Learning and Development Lead

Full Time
Dublin, County Dublin
Posted
Job description

Region

Dublin City Centre

Role Description

At Cairn, we have a vision to be a guiding force in home building across Ireland, creating homes where people love to live and spaces where communities come together. It’s this focus on the quality of life of our customers that has brought us to the forefront of the Irish new homes market and has fuelled our regional expansion plans beyond the greater Dublin area.

By working at Cairn, you will be part of a team that supports you both personally and professionally, and we continuously strive to understand the needs of our people so they can perform at their best. Our benefits portfolio supports employees and their families’ evolving needs, and our approach to continuous learning provides a career development pathway that recognises and builds on their skills and experience. It’s this people-first mindset that led to Cairn Homes being recognised as one of Ireland’s Best Large Workplaces and a 2022 Great Place to Work.



Cairn Homes plc has a unique opportunity for a high calibre Learning and Development Lead to join our growing team, in a fast-paced dynamic working environment.

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Key Responsibilities

Typically, the candidate will be expected to undertake and assist with the following duties:

  • Identify strategic learning needs, skill gaps and development opportunities across our business and design & deliver new programmes that will have impact and are aligned to best practice development theory.

  • Partner with the People Team and Functional Leads to carry out functional training needs analysis for teams based on delivery priorities, functional objectives, and business strategy.

  • Support core operational functions by designing, develop and delivering role specific training frameworks and tailored learning pathways.

  • Deliver training, workshops, and development support for staff at all levels, with a specific focus on management & leadership development & coaching.

  • Drive a learning culture across the business by supporting teams to coordinate role-specific learning interventions and promote the sharing of any activity and learnings on our central comms platform

  • Act as a role model within the people and engagement space, demonstrating knowledge of learning theory and program design in support of company engagement drivers and talent strategy

  • Manage the training budget, contract agreements and payment approvals for external vendors and partners.

  • Manage the Learning & Development Coordinator and support them to coordinate, track and report on group training activity and approve individual further education or training requests

  • The Candidate

  • Bachelor’s Degree qualification in relevant discipline e.g., Business, Psychology or Human Resource Management.

  • Minimum of 5 years of experience in Learning & Development roles

  • Excellent communication, facilitation and coaching capability with experience facilitating senior level conversations

  • Advanced verbal, written, and presentation skills.

  • Experience of designing and implementing an end-to-end training and development strategy.

  • Strong attention to detail, time management and proven ability to multitask effectively across multiple strategic priorities.

  • Displays a high level of personal resilience and the ability to remain effective in a dynamic working environment

  • Enthusiastic and ambitious with a strong work ethic and flexible work attitude

  • Team player with ability to contribute both individually and as part of a team

  • Experience in construction environment advantageous but not required.

  • Education Level

    3rd Level Qualification

    Experience Level


    Basis

    Permanent - Full Time

    Duration

    Permanent

    Benefits

    We are delighted to offer a suite of benefits when you join Cairn which include
  • Competitive salary

  • Performance related bonus

  • Pension scheme with matching contributions

  • Full health insurance with Irish Life health

  • Annual salary review

  • Continuous Professional development (CPD) programme & funding

  • Paid maternity & paternity leave

  • Free Cairn annual leave days

  • Life assurance

  • Income protection

  • Employee Assistance Programme with VHI

  • Corporate gym membership

  • Tax saver - travel and bike to work

  • Save as you earn (SAYE) scheme

  • Culture Committee

  • Talent Development Programmes

  • Company vehicle (role dependent)
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