Senior Learning & Talent Advisor

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Title: Senior Learning and Talent Advisor

Department: Learning and Talent (HR)

Location: Dubai (minimum 3 days in the office) with frequent travel requirements (circa 20%) to offices across MEA region, in particular to Jeddah and Riyadh.

Scope: Middle East and Africa Region

Reports to: Head of Learning and Development

The Team

The Global Learning & Talent team serves over 5,000 people from over 60 offices across both fee earner and business services teams and provides specialist advice and learning solutions across a broad remit including: professional core skills training, continuing legal education, talent development programs, talent planning, coaching, career development initiatives and practice area or business specific L&D.

This role supporting the MEA region and being part of a global team, requires deep expertise across learning and talent development, including managing curriculum-based programmes, driving operational excellence and influencing stakeholders at all levels.

The Role

This role serves as a business partner to the MEA region, and reports into the Head of Learning and Development in the UK as part of the firm's global centre of excellence for learning and talent.

Working alongside another Senior Learning Advisor, this role will partner with regional HR business partners and senior stakeholders in the business to drive higher performance and growth in the MEA region, whilst also supporting the team's global strategy and priorities, equipping key stakeholder groups with essential professional development and behavioural skills, enabling successful career progression across the employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement engaging marketing strategies to promote the global learning and development portfolio to colleagues across the region.
• Review existing talent mapping initiatives, analysing data to identify gaps and opportunities for development, proposing talent development strategies in collaboration with HR Business Partners in the region whilst promoting future global talent initiatives to embed standardised global processes.
• Design and deliver engaging and impactful learning solutions for diverse audiences, partnering with external suppliers where required and ensuring content is leveraged globally first.
• Ensure that learning administration support delivered from the central service centre (UK based) is of a high quality and in compliance with regional and regulatory requirements.
• Support the delivery of the second phase of the hybrid KSA Trainee Programme in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring that mandatory requirements are tracked and reported. Collaborate with Early Careers Programme Lead to align with future global curriculums
• Collaborate with the global learning and talent team to implement a Global Legal Director learning curriculum that is aligned to the refreshed global competency framework with a particular focus on enhancing business development expertise and leadership capability.
• Provide project management and support to the Global Learning and Talent strategic priority projects, particularly in relation to blended learning delivery with digital learning resources and on-line engagement.
• Maintain the firm's external coaching offering and internal mentoring capability.
• Monitor regional L&D costs in accordance with budget as required. Bring forward to the Learning & Talent Management Team any cost saving opportunities and/or options for learning delivery that are scalable and will benefit other regions
• Provide regular dashboard reports to regional and global leadership to demonstrate the breadth of the learning and development portfolio in the region providing transparency on engagement and impact.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experienced learning and development professional with experience of working in professional services environments (preferably global).
• Demonstrated skills in facilitating and designing learning curriculums using the most up to date methodologies and technologies, tailoring to specific audiences.
• Proven track record in partnering with external suppliers to source high quality learning solutions and managing these relationships.
• Prior experience of working with regional and global cross-functional teams in complex environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.
• Confident in problem solving and knowing when to escalate issues to leadership.
• Able to communicate with brevity and in a timely manner, whilst managing expectations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels of the business.
• Strategically minded with strong attention to detail.
• A self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project management skills and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.
• Accreditation with psychometric tools is desirable, e.g. Discovery Insights, Hogan.

The Firm

Clyde & Co is a leading global law firm, specialising in the sectors that underpin global trade and commercial activity, namely: insurance, transport, construction, energy, trade and commodities. It is globally integrated, offering a comprehensive range of contentious and non-contentious legal services and commercially-minded legal advice to businesses operating across the world. Clyde & Co is committed to operating in a responsible way. This means progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the diversity of its communities and clients, using its legal skills to support its communities through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment. The firm has 480 partners, 2400 lawyers, 3200 legal professionals and 5000 people overall in over 60 offices and associated offices worldwide.

Our Values

Our Values Are The Principles That Guide The Decisions We Make, Unite Us In Our Endeavours And Strengthen Our Delivery, For Our Clients And Our Firm. We

• Work as one. We are a globally connected team of talented people who act with a firm-first mentality to achieve success
• Excel with clients. We aim high and challenge ourselves to deliver unique excellence for our clients, keeping them at the centre of everything we do
• Celebrate difference. We help each other to be at our best and believe our differences result in greater achievement
• Act boldly. We seek new opportunities, take action and learn as we go, recognising that curiosity drives our development and contributes to growth

Business Services Competencies

Clyde & Co is committed to providing extensive, personal and professional development opportunities for our people enabling them to be highly effective in their current role as well as assisting them to fulfil their career aspirations.

The Competencies Are Used To Inform All Aspects Of Business Services Career Development. They Vary Across Levels And Different Business Areas And Fall Under The Following Areas

• Technical Excellence
• People and Team
• Client/Stakeholder Relationships
• Service Delivery and Commercial Awareness
• Personal Effectiveness

This is the job description as constituted at present; however the Firm reserves the right to reasonably amend it in accordance with the changing needs of the business.

When you work at Clyde & Co, you join a team of 490 partners, 2,400 lawyers, 3,200 legal professionals and 5,500 people in nearly 70 offices and associated offices worldwide. Our values are the principles that guide the decisions we make, unite us in our endeavours and strengthen our delivery, for both our clients and our firm. We work as one, excel with clients, celebrate difference and act boldly. We are committed to operating in a responsible way by progressing towards a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects the communities and clients it serves. We are devoted to providing an environment in which everyone can realise their potential, using its legal and professional skills to support its communities. We do this through pro bono work, volunteering and charitable partnerships, and minimising the impact it has on the environment, including through our commitment to the SBTi Net-Zero standard and the setting of ambitious emissions reduction targets.

We offer a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning and wellbeing initiatives.

Clyde & Co is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Our core values encourage us to support fairness, celebrate diversity and prohibit all forms of discrimination in the workplace to allow everyone to excel at work. Therefore, we welcome and encourage all applications from suitably qualified individuals, regardless of background or identity.

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