Learning & Development Manager

UK Sport

Learning & Development Manager

£68000

UK Sport, City of Westminster

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Remote working

Posted today, 30 Sep | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 95bc17f055d5489881cbcc413635f056

Full Job Description

This role will strategically lead our UK Sport learning and development (L&D) strategy as we look to future Games and evolve our approach to meeting the needs of sports and partners. The role will be responsible for a blended learning and development offer to senior leadership teams within the GB community. Whilst the L&D Manager will oversee a team responsible for developing CEOs and Chairs, they will also hold a specific responsibility for Performance Director L&D as the critical role in the system responsible for Olympic and Paralympic success. This role will also provide guidance and support to the delivery of the 2032 Coaching strategy and working closely with the Coaching Lead. There will be a high level of engagement with internal and external stakeholders and a focus on adding value and making a difference to the wider sporting community. About you

  • Are you fascinated by human performance and learning?
  • Are you curious about the future of learning and development and what makes the difference to people's understanding?
  • Have you got a proven track record of leading performance programmes as a senior performance leader such as a Performance Director or senior performance leader?
  • Do you have experience of shaping a range of learning opportunities from individual learners to a wider audience?
  • We would love to hear from you if the above areas interest you and would add value to your next career step. Who are UK Sport? We are the UK's trusted high-performance experts, powering our greatest athletes, teams, sports and events to achieve positive success. Investing a combination of National Lottery and Government funds, we support our Olympic and Paralympic sports to realise their world-leading potential, and help bring major sporting events to the UK. Our purpose is to lead high-performance sport to enable extraordinary moments that enrich lives. We are on a mission - to create the greatest decade of extraordinary sporting moments; reaching, inspiring and uniting the nation. That mission is underpinned by three ambitions for UK high-performance sport; to keep winning and win well, to grow a thriving sporting system and to harness those to inspire positive change. Working with the sports and events we fund, DCMS, and our partner organisations across the UK high-performance system, we are building on 25 years of ever-growing success to write the UK's next chapter for Olympic and Paralympic sport.

    Following the incredible summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris, we are looking to build on the excellent people development foundations in place and take a further step on with our support to learning and development. Extraordinary people sit at the heart of our success, and we want to ensure that we are continuously developing as a sporting community and keeping in focus our ambition to win and win well.

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