Learning and Development Manager at Action Against Hunger | ACF-International

Location: Abuja, FCT
Starting Date: As Soon As Possible
Direct Line Manager: HR Head of Department

Objective 1

• Promote, develop and implement Action Against Hunger’s learning and development strategies and programs

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Spend time with line managers to gain an appreciation of our ways of working and support department to assess staff capacity needs
• Establish professional relations with all departments to ensure training needs are met
• Work closely with various departments across the organisation and having a full understanding of their units and training requirements
• Ensure baseline training documents and learning activities are produced, maintained and available for the concerned departments and effectively used
• Develop, maintain and implement the mission training plan.

Objective 2

• Design and lead the implementation of training plan and Talent management need  within Action Against Hunger

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Design staple curriculums for all employees
• Conduct effective induction and orientation sessions
• Create training programmes that are aligned with the organisation’s objectives, values and competencies and having a strong understanding of what these are
• Acting as the go-to within the organisation for anyone with questions or queries regarding training and development plans
• Embracing different styles of training techniques, including e-learning, tutorial sessions or coaching
• Having an awareness of the allocated budget and an ability to find solutions in order to implement the required training 

Objective 3

• Modules development  for each sectorial trainings and technical support to all programs capacity building activities

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Coordination with all sector heads and related staff members for finalization of contents for sectors specific  trainings module development
• Development of all sectors training modules for the trainings by identifying and describing information needs, submitting initial versions for review; revising and editing final copy
• Development of standard operating procedures for the trainings submitting initial versions for review, revising and editing final copy.
• Technical Support and capacity building on training module development to all staff delivering trainings.
• Leading the whole capacity building activities and provide technical support to the staff engaged in the capacity building activities
• Monitoring and supervision of trainings as per the developed trainings SOPs

Objective 4

• Report writing and development of Training Data Base

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Submission of training reports including the training evaluation and impact assessment
• Development of Monitoring checklist for field visits to ensure the quality of trainings deliver, identify the weaknesses and Gap draft recommendation for training
• Development of training data base containing all training information overall at capital and bases level
• Ensure the proper updating of the training in data base

Internal & External Relationships
Internal:

• Country Director: exchange of information and collaboration.
• Deputy Country Director Support: technical support, exchange of information and collaboration.
• HR Head of Department: Line Manager, technical guidance, planning of responsibilities
• Field Coordinators, Project Manager, Deputy Project Manager, exchange of information and technical support (integrated approach)

External:

• Humentum
• PM4NGO’s
• Lingos (AAH USA)
• Talent acquisition (ACF France).

Position Requirements
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Industrial Relations, Business Psychology, Business Management, or a closely related field, AND 3 to 4 years of experience in training, employee development, leadership and organization development

Skills & Experience:
Essential:

• Proven work experience as a training manager
• Track record in designing and executing successful training programs
• Familiarity with traditional and modern training methods (mentoring, coaching, on-the-job or in classroom training, e-learning, workshops, simulations etc)
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
• Strong writing and record keeping ability for reports and training manuals
• Good computer and database skills
• Excellent communication, planning and negotiation skills.
• Trainer of trainers qualified

Preferred:

• Experience of LINGOS methodology.

Gross Basic Salary

• NGN 424,310 - NGN 681,350 per month.