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Lipson Lloyd - Jones PSL

Salary

From £65,000 to £85,000 per year

Location

The City

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Do you have experience of skills training within a leading law or professional services firm? This premier law firm seeks an experienced Learning and Development Manager with a proven track record in designing, delivering and running skills training sessions and programmes for professionals.



The successful candidate will have excellent communication and organisational skills, be confident, tenacious and yet tactful and flexible and be comfortable managing and dealing with people of a variety of levels of seniority. Lipson Lloyd Jones Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

We aim to respond to all applications within two working days.

If we have not contacted you within this time frame your application has been unsuccessful and your details have not been retained. Please apply for any other positions that you may see in the future.

Please note our advertisements use PQE levels purely as a guide to the minimum level of experience required.

However we are happy to consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary to fulfill this kind of work.

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Law Support

Salary

From £40,000 to £45,000 per year + Plus Benefits

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

This large international law firm is looking for an IT Trainer to coordinate and oversee the training aspect of a large-scale international Office 2010 and Desktop project. Duties will include the production of a range of training materials, completing and maintaining all training administration, delivery of one-to-one, workshop and classroom training, taking ownership of user desktop issues, finding solutions and feeding them back to the users, updating and maintain training material on the Intranet, liaising with international IT members and other colleagues regarding training facilities and also with external providers to arrange training delivery. There is also the opportunity to work on various projects in the firm’s other offices around the world.

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Lewis Bear Recruitment

Salary

From £30,000 to £35,000 per year + Full benefits package

Location

London

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Our client, a leading international law firm have an opportunity for an experienced and forward thinking L&D professional to join this team. You would have primary responsibility for planning, coordinating and evaluating the business skills programmes for Associates and Business support staff and secretarial training programmes. You'll design and deliver training on such topics and for such audiences as would be appropriate given your previous experience and areas of expertise and will generally to assist with the development and promotion of the training function within the firm.

Key Responsibilities:
Business skills programmes
* Responsible for the firm's junior and senior business skills programmes including:
* reviewing appraisal data to assess trends in programme needs;
* booking internal and external trainers; booking rooms, equipment and refreshments;
* advertising courses;
* sending diary appointments;
* producing course materials;
* providing contact point for external and internal trainers both before and on the day of the programme;
* monitoring attendance;
* updating CPD records;
* producing, distributing and reviewing feedback forms;
* liaising with external and internal trainers where changes to programme needed;
* arranging payment of invoices;
* overseeing the MBA Skills programme

Associates Development Centres
* Responsible for coordinating the firm's four programmes and three Bridging the Gap days each year including:
* attending pre-programme planning meetings with the design team;
* booking external consultant facilitators and role players;
* finding and booking suitable venues;
* identifying and inviting appropriate attendees;
* liaising with other offices to invite appropriate peer group associates;
* sending diary appointments;
* arranging and delivering briefing meeting;
* reviewing draft materials and coordinating preparation of final version of materials for handouts;
* preparation of Joining Instructions, bundles of pre-reading and briefing material for role players;
* co-ordination of completion of psychometric tests by participants pre-programme;
* event management and co-ordination with the venue before, during and after each programme;
* attending each programme as a co-facilitator.
* monitoring attendance and updating records of programme completion and CPD records of attendees;
* reviewing feedback and arranging post programme review meeting with external consultants.
* attending post programme review meetings with the design team.
* undertaking one-to-one follow up meetings with Associates post programme attendance to discuss development needs identified and what support may be required.

Secretarial and Support staff programmes
* Responsible for the firm's secretarial and support staff programmes including:
* liaising with the Secretarial Services Manager to review secretarial training needs;
* booking internal and external trainers; booking rooms, equipment and refreshments;
* advertising courses;
* sending diary appointments;
* producing course materials;
* providing contact point for external and internal trainers both before and on the day of the programme;
* monitoring attendance;
* updating CPD records;
* producing, distributing and reviewing feedback forms;
* liaising with external and internal trainers where changes to programme needed;
* arranging payment of invoices.
* reviewing modules of programme to ensure meeting needs of business and meeting standards of delivery expected.
* Responsible for the Business Services Managers programme - liaising with external trainer, booking sessions, preparation of materials, reviewing and updating course content as required

NQ Induction
* Responsible for planning, administering and coordinating firm's annual 2-day NQ induction programme including:
* preparing schedule;
* inviting internal and external trainers;
* finding and booking suitable venue;
* inviting NQs and sending diary appointments;
* coordinating preparation of materials;
* providing contact point for internal and external trainers before and on the day of the programme;
* attending the programme for quality control purposes and as session facilitator;
* reviewing feedback and producing feedback summary.
Annual appraisal process
* Delivery of appraisal training for Secretarial and Support staff each year.
* Collection and review of business skills training needs data from appraisal forms and production of training needs summary.

Assisting with preparation and monitoring of annual budget as regards spend on business skills programmes and secretarial and support staff programmes
* Responsible for the preparation of the annual budget, including liaising with Heads of Business Support departments and Head of L&D.
* Monitoring budget, arrange payments and Inputting into budget updating exercises during the year.

Individual performance management requests
* Providing point of contact for HR team as regards individual requests for support related to performance management issues.
* Advising on development support available internally and liaising with individual fee earners and supervisors as necessary to implement proposals.
* Creative solutions for people who need coaching
* Advising and / or designing solutions for teams where there has been a change of manager / dysfunctional - sourcing appropriate external or internal resources as appropriate including providing the internal resource personally where necessary.

Graduate calibre candidates will have experience working within the training team with a legal or professional services environment.

Skills:
* Excellent interpersonal communication skills
* Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
* Passionate interest in training and development
* Ability to manage a budget
* Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of training

Ability:
* Proactive
* Robust and confident personality
* Ability to interact with people at all levels
* Good team player
* Client orientated approach
* Self motivated
* Enthusiastic and energetic
* Willingness to get involved in all issues related to training
* Ability to deliver training courses in a confident, enthusiastic and engaging way.