Oakleaf - Your Vision, Our Passion

Key elements of the role

Enable development, management and retention of this leading City law firms talent, in keeping with firm culture and values, principally focusing on leadership development for partners and senior Business Services managers, to support firm business and people strategy, improve business performance and enable effective change management.


Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Act as first point of contact for senior stakeholders in relation to the firms leadership development programme, ensuring that global strategic objectives, local needs and regional priorities are aligned.
• Head up and manage the firm's leadership development programme, working closely with the Global Head of L&D and the management team comprised of regional L&D managers.
• Lead design, development and delivery of the global leadership development programme as appropriate to skills and experience, including: conducting business and development needs analysis leading working groups and sourcing internal SMEs and external suppliers co-delivering global, regional and local components of the leadership development programme according to areas of expertise · identifying the appropriate blend of learning methods to maximize impact of the leadership development programme on individual and overall business performance.
• Conduct ongoing evaluation of the leadership development programme to ensure that it is meeting objectives and having a measurable impact on individual and business performance.
• Assist regional/office management in the communication, promotion and implementation of the leadership development programme, share and promote best practices, and provide ongoing support, including:
  • Developing close and productive relationships with the L&D community and key stakeholders in the network
  • Assisting the network's efforts to embed initiatives that support firm strategy and culture, e.g. Partner Leadership Framework, Associate Career Milestones, global development programmes and performance management processes.
  • Helping members of the firm-wide L&D community increase their knowledge and skills in implementing tools, systems and processes
• Work closely with the global L&D team to enable leadership coaching interventions based on the firm's 360 feedback and partner business planning processes.
• Assist in content creation and delivery of all business skills development programmes for fee earners and Business Services as part of the faculty/steering group. Present and facilitate at local, regional and global development programmes both within and outside the leadership development programme as and when appropriate.
• Participate actively in global L&D working groups/firm-wide development projects as appropriate, according to knowledge, skills, experience, and business needs.
• Assist with creation, dissemination and sourcing of firm-wide learning resources and toolkits for use in offices, sector and practice groups 10. Conduct management reporting, budgeting and quality assurance as required.

Other

• Previous experience at senior manager level or above in designing, managing delivering and improving leadership and management development programmes, ideally in a professional services environment, and able to demonstrate results.
• Demonstrable experience across Learning & Development with in-depth experience in leadership and organizational development.
• Training needs analysis and course design skills, with experience of course facilitation and delivery and managing external suppliers.
• Strong consulting and interpersonal skills: communication, relationship management, influencing, and credibility in working with senior stakeholders and people at all levels in large, complex organizations, preferably internationally.
• Team player, including experience of working successfully in a virtual team.
• Good project and programme management and evaluation skills with a track record of delivering quality products, on time and on budget, tailored as necessary to meet local needs.
• Previous experience of working in a regional or global management capacity, culturally sensitive, fluent in English and ideally one other language as appropriate to location.
• Strong academic record and ideally professional qualification in relevant fields, (e.g. HR, OD, learning design, organizational psychology), or equivalent professional experience. Experience of coaching (e.g. internal or external accreditation) desirable but not essential.