Job Details

People are centre stage of everything we do at Royal Ballet Opera, and our Human Resources department work across the organisation, ensuring that in every department we have the right people in place who are supported to deliver their work to their fullest capacity.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Learning and Development professional to join the Royal Ballet Opera and feed into a culture of continuous improvement and learning. This role will lead on the Learning and Development strategy for the organisation, covering the delivery of mandatory training but also evolving our offering for staff, driving our Leadership Development Programme forwards and helping to facilitate and mediate broader conversations about dynamics, coaching and upskilling the workforce.

• Support the delivery of the Royal Ballet Opera Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and policies by placing diversity considerations at the heart of all learning and development activity.
• Lead on the identification of organisational, departmental and individual training and development needs, and design and manage a programme of activities to meet these in line with the available resources.
• Work with the Senior Human Resource Management Team to develop training for managers and staff in support of the full range of policies and procedures.
• Liaise with the Director of Operations and the Health and Safety team to deliver training solutions in response to identified health and safety training needs.
• Manage the design and delivery of induction activities.

For the full job description, including the keys areas of responsibilities and accountabilities, please click the 'apply now' button.

We are a Disability Confident Employer, which means that we are actively working to ensure that candidates with disabilities and long term health conditions feel supported, engaged and able to fulfil their potential in the workplace. We will endeavour to offer an interview to candidates who tell us they wish to participate in the scheme and who demonstrate in their application that they meet the essential criteria for the role, though sometimes due to the volume of qualified candidates with declarations this is not possible. If you have any access requirements for your application, please contact our Recruitment Team on: hr.recruitment@roh.org.uk.

To be successful in this role, you will have a strong training network, be well versed in handling difficult conversations and able to juggle a busy roster of programme delivery (supported by the Learning and Development Coordinator) whilst looking for ways to respond to organisational priorities. 

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Significant experience of managing a learning and development function, with Associate Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) membership or equivalent level of practical experience.
• Demonstrable commitment to proactively promoting diversity and inclusion through learning and development.
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively with a wide range of people within and outside the organisation.
• Strong numeracy with experience of analysing and reporting on complex data. 
• Flexibility in dealing with changing priorities and the ability to pivot.
• Experience of coaching and facilitation is not essential but will be highly regarded so please do reference this in your application if applicable.

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Disclaimer: We will be interviewing for this role as suitable applications are received and may close this role before the closing date upon a successful candidate being appointed.