Learning & Development Consultant (Future Skills Advisor)

Learning & Development Consultant (Future Skills Advisor)

Liverpool 

£40,000 - £45,000 pa depending on skills + excellent benefits

Ref:MTC has exciting opportunities for one Learning and Development Consultant within our Future Skills team. This will be based at their state of the art facilities in Liverpool Science Park.

Reporting to the Future Skills Manager, you will liaise with multiple stakeholders to research regional skill gaps and identify new or evolving roles of strategic importance in the high value manufacturing sector. Confident and approachable, you will work closely with industry partners, manufacturers and colleagues to drive collaboration and approval. With extensive L&D experience, you will be accustomed to defining and creating education and training programmes to develop the future workforce. You’ll develop engineering competency frameworks and report future requirements, ensuring that we continue to enhance our training programmes to meet the needs of the industry. Activities will include: 

• Liaising with key industry partners, such as awarding bodies to drive collaboration and approval.
• Liaising with major high value manufacturers and MTC members, to drive collaboration and approval
• Facilitating skills workshops with all the stakeholders and MTC research engineers
• Articulating the output of workshops into competency frameworks that clearly define the current and future requirements of roles within the industry
• Project Management of the assigned framework projects

You’ll be comfortable communicating to groups and individuals. With a proven background within learning and development, you will have gained experience in competency framework and instructional design and will be able to complete your findings in detailed reports and create business plans to ensure growth and improvements within their policies and processes.

The Ideal candidate

• Planned and organised in your approach to managing projects to meet and exceed business needs
• Experienced in designing L&D solutions in digital ways alongside face to face
• An experienced and engaging facilitator with large and small groups of delegates
• Commercial and business savvy
• Able to balance customer focused thinking with practical and effective solutions
• Collaborative, and engaging and able to influence others, including Business stakeholders  
• Confident in sharing and owning feedback across the team and with delegates where relevant
• Self-starting, with a high level of resilience and attention to detail
• Able to problem solve to drive results
• Self-aware - knowing own areas of strength and development 

Our benefits package includes a competitive base salary as well as 25 days annual leave + public holidays. In addition, there is an Employee Assistance Programme, ability to buy and sell holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee discounts and a fantastic pension scheme. If your role is in an area that is taking part in the fully flexible working week trial, your working week will be from Monday to Thursday and your annual leave entitlement will be adjusted to 20 days per annum.

This job is a brilliant opportunity to join a close-knit team who are incredibly passionate in what they do working in the emerging technologies and future skills arena. If you’re looking to come into a new role and make a real impact, then this will be perfect for you.