Legal Learning Manager

Locations: London

Time Type: Full time

Posted on: Posted Today

Job Requisition ID: R268527

Department: People

Reports To: Legal Learning Senior Manager

Working Hours: 35 hours per week, 9:30am to 5:30pm but additional hours may be required. We are happy to consider agile and flexible working patterns. Our approach to hybrid working allows for up to 40% of time working from home and 60% working in the office.

Firm Description: Hogan Lovells is one of the leading global law firms. Our distinctive market position is founded on our exceptional breadth of our practice, on deep industry knowledge, and on our 'one team' global approach. Formed through the combination of two top international law firms, Hogan Lovells has over 40 offices in the Americas, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. With a presence in the world's major financial and commercial markets, we are well placed to provide excellent business-oriented advice to our clients locally and internationally. Our people are the key to our success, which is why we seek to recruit and retain the most talented individuals in all regions of our global practice.

Department Description: The global Leadership, Learning and Development team is part of the firm’s People function and supports the firm’s People strategy across each of the firm’s regions (Americas, APAC and EMEA) through a range of global, regional, and local development programmes, workshops, e-learning, and other career development activities. Within the Leadership, Learning and Development team, the Legal Learning team are responsible for practice-specific and technical legal training initiatives.

Role Overview: The Legal Learning Manager will be a member of the Leadership, Learning & Development team. They will be responsible for the design, development, and management of learning programmes that enhance the technical legal knowledge and legal skills of our lawyers, primarily in the EMEA region. These may take the form of in person, virtual or e-learning programmes. They will collaborate with relevant partners, Knowledge Lawyers, the Regional Heads of Knowledge, other key stakeholders, and colleagues across the People function to support specific practice area learning and development initiatives. The Legal Learning Manager will also be responsible for reviewing and refreshing digital learning content on our LMS, in collaboration with the Digital Learning & Development team.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities:

• Collaborate with subject matter experts, including Knowledge Lawyers, partners, colleagues in the Leadership, Learning & Development team and external providers, to design and deliver high quality learning programmes, workshops and e-learning which develop lawyers’ technical legal knowledge and legal skills.
• Ensure that the practice-specific legal learning programmes complement and support the firm’s lawyer career development initiatives.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders in relevant practice groups and offices in EMEA (and globally where needed), to ensure that all jurisdictions are represented in Legal Learning programming.
• In collaboration with the Digital Learning & Development team, regularly audit and refresh legal learning materials and resources.
• Design and facilitate workshops for junior lawyers (trainees and associates) in the UK.
• Monitor and evaluate programme and workshop effectiveness, value and areas for improvement through feedback and impact surveys.
• Support in the management and development of the Legal Learning Coordinators, providing feedback on an ongoing basis and promoting a continuous learning and knowledge-sharing culture where individual and team learning is nurtured, valued, and used.
• Maintain and monitor training budgets, and support with the annual budget process.
• Keep up-to-date with legal education, law firm business, digital learning, AI trends, and legal developments.
• Participate in other Leadership, Learning & Development projects and initiatives as and when required.

Person Specification:

Qualifications and Training: Several years of experience of designing and delivering online and/or in person training in a law firm or equivalent professional services environment. A qualification in learning and development and/or instructional design is preferred.

General Attributes:

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including presentation/facilitation skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational skills.
• Experience working independently as well as within cross-functional teams in a collaborative, fast-paced, professional environment.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while adhering to deadlines, and be promptly responsive to requests for assistance or information.
• Self-motivated with demonstrated ability to exercise initiative and effectively prioritize tasks.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build internal client relationships and demonstrate a client-focused approach at all times.
• Works collaboratively and flexibly within a team, willingly supporting other team members.
• Innovative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Ability to understand and work with local variations, including how to adapt to different legislative, language, and learning environment requirements.
• Strong IT skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office and experience of AI tools.

Agile Working Statement: Our goal is to embed flexibility across our business by giving everyone the opportunity to work in an agile way, whether as a regular pattern or on an ad hoc basis, and we will be happy to discuss this further.

Equal Opportunities Employment Statement: It is the policy of Hogan Lovells to provide equal opportunities for all employees in relation to recruitment, training and promotion. Decisions in these areas will be made only by reference to the requirements of the job and shall not be influenced by any consideration of racial or ethnic origin, religion, sex, gender and gender identity, age, sexual orientation, marital and civil partnership status, pregnancy or disability.