Client: Location: Salary: L & D MANAGER (LEGAL SKILLS) (FULL OR PART-TIME) t – London
The Learning & Development team currently comprises 12 people. The team is integral to supporting the HR strategy of attracting, developing and retaining our employees through innovative people development initiatives and legal skills training. This role will provide a full L&D service to the firm’s lawyers, focusing on legal skills, and on lawyers in the firm’s Litigation and Arbitration Division, PSLs, newly promoted equity partners and associates.
Key responsibilities
- Client relationship management of the Division with particular focus on its lawyers
- Delivery of litigation-based legal skills sessions, for example Higher Rights including Ethics, Procedure and Evidence
- Working with the Division’s management team including Global Head of Practice, Education and other Partners, PSLs and HRMs
- Working closely with the Division’s Training PSL in relation to the strategic development plans including liaison re legal technical training
- Ongoing development to the firm’s litigation lawyers based in the Belfast office
- Occasional travel to non-London offices within the network to deliver litigation-based training
- Working alongside Head of Learning and Development to advise on litigation-based development issues
General profile-raising of Learning and Development’s offering within the Division
New Equity Partners
- Working with the Head of Learning and Development on the design, delivery and development of a new equity partner development programme
PSLs
- Overall management of the development programmes for the PSL community, including liaison with Head of Learning and Development and Director of Knowledge Management
Design and some delivery of training sessions, including Away Days
Legal Skills Training
- Design and delivery of legal training courses to lawyers to include advocacy, negotiations, presentation skills, training, client care, compliance
- Ongoing management of the firm’s training accreditation scheme
- Monitoring the train the trainer programme
- Liaising with, and influencing, regulators such as the SRA in their policy decisions affecting the firm’s training and educations where appropriate
Working closely with other members of the Learning and Development team and others to ensure that legal skills training programmes enhance and complement other development initiatives
Other
- Management of one Learning and Development Advisor
- Ongoing contribution to the management of the Learning and Development team
- Active contribution to, and leadership within, the Learning and Development team generally
- Design and delivery of bespoke training programmes
- Delivery of standard courses for managers (conducting a performance review, supervisory essentials, coaching for results, internal consultancy)
- Management of BS, LPA and trainee development team
- Conducting training needs analysis across client groups and implementing appropriate development interventions
- Discussing individual and team development, working with management to create development plans
- Review and evaluate development interventions regularly
- Supplier management (sourcing, selecting, reviewing, negotiating costs)
- Act as an internal coach to clients
- Responsibility for developing the coaching strategy for the business
Budget responsibility
Work based competencies
- Ideally we expect candidates to have in the region of 4 years’ legal experience, most ideally in the commercial contentious arena, but will consider candidates who can demonstrate that they have the necessary competencies outlined in this job description
- Ideally, we would look for candidates with at least one year’s learning and development experience, familiarity with concepts, techniques and challenges
Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- Legal qualification and practice
Qualified to use psychometric tools
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Expires: 21/06/2011
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