Learning Designer

6 MONTHS FIXED TERM CONTRACT 

As a Learning Designer, you will design and deliver innovative approaches to learning, ensuring solutions meet the needs our learners, and respond to business priorities. This will include being part of the overall design and creative concept, together with scripting and storyboarding of the digital learning components, enabling our levels of accessibility, and functionality testing.

You will use your existing skills to develop and deliver digital learning solutions including the utilisation of visual and audio recording equipment, Articulate Storyline and Adobe Creative Cloud to creating impactful and engaging content. You will also be responsible for maintaining our quality of learning and commitment to accessibility, to create an inclusive learning culture to enable our people to succeed at the point of need.

What you’ll be doing as a Learning Designer
Learning design

• Be an independent, creative thinker grounded in real world delivery with credible experience of what best in class learning experiences look like for today’s workplace.
• Write high quality scripts and develop storyboards for the production of digital learning. This could include video, animation or e-learning formats.
• Act as an authority for learning design, ensuring learning is creative, engaging and effective for all learning styles.
• Consider ROI of all training interventions and challenge the need for formal training vs alternative methods.
• Support the transformation of learning to a 70/20/10 model.
• Ensure all learning solutions delivered have clear learning objectives (using Blooms Taxonomy) and business outcomes.
• Use a range of technologies and solutions to develop a learning lead culture of self-development and continuous learning and development.
• Have a strong interest in learning technologies, innovative learning approaches and modern training techniques.

Stakeholder management and engagement

• Work collaboratively as part of a sprint team, together with Learning Consultants and subject matter experts to develop and deliver appropriate learning solutions to meet project needs.
• Work with other designers and across the learning teams to contribute towards design and learning experience consistency across Thames Water.
• Have good communication skills to manage the relationship with the project owner and be able to share your solution and ideas clearly.
• Ensure that company policy, goals and objectives are being adhered to and represented within design of learning.

3RD Party relationship

• Work with subject matter experts to gather and refine the raw content information.
• Manage relationships with external advisors and providers in an efficient and effective way.
• Engage across Thames Water to obtain buy in and commitment for the learning solution.

Hybrid – Reading / Swindon
36 hours a week

What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:

• Experience in digital content production, able to storyboard, design and develop engaging training
• Proven track record and portfolio of training design using tools including Articulate Storyline 360 and Creative Cloud
• Solution and outcome driven with a strong business perspective
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Excellent interpersonal skills and commitment to customer and end user experience
• Ability to manage and meet deadlines with a high level of problem-solving skills
• Demonstrate the ability to handle multiple projects with ambitious deadlines
• Be teamwork oriented with demonstrated experience working in a collaborative team environment

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:

• Specialist skills in video design and/or graphic design.
• Experience using audio and visual equipment to create engaging content.
• Project management knowledge with the ability to structure, plan, control, and coordinate multiple tasks.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £40,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.
If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else just let us know, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.