Learning Consultant

Learning Consultant

Overview:

We are currently seeking a Learning Consultant (LC) who will execute a portfolio of standard and custom projects across multiple customers and establish solid working relationships with internal stakeholders across all areas of the organization as needed.

As a Learning Consultant, you will be responsible for drafting or modifying a project plan for each project and ensuring that all projects are completed within scope and to the quality standards required.  Projects can include facilitating live sessions, developing workshops; driving and executing a Customer’s learning strategy, creating marketing plans and materials, curating content, building blended learning programs, conducting needs analyses, advising customers on best practices, measuring results/reporting and similar learning and development activities.  Establishing solid rapport and working relationships with all external stakeholders to ensure a delighted customer experience for the duration of the project and to deliver clear value in accordance to the customer’s needs as described in the contract will be important for this role. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage the delivery of service engagements for Enterprise Skillsoft clients
• Work with account teams to focus on customer specific program needs. (E.g. engagement with stakeholders throughout the customer enterprise for analysis and alignment of learning solutions, aligning content to competency models and training needs, custom reporting and trend analysis to support value measurement, change management to support learning adoption, marketing and communication to support solution awareness, complex global roll-outs, etc.)
• Act as a liaison for Skillsoft and provides a communication point of contact as it relates to the customer’s service engagements within the parameters of the contract
• Conduct and participate in customer meetings virtually to collect and understand customer business needs around those services provided
• Keep up to date on course/curriculum offerings, changes to certification tracks, newly released versions of Percipio and Skillsoft products to inform customer of appropriate changes, as well as, on L&D industry trends and best practices to align with customer’s goals and business priorities
• Develop and maintain detailed project work plans, completing all deliverables on time and in scope, with the ability to evaluate project risks and raise to management in order to develop contingency plans
• Communicate project status on a weekly basis to management and account team, maintaining a repository of meeting minutes and project issues
• Escalate issues that impact client relationships to Skillsoft management and internal resources for resolution
• Pursue understanding of the customer's business and learning priorities and goals as the basis for consulting and recommendations
• Be agile and react to change productively and undertake other tasks as assigned

SKILLS & QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:

Skills Required:

• Advanced level of desktop application skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Project, Access) with ability to learn new technologies and applications quickly as new application skills
• Robust project management, time management and organizational skills
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills to deliver polished concise presentations to Enterprise customers at all levels of an organization

Qualification Requirements

• 5-8 years of professional experience as a practitioner of learning facilitation, leadership development, learning ROI metrics and measurement, and/or learning strategy with a Bachelor’s degree or a combination of post-secondary education and experience
• Experience with applying L&D theories and methodologies with the ability to share recommendations, best practices and guidance for a variety of unique customer needs
• Knowledge, experience or familiarity with the computer-based training market
• Familiarity with LMS or LCMS platforms, and preferably the integration of learning content with LMS platforms
• Understand foundational principles of adult learning and development and the effective application thereof
• The ability to analyze data to derive meaningful information, insights and provide recommendations that align to the customer’s goals. The ability to recommend data combinations/slices to best illustrate and track a customer’s progress towards learning goals