Learning and Development Adviser

**BRISBANE, MELBOURNE - CBD, SYDNEY - MACQUARIE PARK**

**THE OPPORTUNITY**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Learning and Development Adviser to join our Learning and Development team based in either our Melbourne, Brisbane, or Sydney (Macquarie Park) office.

Reporting to the Senior Learning and Development Manager, day-to-day your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

- Providing support with the design and delivery of development initiatives
- Liaising with various internal and external stakeholders to project manage select programmes
- Providing co-facilitation (and sole facilitation when confident) both face to face, hybrid and virtually, at development programmes and events
- Assisting the Legal Learning Manager with group specific legal learning, including graduate, mid-level and ad-hoc events and programmes and handling CPD queries
- Supporting effective use of the firm’s global learning management system, Cornerstone On Demand
- Providing coaching to lawyers and Business Services staff as required

**SKILLS, EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS**

**To be successful in this role, you will have**:

- Demonstrable experience in event management and design and delivery of L&D programmes in a corporate environment
- Previous facilitation and coaching experience (desirable)
- Awareness of exploring and advising on development needs with individuals
- Intermediate level of proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Previous experience with databases (including Learning Management Systems) is essential
- Proven ability to work autonomously and meet deadlines, while maintaining excellent attention to detail
- Tertiary qualification (desirable)

**GROUP / TEAM**

Knowledge & Learning

**GROUP / TEAM DESCRIPTION**

**The team**:
Our knowledge and learning professionals support our lawyers to provide world-class legal advice. The team works collaboratively and innovatively to provide measurable value to our clients.

As part of this dynamic global team, you will drive collaboration and knowledge-sharing across jurisdictions and practice groups. You’ll be involved in strategic projects and deliver knowledge and learning solutions directly to our people and our clients. Whether it’s providing insightful legal updates, specialised research, innovative learning solutions or quality know-how and precedents, your expertise will equip our people with the skills and insight to deliver excellence in a competitive marketplace.

We’re committed to your career development and will support you with exceptional training, coaching and mentoring opportunities. If you’re passionate about knowledge and learning, grow your career with us.

Herbert Smith Freehills is proud to be awarded Law Firm of the Year (Australasian Law Awards, 2021), Top Attraction Firm (Lawyers Weekly, 2021), Most Innovative International Law Firm, Asia Pacific (Financial Times Awards 2019 & 2020), and Winner of the Minds Count Annual Award for Best Mental Wellbeing Initiative 2019.

**What we offer**:

- We recognise that the success of our business and our clients relies on the skills, knowledge and ideas of all our people. We are dedicated to creating an exceptional experience for our clients and we value empathy, simplicity and commerciality.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perform at your best by being your authentic self at work. We know that our future success not only depends on being innovative and progressive in the changing legal market but, most importantly, on our people feeling highly engaged in meaningful work.
- People join us to develop their careers and themselves. To support this we provide contemporary tailored learning programmes, regular career conversations and a culture of feedback.
- At Herbert Smith Freehills we value flexibility. For most roles, we work an average of 60% of the time in the office, taking into consideration individual, team, client and learning needs.
- This vacancy is being managed directly by Herbert Smith Freehills Recruitment team. We will contact our preferred agency partners should we require additional assistance. Thank you._

**ROLE TYPE**

Business Services

**CONTRACT TYPE**

Permanent

**WORKING PATTERN**

Full Time

**DIVERSITY & INCLUSION**

At Herbert Smith Freehills you will be part of a diverse, innovative culture where high performance, client focus and highly engaged people are our differentiator. People at our firm come from a range of backgrounds and bring a wide variety of experiences and perspectives to their work with us. We strive to ensure that our inclusive environment means you feel valued and able to perf