Job Summary

The role holder will be responsible for the design of contemporary and impactful learning interventions globally. In this capacity, the role holder supports, adapts and enhances new work standards, processes and practices of the Discipline. Role holder must lead by example in sharing expertise and advice on transferring ideas and insights regarding their Discipline into improving the productivity and performance of the squads.

The role holder spends majority of their time supporting the localisation agenda in the Middle East and the remaining time within a squad contributing as a squad member from the Creative and Delivery Discipline for large scale and complex projects as prescribed by the Hive.

Key Responsibilities

• The role holder will also provide Learning and Upskilling support across the bank and, in particular for local regulatory requirements, ensuring appropriate readiness for audit and compliance reviews and to ensure the Bank meets all requirements for learning in the Emiratisation programme.
• Role holder will work with their Hub Leads, and across the People Capability (PC) chain to ensure that local regulatory / compliance learning and competency requirements are clearly managed, ideally by leveraging global solutions as much as possible.
• Engage business/functions in country to understand the business needs and match these with People Capability interventions or where not present this up the People Capability Management Team (PCMT) chain for reviews and engagement with the global business/function.
• Promotes the development and elevation of the Creative and Delivery Discipline by managing risks, meeting governance requirements and quality assurance for the Disciplines.
• Leads and facilitates interaction and knowledge sharing processes among Creative and Delivery Discipline practitioners.
• The role requires someone who can empower Discipline practitioners, bringing energy and drive to motivate and inspire teams. The role holder should also be willing to bring in external/ new thought leadership, emerging best practices and innovations, story-telling and creative techniques to actively upskill the Discipline practitioners on.

• The role holder ensures the provision of ongoing people upskilling and colleagues are suitably skilled to deliver on the current job as well as build skills for the future.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Advise and design annual learning plan for UAE Nationals
• Advise and design sub learning plans for targeted populations such as (succession planning, growth planning, Top talent, Emirati women etc)
• Track completion /uptake of the Emiratization learning initiatives records for BRF reporting.
• Partner/collaborate with EIF for certifications, offerings, Design and development of bespoke learning interventions.
• Plan and implement UAE National specific events (Emirati women’s day and Eid Al Etihad (national day celebrations)
• Submission of training planning as aligned to Emiratization standards.

Skills and Experience

• Learning Design and development fundamentals    
• Agile project management    
• Design prototyping and experimentation  
• Data Literacy    
• Horizon scanning    
• Business Acumen    
• Knowledge and experience in emerging learning solutions incorporating, including on-demand platform delivered learning, social, experiential, and virtual/interactive learning 
• Stakeholder Management   

Qualifications

• Education   -  B.sc or first degree in a relevant field    
• Languages  -   English, Arabic would be an added advantage
   

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.