Job Description

About Arup University

Arup University is the firm\xe2\x80\x99s centre of excellence and is responsible for our communities of experts and enthusiasts that enables members to develop our skills and capability to better meet the needs of our clients and drive continuous innovation across the firm. We are dedicated to expanding our knowledge, strengthening our collective capabilities, and accelerating our progress towards a sustainable future.

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The Role

Arup is highly collaborative and creative, with expertise and excellence shared worldwide. Arup University hosts 58 dedicated Global Skill Networks. These networks are open to all members (our employees) globally within Arup. The leaders of these networks bring together communities of talented and enthusiastic members to share knowledge, tools, and techniques and to drive forward the transformation of their domains. At Arup, skills are critical to building and enhancing our current and future capability and our Skill Leaders are critical in leading and enabling world class networks on behalf of the firm.

These unique communities share knowledge and technical expertise, push boundaries, experiment, and inspire each other in their work. This ensures that our clients have access to the most up to date and diverse experience and capabilities across the firm.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced learning leader to drive and develop the learning agenda within these skills-based communities to upskill and reskill approximately 18000 experts to excel in their professional practice and support our strategy and plans. They will be responsible for evaluating and developing transformational learning that is innovative and impactful to fully support our members and enable them to deliver technical excellence in everything they do.

Each Skills Network is responsible for developing capability and building deep expertise in their membership aligned to a Skills Transformation Plan.

The successful candidate will partner with the Skills Faculty within Arup University, to co-create with the 58 Global Skills Leaders learning needs and solutions that drive up standards of excellence; dealing with the unique needs of multiple cohort types from Graduate to Director when formulating world class solutions.

The successful candidate will have deep knowledge of technical learning trends, technologies and innovative learning and have experience in change management trajectories in large matrix organisations. They will be based in London working within the Arup University Group, 95+ interdisciplinary experts who form the five Faculties in Arup University. This is a role with a significant opportunity to help shape Arup\xe2\x80\x99s standards of excellence, and engage widely with our membership.

You will be in the learning faculty leadership team; but partnering full time with the Skills Faculty in your day to day work.

You will make an impact in this role by:

• Delivering a Skills Networks learning strategy in partnership with your key client, the Skills Faculty, that underpins Arup purpose, delivering excellence and transformational outcomes for Arup\xe2\x80\x99s members.
• Taking responsibility for the full cycle learning programme management including definition of capabilities, diagnosis, design, delivery of learning projects and evaluation; relying on the learning professionals within Arup University to succeed in your work.
• Leading 58 Global Skills Leaders to identify, create and implement formal learning solutions and informal activities for their community of experts in line with their Skills Transformation Plans.
• Work with professional institutions to establish quality learning provisions to enable external recognition of professional excellence for our members: including routes to establish chartership or required technical qualifications or certifications.
• Apply innovative adult learning methodologies ensuring that the learning solutions and approaches designed are imaginative, effective and engaging and fit for purpose.

Is this role right for you?

If so, you will have:

• A curious learning mindset, and will thrive in a dynamic fast paced working environment, dealing with very senior stakeholders in multiple locations around the world
• Demonstrated ability to deliver success when working across all aspects of the learning cycle (e.g. needs analysis, design & development, delivery, assessment & evaluation)
• Evidence of delivering innovation in learning solutions that create real value in projects delivered to clients; comfortable across broad range of solution typologoies.
• Project management experience and skills, including planning, stakeholder management, task management and communications.
• Ability to develop and present coherent ideas with confidence, inspiration and gravitas, creating engagement.
• A strong data driven approach to learning.
• Strong technical aptitude with willingness to learn and work with emerging technologies.

The role is based in our London office, with a requirement to attend our offices a minimum of 3 days per week.

Rewards and Benefits

We care about you and want you to perform at your best, which is why we offer one of the most competitive benefits packages in our sector.

As a member organisation, everyone shares in our success through a global profit share scheme (payments are dependent on the firm\xe2\x80\x99s financial performance).

We also provide Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance and Income protection cover. In addition, you\xe2\x80\x99ll have access to flexible benefits to help you look after all aspects of your wellbeing and give you the freedom and flexibility to find the best solutions for you, your family, and your individual needs.

Different People, Shared Values

At Arup we are an equal opportunity employer, and we accept people for who they are \xe2\x80\x93 we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of age, gender identity and expression, marital status, disability, neurodiversity and mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you\xe2\x80\x99re pregnant or on family leave. We know that when diverse teams collaborate great things are possible.

Our internal employee networks support our inclusive culture \xe2\x80\x93 from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender, LGBTQ+ and disability \xe2\x80\x93 we provide a space for you to express yourself and to make a positive difference \xe2\x80\x93 .

At Arup, we are committed to making all stages of our recruitment process accessible to all candidates and are a Disability Confident Level 2 Employer. Please let us know if you need any assistance or reasonable adjustments throughout your application and we will do everything we possibly can to support you.

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