Learning & Skills Partner (Job-Share)

End Date

Friday 28 February 2025

Salary Range

£59,850 - £66,500

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

We're looking for a Learning & Skills Partner to join our team on a part-time basis as part of a job share to work a Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The role will partner the Business & Commercial Banking (BCB) and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB) business units as well as supporting Specialist Relationships roles across the Group. The role provides opportunity to drive a learning culture, build colleague skills both now and for the future and inspire others to collaborate and demonstrate a growth learning mindset.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Learning & Skills Partner (Job-Share)

SALARY: £57,546 - £63,940 (will be pro-rated)

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Bristol and Edinburgh

HOURS: Part-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this Opportunity

Learning is an incredibly exciting and dynamic place as we build the skills-based organisation of the future. We work across the Group to grow colleague skills and provide learning to enable them to do a brilliant job both now and in the future.

Learning sits within the People & Places team right at the heart of the Group and enables the learning for our colleagues to develop their skills and career. We’re a great place to work with high colleague satisfaction ratings and fantastic advocacy for the leadership team evidenced through our colleague survey results.

Here's where you'll make a difference

Key responsibilities for the role:

• Builds the learning and skills plan for the business area/platform(s) they partner, captures demand.

• Undertakes performance/change consultancy to determine a learning need from platform/business change programmes; once identified either retains ownership or routes to the appropriate learning team.

• Collects, develops and communicates learning and skills priorities across business units and archetypes.

• Provides meaningful data and insight to build a learning culture in the business areas they partner, driving active learners and encouraging curiosity to develop and grow.

• Builds and delivers relevant marketing and communication campaigns and channels.

• Uses business, platforms, and Academy insight to inform future learning and skills development and priorities.

• Ensure a ‘curation first’ principle is applied to all requests for new / revised content, ensuring maximum value is obtained via our curated content providers.

• Be an expert in the curriculum and academy content for the areas you support ensuring that it is fit for purpose and provides a best-in-class learner experience.

• Work proactively with all Learning & Skills Partners across Group to maximise application of content across all Divisions, reinforcing we ‘build once for Group’.

• Working with Change and Design and Planning and Prioritisation ensures reskilling learning is delivered to redeployed colleagues.

• Provides research and benchmarking to bring industry data, best practise, and emerging learning innovation / tools.

• Understanding of learning products available combined with good knowledge of learning science and human centred design.

• Awareness of wider change/curriculum learning prioritisation, capacity, and future strategy.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need

• Managing Key Relationships - Develops and improves key relationships to build consensus and improve delivery of change outcomes. Uses experience to manage conflicting priorities by facilitating discussion and resolution, persuading key individuals or groups to consider alternative views.

• Continuous Learning - Builds a culture of learning across the business, taking the lead on specific programmes aimed at improving creative learning opportunities and environments across the Group.

• Critical Thinking - Interprets information in an objective manner (even when it is limited) using technical or industry-specific knowledge or experience and deductive reasoning. Generates and contributes ideas to support in the formulation of judgements and solutions.

• Learning & Talent Development - Develops learning propositions in line with the Groups' needs, using varied experience to support these through to implementation. Takes ownership for the success of outcomes, tracking KPIs such as attendance and feedback.

• Impactful Communication - Creates and delivers powerful messages using verbal/non-verbal and interpersonal skills that inform and engage wide and/or varied audiences (internally and/or externally), securing acknowledgement and commitment to ideas. Demonstrates influencing and negotiating techniques.

• And you'll influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.