Professional Development Manager

4 hours ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Kennedys Full time
About Kennedys

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,500 people worldwide across 45 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America, we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field.

Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services for many industry sectors, but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

What We Offer

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you'll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

We strive to celebrate, empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We've created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work.

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Learning and Development team as a Professional Development Manager. As a key member of the team, you will support the delivery of talent development and learning projects within the team, working collaboratively with the L&D Business Partners and other stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will have experience of supporting the delivery of global talent projects, operating in a fast-paced commercial environment within a global organisation and demonstrable organisational and planning skills.

You will be responsible for providing operational support to projects, including creating and updating project and communications plans, providing logistics and planning support and completing tasks to support the delivery of key projects.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support the delivery of talent development and learning projects within the team, working collaboratively with the L&D Business Partners and other stakeholders.
  • Provide operational support to projects, including creating and updating project and communications plans, providing logistics and planning support and completing tasks to support the delivery of key projects.
  • Maintain, update and promote our Learning Experience platform, ensuring content remains dynamic and relevant to emerging business needs and the platform provides a strong user experience driving increased engagement.
  • Lead on the communication and marketing plan for learning and maintain and update communication channels, with the support of our internal communications team and L&D Business Partners.
  • Promote learning initiatives, programmes, career pathways and stories to increase awareness of career development opportunities at the firm and support the development of a learning culture.
Required Experience
  • Experience of supporting the delivery of global talent projects.
  • Experience of operating in a fast-paced, commercial environment within a global organisation.
  • Demonstrable organisational and planning skills.
  • Experience of working with modern learning platforms and technologies.
  • Collaborative and a strong team player.
  • Strong technology skills – learning platforms, excel, word, PowerPoint.
  • Strong and persuasive writer with a flair for writing engaging and promotional communications.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to quickly build relationships and demonstrate credibility in a professional environment.
  • Ability to work at speed and balance a wide range of activities at any one time and at short notice.
  • Ability to manage own workload and work autonomously.
  • Strong attention to detail and ability to work under high pressure.

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