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About the Role

WeirFoulds is establishing a new learning and development function to support lawyers and business professionals. This role will design and implement a firm-wide learning strategy focused on capability building and organizational effectiveness, requiring a blend of strategic leadership and hands-on execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a firm-wide learning and development strategy aligned with business and talent objectives.
• Identify current and future capability requirements for lawyers and business services professionals.
• Establish a multi-year learning roadmap supporting career progression, leadership development, digital capability, and business performance.
• Develop frameworks, standards, and governance for learning across the firm.
• Advise leadership on development priorities and learning investments.
• Design a structured and staged development framework spanning onboarding through senior leadership.
• Create learning pathways tailored to different populations including students, associates, counsel, partners, legal assistants, clerks, and business services professionals.
• Build development experiences combining formal learning, coaching, mentoring, stretch experiences, and on-the-job development.
• Introduce milestone-based learning aligned with key career transitions.
• Design and oversee leadership development initiatives for key stakeholder groups.
• Support coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and high-potential development initiatives.
• Establish development programs to strengthen leadership, management, communication, delegation, coaching, business development, and strategic thinking capabilities.
• Partner with the AI committee and AI facilitator to define the firm's digital fluency and AI capability-building agenda.
• Partner with Technology and Professional Development teams to identify emerging skills requirements.
• Design learning programs to help individuals effectively leverage technology, AI, and evolving ways of working.
• Ensure employees have access to practical, relevant, and role-specific digital learning experiences.
• Personally design, develop, and facilitate selected high-impact learning programs.
• Engage and manage external facilitators, coaches, and learning partners.
• Build and maintain a network of internal subject matter experts for learning delivery.
• Ensure learning experiences are engaging, practical, and focused on measurable outcomes.
• Balance strategic leadership with hands-on program development, facilitation, and implementation.
• Partner with Professional Development, Legal Talent, and HR teams to support development planning and career growth.
• Help establish consistent development approaches across the firm.
• Support initiatives related to onboarding, performance development, succession planning, mentorship, and talent acceleration.
• Develop tools and resources that support individual growth and career ownership.
• Establish learning metrics, success measures, and reporting frameworks.
• Evaluate program effectiveness and continuously improve offerings.
• Track participation, engagement, capability growth, and business impact.
• Manage learning budgets, vendors, and technology platforms.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to learning resources, including the Training Coordinator, internal subject matter experts, and external learning partners.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive experience in learning and development, organizational development, talent development, leadership development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide learning strategies.
• Demonstrated facilitation experience with leadership, professional services, or corporate audiences.
• Experience building learning programs from the ground up.
• Experience leading and developing employees, project teams, or cross-functional stakeholder groups.
• Strong curriculum design, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Experience influencing senior leaders and driving change across complex professional environments.
• Strong project management and program evaluation capabilities.
• Experience within a professional services, legal, accounting, consulting, or knowledge-based organization (preferred).
• Experience leading leadership development and high-potential programs (preferred).
• Familiarity with digital capability development, AI adoption, and workforce transformation initiatives (preferred).
• Experience managing learning technologies and external learning providers (preferred).

Skills

• Learning & Development Strategy
• Organizational Development
• Talent Development
• Leadership Development
• Curriculum Design
• Facilitation
• Stakeholder Management
• Strategic Thinking
• Hands-on Execution
• Change Management
• Project Management
• Program Evaluation
• Digital Capability Development
• AI Adoption
• Workforce Transformation
• Learning Technologies Management
• External Learning Provider Management

Location

• Hybrid

Work Type

• Full-time
• Permanent
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• $110,000 – $140,000

About the Company

• WeirFoulds is a law firm.