Staff Development Consultant (Learning & Events)

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The opportunity

UAL is looking for a Staff Development Consultant to join the diverse and talented People Strategy hub team within HR. This is an exciting time to be joining UAL; we have a new University Strategy, and the new People Strategy will be launched imminently. Anti-racism, Inclusion, Social Purpose are core UAL priorities and the Staff Development team will be focused on these areas to support staff and students to reach their full potential. 

The role will work on full learning cycle of activities including designing, curating, procuring, developing, delivering and evaluating development programmes including induction, personal effectiveness, digital and management and leadership development, working with subject matter experts in the EDI and digital teams as appropriate, to provide a range of activities in various formats and available on different digital platforms. This includes blended programmes, eLearning, in person and virtual group sessions and briefings. 

About you

You will have extensive staff development experience covering the full training cycle, with internal consultancy and coaching skills, preferably gained in large complex organisations. Your experience will range from delivering core programming to managing large-scale roll out programmes. You will also use your facilitation skills to deliver induction programmes, personal effectiveness programmes and work with external providers to keep our management development and digital offering relevant and up to date. 

In practice, you should have experience of: 

• Identifying learning needs and developing programmes aligned to strategy
• Designing, curating, and facilitating training and events 
• Project managing and delivering large scale rollout learning projects
• Building relationships and trust in large complex organisations
• Collaborating with colleagues with the SD, OD teams, EDI and the wider HR team
• Charing or advising Staff Development groups representing different sections of an organisation.

If you have any queries about this role or need any reasonable adjustments for your application, please contact Zele Akhilele, Resourcing Adviser via email at Peoplestaffrecruitment@arts.ac.uk.

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) offers an extensive range of courses in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. We are a collegiate University spread across London with six Colleges, four Institutes and five Research Centres. UAL also has two subsidiary companies, delivering specialist activities – UAL Short Courses Ltd, and UAL Arts Temps Ltd.

We’re made up of all types of people, coming together in London, the world’s creative capital. We are designers, artists, performers, thinkers, researchers and makers. Our students, staff and graduates form a global network of creatives, entrepreneurs and leaders. Together, our ideas change the world. Because the world needs creativity.

We are ranked highly across the board. We are ranked first for specialist art and design, second in the world for Art and Design in the 2023 QS World University Rankings (for the fifth year in a row), ranked fifth in sustainability and two of our colleges were rated in the top three fashion schools in the world.

Our culture

We have become one of the world’s most international Universities, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. And, as a global university, staff and students learn from different cultures and perspectives, which leads to new conversations and innovative work. At our very core, everything we do seeks to challenge the status quo by driving social purpose and standing up for what matters.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds including those who may feel underrepresented in the workforce due to their socioeconomic circumstances such as those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (B.A.M.E.) backgrounds. We aim to be a university where everyone can be themselves and are supported to reach their full potential.

With our commitment to inclusion and diversity, we are proud to be a Race Equality Charter (REC) member to help us reduce barriers that negatively impacts B.A.M.E. staff, a Stonewall Diversity Champion to ensure all LGBTQ+ people are valued at work, a Disability Confident Scheme Committed employer and member of the Business Disability Forum which help us to improve the lives of disabled people in the workplace.

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