Learning Design Specialist

**Learning Design Specialist**:

- Enhance and enable the delivery of NFU Mutual’s future Agency learning strategy.
- Create impactful learning experiences that drive business success and personal development.
- Remote and hybrid working options available - we’re open to discussion You can be based anywhere in the UK

**About the role**:

- Are you ready to revolutionise the way we learn and grow at NFU Mutual? We are assembling a team of experienced Learning Design Specialists to support us with a dynamic, fast-paced, and agile project lasting up to 12 months. You'll be joining a team that has already made significant strides in this project and you'll be in great company, working alongside some of the best in the field._

As the Learning Design Specialist, you’ll work in partnership with HR colleagues and business experts to design, develop, implement, and evaluate innovative and commercially effective learning solutions. Your efforts will enhance the skills and knowledge of personnel, enabling the delivery of NFU Mutual’s Agency strategy both now and in the future.

Embracing continuous improvement, you’ll regularly review learning solutions to ensure they remain market-leading and accessible to all personnel, including those with neurodiverse needs.

**About you**:
You’re proficient in implementing instructional design principles to create effective learning pathways and experiences using design thinking as an approach. Your expertise in designing learning experiences that prioritise the needs and preferences of learners is essential for this role.

You have a proven ability to build strong, influential, and collaborative relationships with both internal and external stakeholders, including senior-level executives, and are comfortable presenting to people at all levels.

Your experience in the design, development, delivery, and evaluation of modern learning solutions and content is crucial. This includes online/e-learning modules, instructor-led materials, job aids, face-to-face and live online experiential delivery and ideally, multimedia products such as video, graphic design, and audio training materials.

To join our team, you must also have:

- Excellent verbal communication skills that allow for relationship building and facilitation of learning interventions
- Excellent and effective collaboration skills.
- Knowledge of emerging technology trends for content creation, including web-based learning platforms, social learning, gamification, virtual reality, and augmented reality.
- A knowledge of Insurance is desirable.

**You must have a notice period of no more than one month to be considered.**
- At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.-
**Benefits and Rewards**:
When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

- Salary £40,000 - £45,000 depending on experience
- Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
- Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
- A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
- Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
- Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
- Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
- Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
- Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
- Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
- Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.

**Working at NFU Mutual**:
We’re one of the UK’s leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we’ve put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being “a great place to work” and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024.

We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

**Manchester**:
We have over 300 local Agency offices across the U