Senior Learning and Skills Specialist – Qatar Airways – Doha, Qatar

Senior Learning and Skills Specialist,
reporting to Manager Learning and Skills Development.
As a Senior Learning and Skills Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in building agile, fit for purpose skills-based development and leadership and management frameworks. You will support the Manager Learning and Skills Development with necessary insights from the ground up, stakeholder feedback, and through relevant market research.
The role will require you to build effective partnerships with HRBPs and business leaders to assess performance gaps and design, develop and deliver/facilitate relevant and appropriate talent development interventions. The role also supports Executive Education and Development.

Other operational duties will include:
Managing effective partnerships with HRBPs to work collaboratively on divisional requirements for people skills, leadership and management of development initiatives/interventions.
Providing creation, delivery and improvement support for leadership and management development through verifiable, measurable and strengths-based interventions.
Conducting needs analyses to identify performance gaps and learning needs, creating relevant and modern learning content and providing review support.
Piloting and delivering/facilitating training interventions for e.g. HR enablement training, Mentoring and Coaching training, Talent, Management and Leadership programs (for both managers and employees)
Providing support in creating program governance, policies, processes and tools.
Assessment of the gaps in performance at an individual, team and departmental level through the use of behavioral and psychometric assessments or focus group facilitated workshops, surveys or through stakeholder conversations or any relevant methods.
Administering and providing feedback on psychometrics for talent acquisition, leadership development, team development, and personal development.
Identifying, define and measure appropriate KPIs for each skills, talent or performance development initiative to demonstrate ROI/ROE.
Supporting program/project owner in executing the strategy for the “Global Skills Framework”, impacting employees globally across Qatar Airways Group.
Liaising between different phases of talent journeys in order to carve a holistic developmental intervention to address the identified gaps and reduce duplication and inefficiencies.
Leveraging on existing digital platforms and employ the “Build-Buy-Borrow-Bridge” strategy while designing developmental interventions.
Handling coaching and development of ‘Learning and Skills Specialists’.
Utilizing front end Talent and Performance systems to monitor trends and KPIs as well as liaise regularly with Digital Learning team for design, development and delivery of developmental interventions

Be part of an extraordinary story
Your skills. Your imagination. Your ambition. At Qatar Airways, there are no boundaries to your potential and the impact you can make. You’ll find infinite opportunities to grow and work on the biggest, most rewarding challenges that will build your skills and experience. You have the chance to be a part of our future, and build the life you want while being part of an international community.
Our best is here and still to come. To us, impossible is only a challenge. Join us as we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.

Qualifications
About You
A successful candidate should possess the following experience and qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent with Minimum 6 years of job-related experience.
Excellent command of English language – written and spoken.
Experience managing large-scale employee development interventions and people projects.
Experience and knowledge of leadership and management development.
Experienced delivering different styles of in-person, virtual and blended facilitation for diverse audience groups.
Digital curriculum design experience.
Performance Consulting approach and skillset.
Ability to present information clearly to all audiences (From senior 1 to 1s to wider audiences).
Managerial skills – Ability to delegate work, set clear direction and manage workflow.
Strong mentoring and coaching skills.
Ability to train and develop subordinate’s skills.
Ability to foster teamwork among team members.
Preferred
Instructional design expertise.
Project Management experience.
Experience leading change initiatives.
Coaching and mentoring knowledge and expertise.
Excellent skills of leveraging learning technology, sound understanding of digital design and digital boosters’ framework.
Webinar delivery experience.

About Qatar Airways Group
Our story started with four aircrafts. Today, we deliver excellence across 12 different businesses coming together as one. We’ve grown fast, broken records and set trends that others follow. We don’t slow down by the fear of failure. Instead, we dare to achieve what’s never been done before.
So, whether you’re creating a unique experience for our customers or innovating behind the scenes, every person contributes to our proud story. A story of spectacular growth and determination. Now is the time to bring your best ideas and passion to a place where your ambition will know no boundaries, and be part of a truly global community.
Together, everything is possible.

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