L&D Executive, L&D team

About BII

British International Investment is the UK’s development finance institution, owned by the UK Government. With a mission to solve the biggest global development challenges, we aim to create a virtuous circle of investment and impact. Your contribution will be essential. 

It won’t be easy: we do the hardest work in the most complex markets. Be prepared to test your skills, get creative and say your piece as you take on high-profile work as part of a diverse team of exceptionally smart, passionate people. 

In return, you can take your career to all-new places in a culture that rewards curiosity and collaboration, and balances high performance with wellbeing.

BII at a glance

75 years supporting sustainable business growth in developing and emerging markets

£8.1 billion in net assets

1,400+ businesses invested in

950,000 workers in the businesses we support

£9 billion in new investments planned in the next 5 years

600+ people in our diverse global team

3 key development objectives: Productive | Sustainable | Inclusive

Team and role overview

The L&D team forms part of the broader HR business partnering and HR operations functions. The team has 3 current members, one L&D manager, one L&D specialist and an L&D administrator.

Purpose

The L&D executive reports to the L&D manager and will be responsible for overseeing all day-to-day learning & development operations as well as leading a range of strategic L&D projects and programmes in accordance with the L&D strategy and annual L&D plan.

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of this role include:

• Leading a range of L&D projects and programmes, including detailed design, implementation planning and business stakeholder engagement activities.
• Facilitating ad hoc of stakeholder meetings (may include specific offsite agenda items) based on the needs of specific projects, programmes or live demand from the business.
• Overseeing day to day delivery of L&D activities, including line management of L&D administrator.
• Providing oversight across all L&D policies and processes, ensuring they are implemented appropriately.
• Implementing and embedding a digital learning solution for BII.
• Acting as mandatory training content lead for the HR function (e.g. Safeguarding training, Inclusion Essentials modules), in close partnership with relevant parts of the HR team. Supports business areas / content owners to regularly refresh and update mandatory training modules as needed.
• Managing L&D demand management process from request through to deployment. This means leading on requirements-gathering and responding to business requests with the appropriate level of challenge and insight, providing clear recommendations, and working closely with HRBPs to ensure solutions are agreed in the right way. This includes requests for external coaching.
• Managing and tracking L&D budget on a quarterly basis, providing ad hoc updates as needed to senior HR stakeholders
• Responsible for the onboarding of new L&D suppliers incl contract management activities
• Supporting BII-wide programmes with relevant L&D interventions/solutions including PEDP, Career Value Proposition and the talent agenda.
• Owning L&D Sydney pages and continually improves content in line with wider L&D strategy e.g. Career Hub, Training Hub etc.
• Supporting the implementation of a Learning Management System.
• Acting as subject matter expert and design lead for early careers programmes, including graduates

The candidate

Background, skills, aptitude

The candidate must have a background in L&D, ideally within financial services.

• The successful candidates will have significant proven experience executing L&D projects and programmes.
• Candidates should be strongly motivated by BII’s development mission and ideally demonstrate some commitment to development or social goals through previous executive or non-executive activity.

 Essential skills:

• Strong communication skills
• Project management skills
• Proven track record of delivery
• Experience of working with senior level stakeholders
• Advanced problem-solving skills

Desirable skills:

• Workshop facilitation
• L&D product design
• Exposure to digital learning solution

Candidates should be strongly motivated by BII’s development mission and ideally demonstrate some commitment to development or social goals through previous executive or non-executive activity.

Our cultural values

We look for team members who aspire, as we do, to work at our best and to be:

• Impact-led, commercially rigorous
• Tenacious in the face of challenges
• Collaborative and caring

British International Investment is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background. 

Please provide a cover letter with your application

Salary: Competitive