Job Description

Keen to become part of a truly global, collaborative team of professionals? Your journey begins here.Job TitleLearning & Development - 12 Month Fixed Term ContractDepartmentPeopleLocationBirminghamReports ToLearning and Development Manager (Munich)Working Hours35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office, please contact a member of the recruitment team to discuss further.Firm DescriptionHogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.In the UK Hogan Lovells has offices in Birmingham and London. The Birmingham office opened in 2015 and has a number of practice areas including Corporate/Commercial, Disputes, Finance and Real Estate, as well as our Legal Delivery Centre and Business teams.Department DescriptionHL Learn, the global Learning and Development team, is part of the firms People function, and headed by the Chief Learning Officer, based in Washington D.C. Teams in each of the firms regions (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and EMEA) collaborate on global, regional, and local initiatives. The EMEA team is based across offices in London, Birmingham, Munich and Johannesburg, and supports the firms People strategy through a range of coaching, development programs, workshops, e-learning, and other career development activities.Role OverviewThe Learning and Development Adviser will support the design and delivery of live programmes and virtual instructor-led programmes for senior lawyers. They will be responsible for planning, organising logistics, updating materials and hosting the programmes as well as communicating with participants and faculty. This role will closely collaborate with the L&D team across the globe and will provide the opportunity to facilitate workshops for junior and associate lawyers.Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• Build on existing practice-specific training to set a regional and global strategy for our practice area training. Practice areas focus primarily on Corporate and Finance, Litigation, Global Regulation and IPMT. Work with key stakeholders (e.g. practice area leaders, subject matter experts and knowledge lawyers) to ensure our lawyers have access to best in class legal training, and to leverage the firms knowledge and learning to support the firms strategic objectives
• Collaborate with HL Learn, Heads of Knowledge, and Knowledge Lawyers to ensure effective deployment and improving and maximize the sharing of legal and practice-specific training resources across the practices
• Manage the Legal Learning team, including day-to-day needs, development, and recruitment; inspire and lead the Legal Training Managers and Legal Training Coordinators through clear articulation of the legal learning practice strategy and their role in fulfilling the strategy
• Work with Information Technology teams to ensure our e-learning and learning management systems and tools are fit for purpose, keep pace with emerging technologies (e.g. AI), and enable us to deliver the legal training programs and processes we need
• Work closely with key stakeholders to ensure that our strategic legal practice-specific learning and objectives are reflected in and consistent with the firms approach to changing hybrid working practices, workplace design, DEI, and lawyer career path initiatives
• Keep up-to-date with training and learning trends, law firm business trends, e-learning technology and hybrid working trends, and legal developments; integrate key practice skills and expertise needed for the lawyers of the future into training
• Drive cultural change across the firm in line with HL Learn principles, embed a culture of commitment to legal education excellence, curiosity, continuous learning, innovation, engagement, and exceptional client service delivery
• Monitor uptake of legal learning opportunities and analyze the quality of legal/practice training in order to drive our legal learning strategy and program development
• Participate in the annual budgeting process, and manage the Legal Learning budget.

Specific duties or responsibilities may be reviewed from time to time to reflect changes in personnel and management structure, staff location or services.All members of the firm participate in our Responsible Business program.Person SpecificationQualifications & Training

• Several years experience of working in a professional services environment in a Learning and Development role
• Professional certification in learning and development (e.g., CIPD) is desirable
• A very good knowledge of the MS Office suite of applications, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and excellent IT skills (Teams, Zoom, interactive software for polling, quizzes etc.) Familiar with LMS systems such as CSOD or similar

General Attributes

• Commitment to high levels of client service.
• Builds and maintains relationships of professional trust and courtesy with colleagues and internal clients at all levels, and with external contacts
• Collaborative team player, able to work effectively as part of a global team
• Pro-active and self-motivated with a passion for continuous learning
• Adaptable, able to use initiative, problem solve and take on new challenges
• Resilient and able to work under pressure
• Demonstrates a proactive attitude and a willingness to use initiative
• Excellent project management skills, with a keen focus on prioritization and planning, and the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously
• Understands the processes required to facilitate the delivery of a successful training program, including budget management, and ensures their implementation
• High attention to detail and able to follow instructions and processes consistently
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Exercises confidentiality, tact and discretion
• Reliably and consistently delivers on agreed objectives and commitments
• Interest in facilitating training
• Willingness to travel as required (including overseas) to deliver programs in line with business needs

Agile Working StatementOur goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.Equal Opportunities Employment StatementIt is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex , gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.#LI-WS

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