Learning & Development Lead

Hybrid (minimum of 3 days per week in-person working)

Shape the future of learning for colleagues and volunteers at Parkinson's UK!

As our Learning & Development Lead, you ll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering learning initiatives that directly support our People & Culture and organisational strategies, including leading and maintaining our accredited and highly successful Leadership & Management programme.

Your work will equip our people to excel in their roles, enhance our ways of working, and ultimately contribute to our vision of finding a cure and improving life for everyone affected by Parkinson's.

About the role

In this role you ll connect with our staff, volunteers and community in-person at our central London office and locally across all four nations. This will involve working with a variety of stakeholders and subject matter experts, and travelling regularly across the UK to our dedicated remote teams.

What you ll do:

• Design and deliver a learning plan which meets the needs of our strategies and carry out training needs analysis

• Refresh our core programmes and initiatives to further improve skills across the charity with focus on given to our management & leadership roles.

• Work closely with the People and Volunteering teams to successfully respond to training needs for individual development plans and charity compliance e.g. capability, upskilling and safeguarding

• Develop and deliver monthly learning courses, e-learning, workshops, wellbeing and inclusion sessions

• Coach, support and develop the L&D experts, and develop learning experts in the wider charity in a matrix way

What you ll bring:

• Proven success in development and delivery of training courses in-house both in person and virtually

• Demonstrable experience of designing and delivering successful and impactful Learning initiatives - including management or leaderships

• Proven ability to build rapport and effective working relationships with colleagues and volunteers at all levels

• Experience of digital learning and complementary learning techniques for varied audience groups

• Strong analytical and inquisitive skillset, with the energy and capacity to turn recommendations into deliverable, measurable action plans

This is an exciting time for Parkinson s UK and we would love you to join us!

Please apply by sending us your CV, together with a detailed supporting statement which will fully demonstrate how you meet all the criteria of the role, as stated in the "What you'll bring" section of the job description.

As well as flexible working hours, this role is offered on a flexible contract giving you the opportunity to also work from home up to two days a week. You ll be required to cover your own travel expenses to the office.

Interviews for this role will be held on Wednesday 30 April 2025.

Anyone can get Parkinson s. It s vital that the people who work for Parkinson s UK are representative of our diverse community. We actively encourage people from all sections of the community to apply, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, disability, sexual orientation, or religion.