Learning & Development Assistant (12 month FTC) - Bristol

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft are looking for a new Learning & Development (L&D) Assistant to come and join our HR team on a 12 month fixed-term contract. This is a full-time role based in our Bristol office.

The key purpose of the role is to provide an efficient learning service to the business and will involve being the key point of contact for all Learning and Development enquiries in to the team and being responsible for providing a timely solution to all the enquires received.

It is also important to work very closely with all members of the Learning and Development team in order to develop collaborative relationships with the wider HR team as we continue to focus on the New Employee Experience and continually evolve our learning culture.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role as set out in this advert.  If this applies to you contact disabilityconfident@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the team will be in touch. 

Role Responsibility

Continue to build on the Firm’s learning culture and show how learning can add value to our business at all levels.

Follow the processes in place for Learning events administration which will include:

• Communication activity – taking a marketing approach to raise awareness of learning interventions.
• Room booking and room set up.
• Preparation of learning materials.
• Administration of all learner processes – to include invitations, reminders and joining instructions etc.
• Liaising with Third Party Providers to provide support in the lead up to the event and on the day of the learning intervention with on-line host support.
• Evaluation process for all learning interventions.
• Budget processing in line with authorised spend.

Maintain the Administration aspects of the Learning System to include:

• Adding new events and courses.
• Maintenance of resources hosted on the system.
• Updating attendance records.
• Dealing with enquiries that come into the Learning and Development mailbox.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes that will improve the learner experience.

Support L&D and wider HR projects as agreed to include the following areas:

• Early Talent administration support to include event co-ordination and to support with Development activities.
• DAC Beachcroft Talent Programmes.
• O Shaped Lawyer/O Shaped Leadership activity.

The Ideal Candidate

• Experience of working in a professional services or financial services environment is desirable.
• Experience of working with Learning Management Systems and or Learning experience platforms is desirable.
• A good level of computer literacy including use of Excel, PowerPoint and word is essential.
• Excellent organisational skills and high levels of attention to detail.
• Great communication skills, the ability to influence and engage colleagues and key stakeholders.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Enjoys working with a consultative and collaborative style and when sharing new ideas or new ways of working, they will make suggestions and take their colleagues with them on the journey.
• Passionate about the importance of nurturing an continuous improvement culture and a role model of the behaviours that foster high levels of engagement.
• The ability to work with and understand bespoke systems quickly.

About the Company

We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.

We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe.  In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe. 

Working with us

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.

Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.

We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as an individual. Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the ‘whole you’ to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are!

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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