View Vacancy - HK - L & D Adviser (Business Partner) for APAC, C4 (L) - (also open in Thailand, Malaysia and Philippines)

The Diplomatic Academy Regional Teams (DARTs) provide innovative and creative learning solutions to meet the needs of the UK Government overseas. We partner with British Missions (Posts) to ensure learning is based on performance outcomes and aligned to UK Government priorities. We work to ensure that learning activities are designed to best-practice L&D standards, based on solid research and contribute to building a positive learning culture within the workplace.

We work at a fast pace with a high degree of autonomy.  We need to be flexible and adept at dealing with change and ambiguity.  We need to be skilful at working across cultures and resourceful to ensure we always deliver, even when we meet the unexpected.

This role requires an experienced L&D professional with strong consultancy skills to partner with overseas Posts and help develop, deliver and evaluate learning strategies that support performance outcomes and the development of learning cultures.

The successful applicant should expect to work in an agile way to support DA activity in other areas including learning partnership, to support existing and emerging priorities.

Roles and responsibilities: 

Partner with Overseas Posts – 70% of time

• Partner with senior stakeholders at Posts to identify specific performance improvement outcomes over a 6-12 month period
• Help Posts plan the learning strategy and solutions to meet those outcomes, drawing on all relevant resources, internal and external
• Provide a consultancy service to advise on developing a learning culture, empowering and supporting Posts to devise their own learning solutions, signposting other L&D opportunities, share best practice and proactively encourage engagement with Diplomatic Academy content
• Evaluate the impact of L&D solutions on performance outcomes and maintain management information and data

Partner with Learning Partners and global Diplomatic Academy team – 15% of time

• Work with our Learning Partners to help ensure the right learning solutions are developed to meet the needs of the stakeholders and are thoroughly evaluated
• Work with other Business Partners to ensure a consistent approach to business partnering across the network, best-practice is shared, and there is a culture of continuous improvement in our service
• Work with the UK Diplomatic Academy team and other stakeholders as required 

Learning Facilitator – 15% of time

• Facilitate learning sessions both virtually and face to face
• Community and group moderation to lead groups in virtual environments

• Fluent spoken and written English 
• Minimum 5 years in a L&D and/or OD environment either public or private sector
• Ability to diagnose, identify and prioritise gaps, to strategise and set performance outcomes, to deliver and evaluate learning strategies/plans which improve or change learning culture
• Able to communicate and facilitate both virtual and live (face to face) groups effectively
• Excellent consultative and partnering skills
• Content management and curation ability
• Capability in community and group moderation to lead groups in virtual environments
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
• Able to travel as and when required
• A passion and enthusiasm for developing people