Learning & Development Coordinator

January 12, 2023 | Comments Off on Learning & Development Coordinator

We're looking for a Learning & Development Coordinator to join our Highways team based in East London or South East London. Within this role, you can enjoy a fantastic, matched pension scheme, 24/7 virtual GP service for you and your family, a competitive annual holiday entitlement, with opportunities to buy/sell leave and even more.

Location: East London or South East London

Contract: Full time - Agile/flexible working available

Responsibilities

As Learning & Development Coordinator you'll be working within the Learning & Development team, supporting them in ensuring the contract employees are safe, legal and have the correct skills and qualifications for the role they are carrying out. Assist with the development of the skill set in the contract by engagement events and working closer with the corporate teams.

Your day to day will include:

  • Supporting administration and overseeing of activities directly related to Highways Passport, whilst embedding and driving the system forward to become best practice and industry leading
  • Carrying out duties relating to the co-ordination of training requirements including the maintaining of the training database and collating all training information
  • Ensuring compliance training is delivered to people across the contract in the most cost effective and efficient manner
Who are we looking for?

This role of Learning & Development Coordinator is great for you if you can:

  • Work with a range of stakeholders and manage relationships effectively
  • Use Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook and Teams to log information, create reports and provide data
  • Understand requirements around training
We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferable skills are always welcome! So even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat. We want to hear from candidates from all backgrounds and experiences, and we especially encourage those from underrepresented communities to get in touch with us.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during any part of the application process, please get in touch at to discuss and arrange these.

Benefits at Kier

We're proud to be able to offer our fantastic employees a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. Some of our favourites include:

  • New and enhanced family friendly policies, including eight weeks paternity leave, 26 weeks maternity leave, pregnancy loss leave, surrogacy leave, menopause guidance and more
  • Share in the success you help to create by investing in Kier through our sharesave and share incentive plans
  • Kier's Green Car Scheme
  • A huge range of deals and discounts at many your favourite brands
And so much more! You can read the full details of all of our benefits on our website:

Who is Kier?

We're made up of six business units, Group Functions, Construction, Highways, Infrastructure, Utilities and Property, and as a group, our purpose is to sustainably deliver construction and infrastructure services which are vital to the UK. Take a look at our sustainability objectives:

At the core of all our projects is technical excellence, utilising the latest building methods and innovations to ensure we offer the best value to our clients as sustainably as possible.

Our projects are those that support the local communities we work in, helping them thrive and progress. We are collaborative, trusted and focussed in all that we do, and our people are essential in helping us achieve our goals.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion (D&I) initiatives, and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies and initiatives.

You can see more about our D&I action plan here:

Closing date: 16 February 2023

Please note, interviews may take place before the closing date, and we reserve the right to close applications early.

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