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 requirements.
The Role
This role serves as a business partner to the MEA region as part of the firm’s global centre of excellence for learning and talent. This role will partner with regional HR business partners and 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
- Support the design of engaging and impactful learning solutions (digital and in-person) for diverse audiences, partnering with internal and external subject matter experts where required and ensuring global content is leveraged first.
- Collaborate with the Global Early Careers Programme Lead to support development of our Early Careers population, supporting the facilitation in particular of the second phase of the hybrid KSA Trainee Programme in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring that mandatory requirements are tracked and reported.
- Engage stakeholders to understand team and individual skills gaps, translating these into appropriate development solutions.
- Oversee the planning and scheduling of the regional learning calendar and talent programme nominations process.
- 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.
- Ensure the learning administration support receive clear instructions and that they are entering data in the Learning Management System (My Development) correctly, ensuring accuracy in enrolments, completions, feedback and reporting.
- Oversee budget and spend tracking in line with global L&T processes, ensuring good financial hygiene by ensuring all expenses are submitted within 28 days and all invoices are processed within 14 days of being received.
- Analyse data and produce insightful metrics and reports to inform decision-making and demonstrate learning impact, providing regular dashboard reports to regional and global leadership as required.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of systems and processes and the sharing of best practices within the global Learning and Talent team.
- Actively expand knowledge across a broad range of learning topics and formats.
- Develop and implement engaging marketing strategies to promote the global learning and development portfolio to colleagues across the region.
- Maintain the firm’s external coaching offering and internal mentoring capability.
Essential Skills & Attributes
- Experienced learning and development professional, accustomed to working in environments undergoing significant transformation and modernization.
- Comfortable working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project management skills, attention to detail and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.
- Excellent interpersonal skills. Communicates clearly and in a timely manner with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels of the business whilst managing expectations appropriately.
- Proven experience in learning design and delivery, with the desire for further development in experiential learning design and facilitation.
- Strategically minded, confident in problem solving, able to work with minimal supervision, knowing when to escalate issues to leadership.
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 500 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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If you are submitting a candidate as a Recruitment Agency Partner, it is an essential requirement and your responsibility to ensure that candidates applying to Clyde & Co are aware of this privacy notice.
عندما تعمل في كلايد آند كو، فأنت تنضم إلى فريق يضم 500 شريكًا قانونيًا، 2,400 محاميًا، 3,200 أخصائي قانوني، و5,500 شخص في ما يقرب من 70 من مكاتبها ومكاتبَ تابعةٍ لها حول العالم.
قيمنا هي المبادئ التي توجّه القرارات التي نتخذها، وتوحدنا في جهودنا، وتعزز مجهوداتنا، سواء لنا أو لعملائنا وشركائنا.
نحن ملتزمون بالعمل من منطلق المسؤولية وذلك من خلال التقدم نحو قوى عمل متنوعة وشاملة الذين يعكسان المجتمعات والعملاء الذين يخدموننا ونخدمهم. كلايد آند كو يلتزم بتوفير بيئة تمكن للجميع بتحقيق إمكاناتهم فيها وباستخدام مهاراتهم القانونية والمهنية لدعم مجتمعاتهم وبيئاتهم. ونفعل ذلك من خلال العمل الخيري والتطوعي ومن خلال الشركات الخيرية التي نتعاقد معها، ومن خلال تقليل تأثير التلوث البيئي، بما في ذلك التزامنا بمعيار SBTi Net-Zero ووضع أهداف طموحة للحد من انبعاثات التلوث في البيئة.
كلايد آند كو يقدم مجموعة من الفوائد والدعم المصممة خصيصا لمنسوبيها، بما في ذلك الرعاية الصحية، وتخطيط التقاعد، ومبادرات تدعم الرفاهية.
نحن نفخر بأن نكون منشأة تعمل لطرح فرص متكافئة للجميع ونشجع قيمنا الأساسية على دعم العدالة، والاحتفال بتنوع واختلافات أفرادنا. ولذلك فإننا نمنع جميع أشكال التمييز في مكان العمل لإعطاء فرص عادلة للجميع بالتفوق والازدهار. لذا، نحن نرحب ونشجع جميع طلبات التقديم الوظيفي من الأفراد المؤهلين القديرين، بغض النظر عن اختلاف هوياتهم.
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