travel will be involved (hell meet you halfway!)

We will support you with any studies if you need that once youve completed your probationary period but you must be highly selfmotivated as you will need to complete this at the same time as your busy role.

If youd like this opportunity to truly make your mark and develop an envious skill set designing and delivering training in a growing multimillionpound business then apply now!

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