What you’ll be doing
as a Learning Designer
Learning design
1. Be an independent, creative thinker grounded in real world delivery with credible experience of what best in class learning experiences look like for today’s workplace.
2. Write high quality scripts and develop storyboards for the production of digital learning. This could include video, animation or e-learning formats.
3. Act as an authority for learning design, ensuring learning is creative, engaging and effective for all learning styles.
4. Consider ROI of all training interventions and challenge the need for formal training vs alternative methods.
5. Support the transformation of learning to a 70/20/10 model.
6. Ensure all learning solutions delivered have clear learning objectives (using Blooms Taxonomy) and business outcomes.
7. Use a range of technologies and solutions to develop a learning lead culture of self-development and continuous learning and development.
8. Have a strong interest in learning technologies, innovative learning approaches and modern training techniques.
Stakeholder management and engagement
9. Work collaboratively as part of a sprint team, together with Learning Consultants and subject matter experts to develop and deliver appropriate learning solutions to meet project needs.
10. Work with other designers and across the learning teams to contribute towards design and learning experience consistency across Thames Water.
11. Have good communication skills to manage the relationship with the project owner and be able to share your solution and ideas clearly.
12. Ensure that company policy, goals and objectives are being adhered to and represented within design of learning.
3RD Party relationship
13. Work with subject matter experts to gather and refine the raw content information.
14. Manage relationships with external advisors and providers in an efficient and effective way.
15. Engage across Thames Water to obtain buy in and commitment for the learning solution.
Hybrid – Reading / Swindon
36 hours a week
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
16. Experience in digital content production, able to storyboard, design and develop engaging training
17. Proven track record and portfolio of training design using tools including Articulate Storyline 360 and Creative Cloud
18. Solution and outcome driven with a strong business perspective
19. Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
20. Excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to customer and end user experience
21. Ability to manage and meet deadlines with a high level of problem-solving skills
22. Demonstrate the ability to handle multiple projects with ambitious deadlines
23. Be teamwork oriented with demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team environment
Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:
24. Specialist skills in video design and/or graphic design.
25. Experience using audio and visual equipment to create engaging content.
26. Project management knowledge with the ability to structure, plan, control, and coordinate multiple tasks.
What’s in it for you?
27. Competitive salary up to £40,000 per annum, depending on experience
28. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
29. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
30. Generous Pension Scheme through AON
31. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.