Learning Specialist

We are looking for a Learning Specialist to join our Bauer Academy team in the UK.

At Bauer Academy we passionately believe it’s in the interests of learners and employers that education evolves. We’re focused on cultural transformation - not just skills development. Post pandemic, best practice in learning and development is evolving; the growing need to bridge digital skills gaps and build high-performing teams whilst enhancing wellbeing and growing resilience demands training solutions that empower a disparate workforce to connect, collaborate, and thrive.

This is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced trainer and facilitator to design and deliver work-based learning solutions for our people across Bauer Media Group as well as a range of high-profile external clients. We provide training in the areas you’d expect of one of Europe’s largest media companies including leadership and management, coaching, creativity, innovation storytelling and wellbeing so you should be a confident generalist, able to facilitate a wide range of training solutions that help learners to acquire, retain, and ultimately apply new knowledge and skills as well as confidently work with a variety of client groups.

Supporting our Head of Partnerships and Programme & Design Director, you will work with clients to identify training needs and co-create innovative solutions whilst also delivering established programmes remotely and face-to-face. Through effective programme management and design expertise, this role ensures Bauer Academy’s training provision is world-class. This role collaborates to ensure all programmes and projects deliver impactful work-based learning provision - improving individual performance and creating vibrant learning cultures.

This role supports the development of new business opportunities, with targeted client management, and the commercialisation of training content.

Role Responsibility

• Provide high quality curriculum design for internal and external learning and development programmes, with an emphasis on work-based learning cultures.

• Support co-creation services including bespoke design for internal stakeholders and external clients with creative training approaches, always aligned to Bauer Academy values.

• Manage a variety of training projects, including ad hoc talent development programmes, events, and summits.

• When required, provide excellent client management, including relationship building to support growth of new business

• Contribute to Train the Trainer activities and Best Practice Sessions, aligned to specific individual / team needs, and emerging educational trends.

• Support the commercialisation of Bauer Academy training content, with entrepreneurial ideas, business plans and marketing campaigns

• Keep up to date with educational trends to ensure compliance and best practice is embedded within all design work.

• Keep up to date with evolving and emerging job roles across the creative sector internationally, with detailed updates on future training needs and trends.

• Grow and maintain high level knowledge and expertise across multiple subject areas, including leadership and management, coaching, multimedia storytelling, advertising, digital upskill.

  
  

The Ideal Candidate

• Degree-level qualification, ideally within media or education disciplines. Coaching qualification desirable.

• L5 Teaching Qualification and / or CIPD is desirable, but not essential

• Demonstrable passion for work-based learning, with skills evidencing innovative approaches

• Strong expertise in educational practice

• Strong sense of initiative, with excellent project management skills and the ability to promote process improvement

• Experience within the creative sector is preferable, ideally within a multimedia company

• Highly collaborative with exceptional inter-personal skills and the ability to influence others

• Excellent project management skills, with outstanding attention to detail and a relentless commitment to best practice

• Evidence of commercial acumen and entrepreneurship is essential

  
  

Location & Flexible Working

With multiple office locations, we are happy to accept applications from those based across mainland Britain but please note occasional travel will be expected due to the role requiring successful candidate to be available for face-to-face facilitation as and when required (particularly London).

We want to make sure that we find the right people to work in our teams, and we know that the traditional 9-5, five days a week doesn’t suit everyone. So, we would love to hear from you if you feel you’re a great fit for this role and would like to work flexibly. If you are the right person for this role, we’ll find the right working approach for you.

As part of Bauer Academy’s duties as a government approved training provider, enhanced DBS checks will be carried out for successful candidates

Package Description

Rewards packages at Bauer Media offer a range of salary sacrifice Benefits, such as our pension scheme and flexible holidays, as well as exclusive Perks like great deals and discounts for everyday life.

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 2 volunteer days
• Discounted high street vouchers
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity pay
• Internal Bauer Academy – Wide range of learning opportunities to support with your Career Development
• Opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Company pension
• Cycle to work scheme, tech loan scheme and groups discounts for healthcare insurance
• Discounted subscriptions on Bauer publications (50%)
• Thrive initiatives – Wellbeing at Bauer
• Opportunities to contribute to our Belonging@Bauer and Sustainability initiatives

About Bauer Academy

We are proud to be the home of our award-winning education business, The Bauer Academy

Bauer Academy is a training provider unlike any other because we are part of one of the world’s biggest media businesses.

Our multi-media training provider is recognised on the Register of Government Approved Apprenticeship Training Providers, certified by the Education and Skills Funding Authority and examination centre for bodies including the NCTJ and CiM.

The Academy combines the worlds of media, business and education to design and deliver unique learning & development opportunities including, Apprenticeship Standard programmes, customised corporate training and powerful community projects.

The Bauer Academy also has a long history of creating community projects, partnering with organisations such as the Big Lottery, Prince’s Trust and the European Social Fund, to train under-represented individuals new creative skills that assist with their employability prospects. In turn, this has created a significant new talent pipeline for Bauer Media and our partner businesses.

Find out more about the Academy at www.baueracademy.co.uk

About Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media UK is part of the wider Bauer Media Group and is the No.1 UK Publisher and the No.1 Digital Commercial Audio broadcaster. We reach 25 million consumers across our Radio and Publishing brands such as Greatest Hits, KISS, Grazia, Today's Golfer, Absolute, TV Choice, Scala, Country Walking, Hits Radio, CAR, Magic, MCN, Jazz FM, Puzzles and many more!

Bauer Media Group has remained one of the world’s most successful media companies for nearly 150 years through our commitment to continuous innovation and consumer obsession. Founded in Hamburg in 1875 and now in our fifth generation of family ownership, our multi-national company operates in 13 countries across Europe, reaching 200 million consumers.

Belonging at Bauer Mission statement

People are at the heart of everything we do. Inclusivity is part of who we are. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, and encourage authenticity, knowing that our differences are celebrated.

What we will offer you

Quite simply, our promise to you is that Bauer Media is a great place to do great work with great people. Our people take an enormous amount of pride in the brands they support. They like their team members, and they feel supported by their managers. We all take collective responsibility for our culture, because we know it has a ripple effect out across our brands. That’s why our culture of inclusion at work, Belonging at Bauer, is at the heart of everything we do. Belonging at Bauer is about our dual goals of being as representative as we can of the audiences we serve, and about creating a working environment where all our people feel able to bring their whole selves to work every day. It’s part of everything we do, and everyone who works here is responsible. If you join us, you’ll be an important part of this as well.

Our mental health at work

We’re proud to be the driving force behind the “Where’s your head at?” campaign, which is working to put Mental Health First Aiders on an equal footing with traditional workplace First Aiders. This is a priority for all of us that work at Bauer and we now have fully trained Mental Health First Aiders supporting and working across all of our UK locations.

Learning and Development

As the only Media company to be in the top 100 apprenticeship employers, we are striving to always be a great place to do great work for all, Bauer is committed to offering learning and development initiatives through its Bauer Academy tailored to its people, empowering teams and individuals to grow and progress in their careers.

Please Note: We are actively seeking this position. You should hear from us within 48 hours of the expiry date. Please note on some occasions the role may be closed before date shown or need to be extended.

Bauer Core Values

Passion

We LOVE what we do – it inspires, unifies and challenges us. Our passion is contagious – both loud and quiet, making the impossible possible.

Excellence

Our desire for excellence fuels our ambition for personal and business growth.

Trust

We value honesty and integrity. Trust is our foundation, empowering our people to live up to their full potential.

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship is our pursuit of opportunity – we are agile, focussed and resourceful.

If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.