Leadership Design Specialist

Primary Details
Time Type: Full time

Worker Type: Employee

Location:
Sydney, Newcastle, Melbourne, Brisbane or Canberra

Type:
Fixed Term Contract through to December 2026

Hybrid role – Flexible working available
The Opportunity
Join our team as a Leadership Design Specialist, where your skills in developing modern and practical learning materials, programs, and playlists will directly support our leadership development initiatives. You'll focus on creating modular learning that can be readily adapted and deployed by our global learning teams - ensuring content is easy to use, well-communicated, and immediately applicable. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for leadership development, who thrives in fast-moving project environments, and who enjoys hands-on design and creation of learning experiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Design engaging learning experiences that support immediate application in the flow of work, promote collaboration and peer learning, and build future-of-work capabilities.
• Develop and produce clear, concise learning materials including self-learning guides, facilitator guides, toolkits, digital assets and AI augmented learning experiences, tailored to early- and mid-career leaders.
• Curate and update playlists for self-directed learning.
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure materials are relevant, accessible, and meet the needs of diverse global audiences.
• Support the global operationalisation of learning programs and experiences through co-creation of communications templates, delivery guides and practical resources.
• Contribute to a culture of continuous growth and development by making learning resources practical, engaging, technology-enabled and easy to adapt and operationalise.

About You
To be successful, you will be a creative and practical learning designer with a passion for developing leadership capability particularly for early- to mid-career leaders. You excel at meeting learning needs through engaging, scalable learning experiences that focus on practical application and have clear, meaningful impact. With a hands-on mindset, you bring fresh thinking and a focus on modern, practical solutions that help leaders grow, adapt, and thrive.

You will have:

• Experience developing learning materials, toolkits, and digital resources for leadership development, ideally within a large corporate environment.
• Strong capability in operationalising learning programs, including communications, templates, playbooks, and LMS support.
• Understanding of adult learning and experience design, with a focus on translating outcomes into practical, engaging learner experiences.
• Curiosity and interest in emerging learning technologies and trends shaping leadership development.
• Solid communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build trust and navigate diverse stakeholder relationships.
• A collaborative and organised approach, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, agile environment.

About QBE
We can never really predict what's around the corner, but at QBE we're asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We're an international insurer that's building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We're proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we're big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let's make it happen

Benefits
We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• 'Hybrid Working' – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance
• Life Leave, supporting the life events we all experience, leaving your annual leave for rest
• Free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice
• 18 weeks' gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super
• Voluntary super contributions and company matching
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums
• A range of discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services

Rewards & Recognition
We value our employee's experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2025 Winner of Excellence in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Award at the Insurance Business Australia Awards for our program
• 2023 Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards
• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards
• Platinum employer on the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTQI+ workplace inclusion
• Ranked in the top ten in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers 2025 for medium sized program as voted by graduates
• Family Friendly Workplace accredited employer since 2021

Apply now
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QBE recognise the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with access requirements, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our networks please contact us at

Skills:
Communication, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Customer Value Management, Financial Products, Influencing Others, Instructional Design, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Program Evaluations, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Management, Team Management, Time Management

How to Apply:

To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity:

QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.