Learning Designer

As a Learning Designer you will design and deliver innovative approaches to learning, ensuring solutions meet the needs our learners, and responds 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.

What you’ll be doing as a Learning Designer

• Ensure that company policy, goals and objectives are being adhered to and represented within design of learning.
• Work with other designers and across the learning teams to contribute towards design and learning experience consistency across Thames Water.
• Use a range of technologies and solutions to develop a learning lead culture of self-development and continuous learning and development.
• Ensure all learning solutions delivered have clear learning objectives (using Blooms Taxonomy) and business outcomes.
• 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.
• 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.

Base Location: Reading / Swindon - Hybrid
Working Pattern: Fixed term 12 months -  36 Hours Monday to Friday
Requirement: Some travel to other sites if filming is required and to meet with stakeholders as necessary

What you should bring to the role

• An understanding of Training with an ability to design learning.
• A good understanding of knowledge transfer and learning styles.
• 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.
• Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrates the ability to handle multiple projects with ambitious deadlines.
• A portfolio of training design using tools including Storyline, Articulate 360 and Creative Cloud is desirable.
• Experience in digital content production, able to storyboard, design and develop engaging training.
• Project management knowledge with the ability to structure, plan, control, and co-ordinate 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).
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

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, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

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.