Company Overview: BARBRI is the recognised global leader in legal ed-tech. BARBRI provides a suite of technology-driven products and solutions serving students, professionals, law schools and law firms throughout the legal lifecycle, empowering every step of the legal education journey.
Job Summary:
As the Director of Learning, you will be responsible for managing existing and developing new BARBRI programmes. This will include continuous review and enhancement of existing courses and scoping and developing new courses to provide an innovative and superior suite of learning programmes for students and clients. The Director of Learning will be a key member of the Learning Team and will establish a very close working relationship with senior members of the Learning Team to ensure BARBRI’s existing and new programmes are highly interactive, suitable for the intended audience and produce outstanding student results. The Director of Learning will also work closely with the UK Operations Team and the US Learning and IT Development Teams to ensure programmes are delivered in an efficient manner and are underpinned by sound pedagogy and technology.
You will be part of a talented Learning Team and will maintain BARBRI’s relationships with external agents and partners. You will have a background in monitoring and developing legal training courses and experience of delivering teaching, coaching and support to international students and their employers.
Priorities for the business
- Driving Execution – Translates strategic priorities into operational reality; Aligns communication, accountabilities, resource capabilities, internal processes, and ongoing measurement systems to ensure that strategic priorities yield measurable and sustainable results.
- Building Partnerships - Identifies opportunities and takes action to build strategic relationships between one's area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organisations to help achieve business goals.
- Leading Change - Identifies and drives organisational and cultural changes needed to adapt strategically to changing market demands, technology, and internal initiatives; Effects new approaches to improve results by transforming processes, products and services.
- Building Organisational Talent - Establishes systems and processes to attract, develop, engage, and retain talented individuals; creates a work environment where people can realise their full potential, thus allowing the organisation to meet current and future business challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
New Programme Development
- Part of the Learning development team responsible for the development and launch of new Higher Education and licensure products; with a particular focus upon pedagogy, course structure and content, quality assurance, managing delivery output and deadlines.
- Working cross functionally with US and UK Operations, Learning and IT Development Teams, Tutors and SMEs to ensure new courses are delivered efficiently, to deadlines and are of a superior quality.
- Undertake research into new product options.
- Creating and providing legal and academic insight into new course strategies or existing course structures or amendments.
- Training Learning Team staff and wider staff in new products or product updates.
Existing Programme Management (SQE & Supplemental Products)
- Responsibility for existing programme updates and implementing ongoing product development to ensure courses provide an exceptional learning experience.
- Ensure all courses reflect current SRA/regulatory requirements and maintain accreditation where required.
- Overall responsibility for, and participation in, the quality assurance of course delivery and any associated actions.
- Overseeing the updating of existing course content in alignment with Legal Editor.
- Subject matter expert for annual course updates or new content in designated subject areas.
- Assisting with course delivery as required (student meetings, workshops, strategy sessions, knowledge desk, PFAs, Mocks).
- Creating Personal Study Plan (PSP) course build documents.
- Working with the course build and project management teams to release PSPs.
- Working collaboratively with the Operations Team to ensure effective scheduling and delivery of existing courses.
- Review of student and client feedback and associated actions.
- Dealing with student or staff complaints.
Line Management
- Line management and QA of designated Learning Team staff.
- Training new team members.
- Recruitment of internal and external faculty staff.
External Stakeholder Engagement
- SQE1 & SQE2 Train the Trainer delivery for licensing partners.
- Assisting with marketing and BD meetings, events and collateral.
- Participating in sales activities e.g. speaking at conferences, assisting with proposal writing etc.
- Assisting the BD and University Partnership teams with tenders, pitches and partner monitoring meetings.
- Assisting the sales team with product-specific enquiries and providing product updates.
- Attending SRA update meetings and staying abreast of SRA and sector updates.
- Ensuring compliance with OFS requirements in relation to the quality of teaching and awards.
Other
- Assisting the Head of Learning in setting and delivering on, team and company goals.
- Attendance at Academic Board.
- Attendance at Exam Boards and Extenuating Circumstances Panel as required.
- Safeguarding officer.
- Assist in the review of company policies.
- OFS compliance activities.
- Member of the Management Team.
Generally
As a member of the global team, you will
- Act as a role model and ambassador for the Company to enhance BARBRI’s brand awareness and perception.
- carry out a wide range of activities to ensure the success of the BARBRI global business;
- attend and contribute to team meetings; and
- track and report projects to your line manager.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
- UK Lawyer (Solicitor or Barrister) or US Attorney-at-law
- Teaching and learning experience in the legal professional higher education market (preferably a Fellow of Advance HE or have a PGCE in higher education).
- Experience in course design and review, particularly in the development of online learning programmes.
Skills and Key Competencies:
- Demonstrates deep interest in trends in legal education, learning science and educational technology.
- Understanding of the needs of an undergraduate, postgraduate and professional legal audience.
- Experience coordinating/managing multiple, concurrent projects, with ability to manage expectations effectively when handling priorities with competing deadlines.
- Proven ability to work in a geographically distributed virtual team environment and build relationships with internal and external organisations.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to communicate appropriately with students to ensure they achieve the desired outcomes.
- Ability to communicate at a professional level with internal staff and external stakeholders.
- Ability to line manage a small team and effectively manage outsourced agencies.
- Ability to develop strong and effective working relationships and work effectively across cross functional teams.
- Seasoned, flexible and energetic team player with a growth mindset and bias for action.
- Planning/organising—prioritises and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans.
- Adaptability—adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and effectively deals with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
- Ability to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner and gather and analyse information skillfully.
- Knowledge of e-learning, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software and ability to effectively use the Internet and Email, as well as CRM and LMS systems used by the company (following a period of training). Interest in emerging learning technologies.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as percentages etc. and be confident working with and analysing data sets.
Travel Requirements: Some business travel may be required
Benefits:
- 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
- Pension contributions
- Private Health Insurance
- Life Assurance
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season Ticket Loan
- Optical care benefits
- Mobile phone expense reimbursement
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions and perform any other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
We are an equal-opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments during the application process.
