Pretoria: Learning & Development Specialist posted by Numeral Financial Services Group

About the Role

Numeral Financial Services Group is a young, energetic, and passionate group of companies working in different industries, all focused on becoming market leaders in their fields. We’re excited to hire a Learning & Development Specialist who will play an integral part in our team’s development, ensuring that our employees and graduates can develop to be their best.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify training and development needs within the organisation through job analysis, appraisal schemes, and regular consultation with business managers and people practices.
• Develop and implement graduate programs, setting up connections to varsity and promoting us to recent graduates.
• Design, produce, and expand on training and development programmes, being creative and offering new and innovative ways of learning.
• Coach, mentor, and develop staff, utilizing training programmes as an opportunity to motivate employees.
• Present engaging sessions using a variety of instructional techniques or formats such as role-playing, simulations, team exercises, group discussions, videos, or lectures.
• Monitor and review the progress of trainees through assessments, questionnaires, and discussions with managers, ensuring that they can do their job.
• Create and manage our relationships with SETAs to ensure we make use of grants and oversee getting our WSP/ATRs done to keep accurate records of all training (both internal and external).
• Regularly review the L&D landscape and ensure training material remains relevant and meets key business needs.

Requirements

• An effective communicator who can interact with all types of people, both written and verbal.
• Someone who is likable, outgoing, and can really get people to engage with them.
• Takes initiative in discovering inventive methods of presenting and facilitation. Must be tech-savvy.
• Creative, analytical, and persistent, with skills in lateral thinking and logical reasoning.
• Keeps pace with change, keeping up-to-date and building knowledge as the business develops.
• Ability to handle conflict in a way that ensures a positive outcome.
• Can think on their feet, able to answer any left-field question that may come their way.
• Has an eye for detail, checking and double-checking to ensure the right information is given.
• Develops and maintains solid relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
• Conveys a positive attitude even in difficult circumstances.

Qualifications

• Accredited moderator or assessor has an advantage.
• Knowledge of the skills development act and other related legislation.
• 3+ years experience in an L&D role, specifically in a facilitation capacity.
• 2+ years’ financial services experience (long-term insurance/investment industry experience).
• Familiarity with content development software.

Salary & Benefits

No salary range is mentioned in the original description.