Digital Learning Specialist

A leading UK law firm with a network of offices from the South Coast to Scotland, working together as one national team. An innovative practice and the first top 100 law firm to achieve “Gold Standard” Investors in People, our values and culture are not just words on our website but are the heartbeat of the firm. The lack of barriers between departments, a real lack of hierarchy, zero tolerance for arrogance and pomposity makes Shoosmiths a fantastic place to work.

The Digital Learning Team forms part of the Learning & Development Team. Whose purpose is to enable people to be their best selves and realise their potential – driving individual, team and organisational performance by providing the highest quality training to allow them to be excellent at their job. The learning culture we promote is one of inclusivity and support, where learning resources are provided for everyone to access in a safe and reassuring way. Continuous improvement, regardless of experience is encouraged in line with the delivery of the Shoosmiths Strategy to be the leading national law firm famous for its client experience.

The Digital Learning Team provides Digital Learning materials, including multi-media, to our colleagues for compliance training, to support personal and professional development and for training, promotion and information. Some of our courses are available for sale to external clients who login to our learning portal Horizon.

The aim of the Digital Learning Team is to design, develop, and manage innovative learning solutions internally to all Shoosmiths staff as well as to our clients.

The key responsibilities of this role are to design, create, and maintain high quality innovative learning solutions for clients and internal staff, and to provide administration support of the LMS.

We have a strong brand at Shoosmiths, but creativity is still important, and you are encouraged to bring your own flare and ideas to the solutions you will create. We aim to create effective and creative ways of reaching our audiences, whether that is through onboarding, compulsory, skills etc. training.

In this role you will interact with key stakeholders around the business and with external clients, which means that excellent communication skills (written and verbal) are essential.

Essential skills or knowledge:

• Experience using instructional design techniques to design effective eLearning solutions
• Ability to think creatively and develop ways of reaching our audiences with your training
• Ability to keep abreast of industry best practices to enhance your training
• Confidence during the scripting/storyboarding process, and to challenge SME’s where required
• Knowledge in (or experience of) authoring software, ideally Captivate and/or Adapt
• Skilled in computer applications (i.e. PowerPoint, Word, Excel, & Internet Navigation)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to deliver to deadlines
• A polite and confident telephone manner

Training will be provided but knowledge or experience in the areas below would be desirable.

Desirable skills or knowledge:

• Familiar with Adobe Creative Cloud suite, including After Effects, Photoshop etc

Shoosmiths benefits
 

Shoosmiths offers a wide range of benefits to employees. These include:

• Competitive salary
• An additional day holiday for your birthday plus £50 in high street vouchers
• Flexible holiday where you can buy or sell holiday
• Volunteering opportunities
• Access to a wide range of development opportunities
• Shoosmiths recognition awards scheme, Above and Beyond
• Discounts and purchase schemes for a large variety of goods and services
• Family & Friends referral reward scheme.

Shoosmiths is a committed Equal Opportunities employer promoting equality of opportunity. This means that everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, whatever their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.