Description
Role: Learning Designer
Location: Milton Keynes (nationwide)
Daily Rate: up to £268.53 (LTD/Umbrella) or up to £307.56 (PAYE)
IN SCOPE OF IR35
About Network Rail and the Department
Here at Network Rail, we believe that investing in our people is key to improving the safety, reliability and efficiency of the railway. This in turn, means that we can serve the needs of our customers and the travelling public. Network Rail Training is committed to this goal. We aim to build an environment where every individual is able to succeed and is inspired to reach their full potential, helping the company to become a natural choice for talented people to join.
We deliver a wide range of learning solutions from technical and vocational skills, through to professional development, safety, leadership, new entrant programmes and higher education designed and developed to enable continuous improvement of safety and business performance across the business. Everything we do is to support our safety culture of getting everyone home safe every day.
The Training Analysis & Design team scope and validate training requirements across the organisation which are the outcome of various forums or reviews that have taken place. The team will analyse the learning needs to inform a new training design or maintain existing designs.
This team would be suitable for individuals that are passionate about training process analysis.
Job purpose:
To provide the analysis and design for the learning and development solution, in accordance with Network Rail's agreed quality and safety standards, in order to maintain Network Rail's reputation for producing high quality creative and cost-effective training solutions.
Key Accountabilities:
Produce, develop and maintain training materials in accordance with Network Rail and industry standards as appropriate, to enable the development of workforce to achieve competent status.
.Analyse training, assessment, and assurance requirements using approved Network Rail tools and practices for assigned projects in order to recommend creative, cost effective solutions that meet prevailing organisational imperatives and learner needs.
Provide instructional design expertise for the analysis, design and implementation considerations, of learning and assurance solutions to agreed time, budget, and quality standards, for use in online, blended or face-to-face events.
Lead training design workshops to agree design specifications, technical requirements, and deliverables.Comply with Network Rail safety, branding, design, accessibility, and diversity and inclusion policies as well as technical guidelines.
Interface professionally and communicate project progress as required to the relevant Portfolio Manager, the Network Rail Training senior leadership team, and subject matter experts as appropriate.
Continuously review the effectiveness of analysis and design activities to identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency, incorporating lessons learned into future projects.
Proactively research new training delivery methodologies, and demonstrate application of this knowledge when evaluating training design options.
Job skills, experience and qualifications:
Essential
Knowledge and awareness of software for designing.
.Eperience with development software, eg Articulate.
.Demonstrable experience in designing, developing, and implementing creative, innovative and effective learning and development solutions, across a diverse range of disciplines and delivery methods
Experience of successful customer/stakeholder relationship management skills
Good organisational skills and the ability to work under pressure to tight deadlines
Demonstrate personal accountability when striving for results, whilst consistently role-modelling core behaviours of collaboration and customer-centred decision making.
Assess and challenge risky or unsafe actions, or poor behaviours of others.
Desirable
A learning and development qualification (eg, CIPD)
A relevant project management qualification (eg, APM)
Knowledge of the railway industry or a related engineering discipline