Firm Development Specialist

We're looking for a passionate and proactive individual to join our team in supporting the Programme Directors with the design and delivery of Openwork Business School (OBS) management and professional development programmes across the Openwork Partnership. In this role, you'll play a key part in shaping the learning journey of financial advice professionals, contributing to our vision of being recognised as a leader in developing a qualified and capable advice community throughout the UK.

The benefits:

• Salary - up to £55,000
• Bonus scheme - on target bonus - 10%
• Pension scheme - contribute up to 5% of your salary and Openwork will match you and put in an extra 5%
• Critical illness cover
• Income protection - 1x salary
• Death in service - 4x salary
• 27 days holiday + bank holidays, with the opportunity to buy up to an additional 10 days
• A range of other flexible benefits to include private medical insurance, dental insurance and much more.

Key Accountabilities

• Support the development of training programmes (including digitisation) to meet Partnership objectives
• Support the annual training and development needs assessment in conjunction with Learning and Development (L&D) Business Partner (BP).
• Deliver effective training materials utilising a variety of media.
• Train Firm Principals and their people in professional and management skills
• Train managers, supervisors and colleagues in professional and management skills
• Organise and facilitate employee development and training events.
• Develop and maintain organizational communications such as intranet bulletin boards and newsletters to ensure employees have knowledge of training and development events and resources.
• Conducts follow-up studies of all completed training to evaluate and measure results.
• Identify and support the modification of programmes as needed.
• Exemplify the desired culture and philosophies of the organization.
• Work effectively as a team member with other members of the OBS
• Contribute to the development in approaches to learning and development within the OBS including supporting the development of an internal accreditation programme

• Degree level education or equivalent experience in a training or L&D role
• Financial Services experience essential
• Membership of a relevant Professional Body
• In-depth understanding of learning and development within a Professional Services environment
• Experience of working in a partnership-type environment and the challenges in delivering to a network comprising Partnerships and Head Office, an advantage
• Knowledge of implementing apprenticeship schemes an advantage with a creative mindset to explore alternative methods to maximise resources and impact
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong presentation skills
• Adept with a variety of multimedia training platforms and methods
• Ability to evaluate and research training options and alternatives
• Ability to design and implement effective training and development interventions
• Ability to evaluate the effectiveness of learning and training interventions and effect improvement where appropriate

We're a dynamic, fast paced, and growing business with huge ambition. This is all made possible by the brilliant people who are part of The Openwork Partnership family. We're investing heavily in our colleagues, continuously striving to give them the platform to develop personally and professionally and reach their full potential.

We're also very proud of our culture, as one of the Best 100 Large Companies to work for in 2022. The Openwork Partnership values, and respects individuality and we are committed to building an inclusive culture and environment which truly recognises and celebrates our colleague's individual differences and identities – just like our financial advice, for us, it's personal. We believe everyone can make a difference and your race, religion, disability, and gender will never be a barrier. At Openwork, we have a strong ethic of care for each other where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will bring your best self to work if you are trusted to choose when, where and how you do it.

On top of offering a modern workplace with bags of development opportunities, we also offer a highly attractive benefits package to reward you for your hard work. This includes a competitive base salary, an industry-leading annual bonus, enhanced pension, critical illness cover, income protection and a range of other flexible benefits.